ALBANY, N.Y. – Allison Mack, the actress who spent years as a key member of the cult-like NXIVM organization, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for her role in a master-slave group whose followers were branded.

Mack, 38, pleaded guilty in April 2019 to felony counts of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy for her actions in a master-slave group within NXIVM, the Albany self-help group led by since-convicted leader Keith Raniere, 60, known by his followers as “Vanguard.”

The actress, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan on the CW’s “Smallville,” was a top-line master in the all-women subgroup known as DOS or “The Vow,” in which “slaves” were branded with Raniere’s initials on their