Lizzie Grubman= infamous PR girl!

I recently added a Public Relations minor to accompany my Media Studies major and I felt that it was necceseary to do some research about the PR industry. While looking for the most successful firms and publisits I came across Lizzie Grubman. I remembered that she was infamous for being a major ball-buster in the industry and that she was infamous for going to jail.

Here is the low-down:

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 around a group of young publicists working for Grubman's PR firm.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 backed the vehicle into the crowd and was later charged in a 26-count indictment, for felony crimes including second-degree assault, driving while intoxicated, and reckless endangerment.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.
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 Posts 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".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.

Not a very good role model, eh? Lizzie Grubman proves that if you have good PR skills you can get yourself out of anything! Right?