The alleged "Mansion Madam" is in the medical unit of the Gwinnett County jail where her attorney said she's suffering from depression.

Lisa Ann Taylor had to miss her first court appearance Sunday after she was charged Friday with possessing illicit and prescription drugs.

"She's not feeling good," said her attorney, Max Richardson. "She's in a depressed state. She's looking at losing her home. She has all these charges against her, so she's not doing well right now."

Taylor's close friend, Marlene Gaskill, agreed. She tried to visit Taylor on Sunday.

"I know her as a girl right now who's very troubled and desperate," Gaskill said.

Taylor first made headlines earlier this year when she was arrested for running a brothel from her Sugarloaf Country Club home.

She was out on bond on prostitution charges when she was arrested, again, late Friday night during a traffic stop on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard.

Her attorney said Taylor was the passenger in a friend's car that was stopped by police for weaving, but Taylor's the one who was charged after police allegedly found a small amount of cocaine and prescription drugs, including Xanex and Valium.

"Police are taking the position that she didn't have prescriptions on her person at the time she was arrested, but we have prescriptions for those medications," Richardson said.

Richardson tried to convince a magistrate judge to set bond for his client on Sunday. But Magistrate Judge James Argo refused and told Richardson he'll have to wait to make his case for bond during Taylor's preliminary hearing on October 3.

Richardson then raised another issues, an unusual one.

He asked that jail staff be barred from cutting Taylor's long hair, even though he said the sheriff's department doesn't usually allow inmates to keep hair extensions.

"Being beautiful is having beautiful, floaty hair, and that's part of her, that's part of Lisa," Richardson said. "Remove her hair and you take a whole lot away from her opportunity to generate income, and that was my argument."

He won that argument.

Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said he plans to file a motion on Monday to request that Taylor's bond in the prostitution case be revoked because of the new drug charges.

That would keep her behind bars until her prostitution trial in February.

Taylor and her co-defendant Nicole Probert have pleaded not guilty in that case.