Tinsley is hoping she will be able to rebrand herself with her appearance on the popular reality show

Bravo meanwhile will not allow Tinsley to walk the red carpet at events with the other women from Housewives in order to keep her

The family of Tinsley Mortimer's ex-boyfriend Nico Fanjul is doing everything they can to keep the socialite from speaking about her troubled relationship with the billionaire heir on the new season of Real Housewives of New York.

A source tells DailyMail.com: 'The Fanjuls are exploring legal action to keep Tinsley quiet now that she will be appearing on the new season of the show and talking about her relationship in depth.'

Tinsley is reportedly hoping to rebrand herself on the show said the source, and as such will not be holding back in sharing the details of the alleged abuse that occurred while she was dating Fanjul.

The source added that Tinsley believes it was the alleged abuse that led to her drinking at that time.

Bravo meanwhile is trying to keep the news that Tinsley has joined the show a secret by advising her to stop walking red carpets at events with the other women a source told DailyMail.com.

Bravo did not respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.

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Busy bee: Tinsley Mortimer has been busy filming the new season of Real Housewives of New York (l to r: Carole Radziwill, Avery and Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, Dorinda Medley and Mortimer last week in NYC)

Tinsley has been busy filming the hit Bravo series for the past few months, and living with Sonja Morgan.

The socialite has taken up on the third floor of Sonja's townhouse while her daughter Quinn is away at school said a source.

She was on hand last week when the ladies appeared at a fundraiser for the Animal Ashram Foundation held at the home of power publicist R. Couri Hay.

The event was hosted by Housewives alum Ramona Singer and actress Leesa Rowland and catered by socialite Cornelia Guest, who constructed a vegan menu with truffles from Urbani that she paired with Dom Ruinart Champagne and Whispering Angel Rosé.

Mortimer, 41, spent two and a half hours in the Palm Beach County Jail in April after police received a phone call about an 'unwanted guest' at the home of Fanjul and arrived to find Mortimer 'crying and screaming irrationally stating that her boyfriend … was inside the house with another woman and she only wanted to retrieve her purse from inside.'

Fanjul, whose father Alex and uncles are worth an estimated $30billion thanks to their control a vast sugar and real estate empire, told police that he and Mortimer were not dating and that he did not have her purse.

Tinely (above in Aoril mugshot) will reportedly be talking in depth about her relationship with billionaire Nico Fanjul

Mortimer was also forced to pose for a mugshot after the incident, which showed the often smiling and heavily made up society queen frowning and with little makeup.

The arrest marked a tragic fall from grace for Mortimer, who has largely avoided the limelight ever since moving to Palm Beach in 2012 shortly after her divorce from husband Robert Mortimer, who is known as Topper.

She had also been warned about trespassing at the same residence in October after authorities documented five incidents involving Mortimer on the property according to the police report, which was obtained by the Palm Beach Daily News.

Mortimer called the authorities just before her arrest, reaching out before the incident to ask for a civil standby when she went to retrieve some of her items from the home.

Mortimer was one of the biggest names on the Manhattan society scene in the early and mid aughts, having moved to the city to attend college at Columbia where she earned a degree in art history.

She transferred from to the prestigious Ivy League university from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in order to be closer to Topper.

Mortimer then scored the job a million girls would kill for when she began working as a beauty assistant at Vogue straight out of school.

From there, Mortimer moved into public relations, joining the team at Harrison and Shriftman where she worked as an event planner.

Avoid the spotlight: Bravo meanwhile will not allow Tinsley to walk the red carpet at events with the other women from Housewives in order to keep her appearance a surprise (Tinsley above in 2006 with Ivanka trump)

Ex: Tinsley is hoping she will be able to rebrand herself with her appearance on the popular reality show (above in 2007 with ex-husband Topper Mortimer)

Mortimer's big moment came around 2006 when the public and press took a new interest in the city's young socialites, who at the time included Byrdie Bell, Olivia Palermo, Fabiola Beracasa, Amanda Hearst, and Lauren Santo Domingo (nee Davis) to name just a few.

There was even a website dedicated to ranking the women called Socialite Rank.

None of these women were covered more than Mortimer however, and she soon leveraged her newfound fame to launch a line of handbags with Samantha Thavasa and a clothing line, Riccime by Tinsley Mortimer, which were both available in Japan.

Her former Vogue co-worker Plum Sykes also included a character that was loosely based on her in her 2004 novel Bergdorf Blondes.

At the same time Mortimer began to command as much as $10,000 to host an event and was named a brand ambassador for Dior, which allowed her to launch her own lip gloss for the high fashion house.

She called the shade Tinsley Pink.

Mortimer was also frequently name dropped on the show Gossip Girl, which detailed the lives of a group of wealthy private school kids in New York City. She later appeared in a cameo role on the show's second-season premiere.

In 2010, the same network that aired Gossip Girl, the CW, gave Mortimer her own reality series called High Society.

The show followed Mortimer as she posed for photo shoots, picked out clothes and hopped from party to party in the Big Apple.

It also starred Mortimer's sister Dabney Mercer, Social Life editor Devorah Rose and Paul Johnson Calderon.

The show was not a hit with critics or viewers however, leading to its cancellation after eight episodes and much public ridicule for Mortimer.

At the same time, Mortimer's marriage to Topper, her high school sweetheart, had come to an end.

Keeping quiet: Fanjul's family is now reportedly looking into ways to keep Tinsley quiet about the relationship a source tells DailyMail.com (Tinsley and Nico above in photos taken after a 2013 incident between the two)

Mortimer, who grew up in Richmond, Virginia, met Topper while the two attended the prestigious Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.

The two eloped when they were just 18, but Mortimer's parents - real estate investor George and interior designer Dale - forced her to annul the marriage. They wed again in May 2002 in Mortimer's hometown of Richmond.

Reports that the two had split began to circulate in early 2009 and the pair divorced a year later.

There were also allegations that Mortimer had begun a relationship with a member of German royalty, Prince Casimir Wittgenstein-Sayn, while still married to Topper.

Topper is heir to the Standard Oil fortune thanks to his grandfather Henry Morgan Tilford, who was a president at the company. His family can trace their routes back to John Jay, author of the Federalist Papers.

He is the son of magazine editor Senga Mortimer and brother of designer Minnie Mortimer, who is married to Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan.

Since his split from Mortimer, the notoriously press shy hedge fund manager has had relationships with Vogue staffer Valerie Boster and shoe designer Tabitha Simmons.

He and Simmons recently became engaged.

Mortimer moved down to Palm Beach soon after she and her ex finalized their divorce, and has dated former American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis and Prince Lorenzo Borghese, who was on the ninth season of The Bachelor.

She has released her first book shortly after moving to Florida, Southern Charm. It tells the story of a girl from down South who moves to Manhattan and quickly becomes an 'It Girl.'