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The Grubmans
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Grubman (born January 30, 1971) is an American
publicist. She is the daughter of entertainment lawyer, Allen and
Yvette Grubman.
Grubman is a publicist for Britney Spears, Jay-Z and the
Backstreet Boys. The 2005 reality show Power Girls on MTV centered
around a group of young publicists working for Grubman's PR firm.
The title is a reference to a 1998 cover story in New York magazine,
that profiled Grubman and several of her rivals, noting that "Lizzie
was clearly the most powerful girl of all."
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The Beautiful People
Here Ms Grubman is seen with Carmine Gotti, son of famous
Jewish gangster John Gotti.
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A Party Girl
A fixture around the
Hamptons,
and believing her own publicity, she felt herself royalty.
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Lizzie Hit 16 People With Her SUV
On July 7, 2001,
Grubman drove her SUV into a crowd of people
outside a nightclub in the
Hamptons,
injuring 16 people. After being asked by security guards to remove
her Mercedes from a fire lane, she rammed the vehicle into the
crowd, left the scene, and was later charged in a 26-count
indictment, for felony crimes including second-degree assault,
driving while intoxicated, and reckless endangerment. .
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Police Criticized
The police did nothing for hours and she received "special
treatment", who allowed her to surrender at a police station
with a lawyer, after having a few hours to pull herself
together. The police did not perform a Breathalyzer test,
despite allegations that she was intoxicated, and
high on drugs, at the time of
the incident.
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The Legal Team And Trial
There was an apprehension of going to trial in Suffolk County
where blue collar crowd would find Grubman, her lawyers, her PR
man Rosenberg, and her cadre of oily pretentious friends rather
repugnant. Grubman had been facing up to eight years in prison,
but only served 37 days in jail and received five year's
probation after reaching a plea bargain.
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The Princess Leaves The Courtroom
The trial garnered widespread media coverage because of what
Richard Johnson, editor of the New York Post's Page 6, referred to
as "the overreaching drama of class warfare." Grubman was alleged to
have made an inflammatory statement before striking her victims with
her vehicle: "Fuck you, white trash", a Grubman has claimed that the
SUV incident was an accident. An expert hired by the plaintiffs in a
civil case against her who reconstructed the accident based on data
from the car's "black box" concluded that in his view her actions
were likely intentional.
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Lizzie Grubman Marries
Grubman attended New York City prep schools Horace Mann School,
Lenox School and Dwight School. She graduated from Northeastern
University. In 1995, she married Eric Gatoff, an associate at her
father's law firm. She married Chris Stern on March 17, 2006, and
gave birth to their first child, a son named Harrison Irving Stern,
on December 12, 2006.
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