A court in the US sentenced the former Brazilian model and US-based wellness influencer, Kat Torres, to eight years in prison for human trafficking and slavery of women.
An FBI investigation earlier found two women living with Torres having gone missing in 2022.
The women alleged that Torres had trafficked and enslaved them, while narrating their experience of living with the US-based influencer.
The women told BBC that they were attracted by her success of emerging from impoverished Brazilian neighbourhood to be partying with Hollywood stars and rumoured to be dating actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Torres, a fixture on Brazilian TV, claimed to make predictions using her spiritual powers
The woman named Ana told BBC that everything about Torres was credible as ‘She was on the cover of magazines. She was seen with famous people such as Leonardo DiCaprio.’
Meanwhile, BBC reported Torres’ former flatmate, who shared a home with her in New York, as saying that Hollywood friends of Torres introduced her to a hallucinogenic drug called ayahuasca.