



An actor best known for playing a young Superman’s friend has been granted bail while fighting charges that she helped recruit women into a cult-like group.

A federal judge in Brooklyn agreed on Tuesday to release Allison Mack on $5m bond and place her under home detention in California. She will be living with her parents.

She has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking. Prosecutors say she worked as a slave “master” and recruited women to a group led by a man who sold himself as a self-improvement guru to the stars.

Mack starred in the CW network’s Smallville, a show about the early life of Superman that ended in 2011. Prosecutors say she helped recruit sex slaves for leader Keith Raniere and his group called Nxivm (NEHK’-see-uhm).

Raniere also denies wrongdoing.