OneTaste Founder Indicted for Sexual Coercion and Forced Labor
TL;DR
Co-founders of OneTaste, a sexual-wellness company, have been accused of manipulating and abusing participants who joined the company's insular communes. Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz are charged with operating a forced-labor conspiracy, pressuring participants into building their lives around the company's communes, and allegedly going unpaid or being pressured into performing sexual acts for OneTaste investors and clients. The company was accused of being cult-like and abusive in a 2018 Bloomberg report, and the FBI opened an investigation into OneTaste in November 2018. Cherwitz was arrested on Tuesday, while Daedone remained at large.
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