Clare Bronfman, an heiress to a Seagram wine fortune, fainted Wednesday in sovereign justice in New York City after a decider asked if she was being personally represented by embattled luminary counsel Michael Avenatti in a box where she is charged with income laundering and temperament burglary involving a supposed sex-cult NXIVM.

After Bronfman’s fainting spell, it was suggested in open justice that Avenatti had, in fact, final week met with sovereign prosecutors in Brooklyn about her case, according to a associating source. The sum of that assembly were not disclosed.

With him during that sitdown was a counsel famous to be representing Bronfman, associate luminary counsel Mark Geragos, who has been identified as an supposed co-conspirator of Avenatti’s in a supposed intrigue to extract sneaker hulk Nike, a prosecutor told a decider in a case. Geragos has not been criminally charged with Avenatti.

Bronfman’s apparent fall in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn came dual days after Avenatti was indicted by sovereign prosecutors in Manhattan and Los Angeles of perplexing to extract Nike for adult to $25 million, defrauding a customer out of a authorised settlement, and defrauding a bank by charity a lender fraudulent income taxation returns.

The discussion in Brooklyn was called to apprise Bronfman of a probable conflicts her lawyers would have in representing her in her possess rapist case, given their intensity authorised bearing to a same Justice Department that is prosecuting her. While Geragos has filed an coming in Bronfman’s box as her lawyer, Avenatti has not — notwithstanding assembly with prosecutors about her.

NXIVM’s supporters have pronounced it was a self-help organisation that wanted to change a universe for a better, though sovereign prosecutors explain it was indeed an bootleg pyramid intrigue that funneled income to a leaders and offering a devout leader, Keith Raniere, entrance to sex slaves.

Bronfman is a daughter of a late Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman. She is giveaway on $100 million bond.

Judge Nicholas Garaufis, a source told CNBC, was seeking Bronfman “about Avenatti” when one of her lawyers objected to a line of questioning. The decider afterwards hold a sidebar discussion with lawyers, out of reach of reporters and others in a courtroom.

“The decider was really dissapoint since he had not been sensitive that she had defended Avenatti,” that was not disclosed to a decider final week before he hold another discussion to plead probable conflicts of seductiveness that could outcome from Bronfman appropriation a profession costs of her co-defendants, a source said.

“It seemed that a decider was really heated,” a source said.

After a sidebar ended, a decider called a five-minute adjournment.

As Bronfman was walking behind toward a back of a courtroom, “she seemed to be wobbling on her feet, and she started to collapse, and her profession symbol Geragos held her from behind,” a source said.

“She didn’t strike a floor, her knees start buckling,” a source said. “She was really pale.”

Emergency medical technicians from a New York Fire Department and other medical workers went to a justice in response. But Bronfman declined to go to a hospital. The discussion in a box was continued until Thursday.

While Geragos is not charged with Avenatti, he has been identified as a chairman who prosecutors in justice papers explain acted as a co-conspirator in Avenatti’s supposed intrigue to corruption Nike in a past week by melancholy to arrangement deleterious information about a sneaker giant.

Geragos refused to answer questions about his supposed purpose as a co-conspirator of Avenatti.

Avenatti did not immediately lapse a ask for criticism from CNBC.

Avenatti has pronounced he will be vindicated in a rapist cases he faces.

He gained widespread courtesy in a past year for representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits opposite President Donald Trump, whose personal counsel Michael Cohen had paid her $130,000 in hush income to keep her still about an supposed event with Trump. The boss denies carrying sex with her.

Daniels recently severed ties with Avenatti.