Newsmakers

Newsweek, November, 2002 by David Gates; Jeff Giles

Lizzie: Driving While Arrogant

Last week publicist Lizzie Grubman, who did damage control for such loose cannons as Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, began a 60-day stay in eastern Long Island's least desirable vacation spot, the Suffolk County Jail. The hit her image has taken will last longer. Anybody could back into a crowd outside a Southampton nightclub, as she did in July 2001--locals must be tempted all the time--but to do it in a Mercedes SUV seemed to lack the common touch. And Grubman would surely have advised a client not to call club employees "white trash."

It may seem ironic that Grubman enlisted her PR people, including such handlers of the high and mighty as Dan Klores. But would a neurosurgeon hold a mirror and have at herself with a scalpel? Last week Grubman...

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