A former facilitator for embattled “orgasm cult” One Taste claims her attorney tried to “manipulate” her “to assume the role of a crime victim” amid a federal probe of the company, she said in a lawsuit.
Alisha Price believes lawyer Neil Glazer ignored her belief that nothing criminal had gone on at the Californa-based sexual wellness company, which claims to teach “orgasmic meditation” in which women have their genitals stroked for 15 minutes.
Glazer, Price alleged, was just looking to file a big bucks lawsuit in her name against One Taste, just like he did for more than 80 victims of the Nxvim sex cult.
“It’s not right what Neil’s doing,” she told The Post.
One Taste leaders Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone were arrested in June 2023, accused of grooming members into having sex with investors and facing conspiracy to commit forced labor charges in Brooklyn Federal Court. The pair have pleaded not guilty and are slated to go on trial in January.
Price, 49, served as an employee and teacher for One Taste until 2013, and was shocked in April 2021 when FBI agents showed up at her parent’s Florida home, warning if she didn’t turn up to testify before a New York City grand jury she would be arrested, Price recalled to The Post.
“My frame of reference was what have I seen on ‘Law & Order,'” she said. “I left for personal reasons not because I believed anything criminal was happening.”
Based on their questions, Price asked the agents, “Do you think One Taste is like Nxivm?” referring to the twisted sex-slave cult which branded victims and forced them to sleep with founder Keith Raniere.
“They said, ‘Yeah,’ and I proceeded to set them straight,” she said, telling the agents, ‘No, that is not correct.’ “
Unwilling to participate or cast herself as a crime victim, Price later hired Pennsylvania-based Glazer, who repped dozens of Nxivm victims.
Glazer “viewed [her] as a target rather than a witness,” she said in a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.
Glazer and his Philadelphia-based firm “betrayed their own client and collaborated with the FBI against her,” Price said in the litigation, in which she seeks unspecified damages.
Glazer did not respond to a message seeking comment.