A decide tossed a lawsuit this week that alleged a secret Manhattan cult duped two ladies into turning into unpaid servants.
Manhattan Supreme Court docket Justice Lori Sattler discovered that Stephanie Rosenberg and Marjorie Hochman’s lawsuit in opposition to The Odyssey Research Group – or OSG – confirmed they labored for the alleged cult.
However the ladies didn’t sufficiently show that “they anticipated compensation from [OSG] at any time throughout their membership,” in accordance with Sattler’s determination on Tuesday.
The 2 ladies filed swimsuit in 2021 claiming that the group – run by one-time actress Sharon Gans Horn who had a small position in “Slaughterhouse-5” – signed them up as members in 2005 promising to “assist enhance their lives economically, bodily and spiritually,” the court docket papers alleged.
However as a substitute, the duo needed to pay a hefty $400 in month-to-month dues and had been compelled to work as cooks, cleaners, and recruiters with out pay, the swimsuit claimed.
Two ladies misplaced their swimsuit in opposition to the Odyssey Research Group claiming they had been used as unpaid servants.
The ladies Stephanie Rosenberg and Marjorie Hochman mentioned they paid $400 in month-to-month membership dues and had been additionally anticipated to prepare dinner, clear and recruit members all at no cost.
Horn died resulting from covid issues in 2021 however the group continues to be thriving in accordance with a former member.
In the meantime, Horn and different leaders within the cult had been made “very wealthy” by “mendacity to its members that it was an honor, privilege and a step to self-improvement to serve the leaders of OSG,” the swimsuit claimed.
The ladies additionally accused OSG of systematic bodily and psychological abuse, little one abuse, sexual abuse, personal adoptions, organized marriages and monetary crimes,” the swimsuit alleged.
The pair had been afraid in the event that they left OSG they might be ostracized from the neighborhood that had change into their “whole world,” the submitting claimed.
Rosenberg left OSG in 2019 and Hochman left in 2016, the swimsuit claimed.
Gans died from COVID issues in January 2021 however the group continues to be thriving and assembly twice every week at an workplace on West thirty eighth Road, a former OSG knowledgeable advised The Submit in July.
The group is even increasing having purchased a $925,000 100-acre compound within the Catskills.
Attorneys on either side didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
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