Sexual Wellness Firm Founder Gets Nine Years in Abuse Case (2)

The founder of the sexual wellness company OneTaste was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for her role in a forced-labor scheme involving employees and participants in the firm’s educational courses who were coerced to perform sex acts.

Nicole Daedone, who co-founded OneTaste in 2004, was convicted in June after a jury in Brooklyn, New York, determined she and another OneTaste executive, Rachel Cherwitz, coerced victims — primarily women — into providing unpaid or underpaid menial labor. During the scheme that ran for more than a decade, some were also forced to perform sexual acts with OneTaste investors, federal ...