Alleged sex cult leader faints in court when asked if Michael Avenatti is one of her lawyers...
Imagine being a leader of an abusive sex cult.... what would be so horrible that it makes being the leader of an abusive sex cult pale in comparison.
Clare Bronfman faints in Nxivm hearing when asked if she hired Michael Avenatti
https://nypost.com/2019/03/27/clare...ial-when-asked-if-she-hired-michael-avenatti/
Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman collapsed in court Wednesday following a discussion with the judge about whether embattled lawyer Michael Avenatti had joined her defense team.
Bronfman was in Brooklyn federal court for a hearing in
the Nxivm sex-cult racketeering case when Judge Nicholas Garaufis said he’d been told “that she had an additional attorney who was negotiating with the government.”
“Did she retain Mr. Avenatti to represent her in this case, yes or no?” Garaufis asked Donna Newman, one of Bronfman’s lawyers.
The question came just two days after Avenatti was
busted in Manhattan on charges he tried to extort more than $20 million with the help of a co-conspirator,
identified by several news outlets as celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos, who Bronfman hired late last month.
Rather than answer, Newman requested a sidebar with the judge, and Bronfman joined more than a half-dozen lawyers for a private, 10-minute discussion next to Garaufis’ bench.
On her way back, Bronfman — whose face appeared yellowish — stumbled and fell forward, but broke her fall by planting her hands on the defense table.
One of her lawyers grabbed her and helped her to a chair, where she drank some water while courtroom personnel summoned an ambulance.
A short time later, EMTs appeared with a stretcher, and Bronfman climbed on and was wheeled into a nearby conference room.
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