Founder of ‘orgasmic meditation’ company gets nine years in prison in forced labor conspiracy

Nicole Daedone, co-founder of OneTaste Inc, also ordered to forfeit $12m, and seven victims were awarded restitution The leader of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for a scheme that a judge said exploited vulnerable women and coerced them into performing sex acts with the company’s clients and investors. Nicole Daedone, co-founder of OneTaste Inc, was also ordered to forfeit $12m, and seven victims were awarded roughly $890,000 in restitution, federal prosecutors said. “Coercion disguised as wellness or empowerment is still exploitation and it is a crime that causes harm to vulnerable victims,” said Joseph Nocella, US attorney for the eastern district of New York, in a statement. Daedone declined to speak in federal court in Brooklyn on Monday. But one victim told the judge that she had believed in Daedone’s “so-called feminist mission” only to be “left with significant financial damages and emotional harm”, the Daily News reports. “In reality, I fell into Nicole’s trap,” the woman said, according to the newspaper. “I was the perfect target.” Diane Gujarati, the U

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