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lizzie grubman
Grubman is well-known as a publicist for celebrities, founding her own company in 1996, and has represented Britney Spears, Jay-Z and the Backstreet Boys.The 2005 reality show PoweR Girls on MTV centered on 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."

Grubman attended the New York City prep schools Horace Mann, Lenox and Dwight. She attended Northeastern University and subsequently dropped out before graduating, which she stated on the May 16, 2011 season premiere of the Real Housewives of New Jersey.  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. In early September 2008, Grubman confirmed that she was pregnant with twins.On January 22, 2009, Grubman gave birth to son Jack Alexander Stern, two months before his scheduled due date. It is unknown whether she miscarried the other child or reports that she was pregnant with twins were false. According to The New York Post on Decemeber 29, 2010, Lizzie Grubman and Chris Stern have separated and have been living apart, though no divorce papers have been filed.
[edit] 2001 Felonious Attack with the SUV

On July 7, 2001, after being asked by security guards to remove her Mercedes from a fire lane,in a fit of rage Grubman drove her SUV into a crowd of people outside a nightclub in the Hamptons. She injured 16 people and was later charged in a 26-count indictment with felony crimes including second-degree assault, driving while intoxicated, and reckless endangerment. Grubman faced up to eight years in prison, but she served thirty-seven days in jail and received five years' probation after reaching a plea bargain.

The trial garnered widespread media coverage not because of the particular circumstances of the crash but because of what Richard Johnson, editor of the New York Post's Page Six, 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." Later, allegations arose that she received "special treatment"at the hands of police, who did not perform a Breathalyzer test despite allegations (and later, criminal charges) that she was intoxicated at the time of the incident

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" stated that in his view her actions were likely intentional.