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Poor Lizzie Grubman. Her dream of slowing down from the party
scene was cruelly dashed after what her spokesperson Howard
Rubenstein calls the "horrible accident."
Defends Grubman. |
Gossip columnist Cindy Adams revealed that Grubman was tired
of the constant nightlife.
The 30-year-old publicist yearned to "get off the celebrity
carousel," wrote Adams on July 9. She wanted to relax
a little by doing corporate work.
Her alleged "hit and run" episode has been a godsend
to the New York media during the slow days of summer.
The Grubman mess also is a black eye for PR.
Class
warfare
The New York Daily News and the New York Post
have adopted "class warfare" themes in their coverage.
The more elitist New York Times sniffs about "class
divisions."
Grubman, to the tabloids, is a pampered Manhattan princess.
She's hopping mad after a lowly bouncer at the Conscience
Point Inn tells her to move her SUV from the fire lane.
Liz Smith enjoyed recent
Grubman event. |
Grubman allegedly doesn't want to deal with a "white
trash" bouncer, who is a 31-year-old gym teacher. She
wants a "higher authority" to tell her to move.
Lizzie, who says she accidentally put the SUV in reverse,
then injures the bouncer and 15 others.
A distraught Grubman leaves the scene with friends after
waiting a certain period. She gives her entertainment lawyer
father a call. Allen Grubman rouses his lawyer at 2 a.m. to
meet with Lizzie.
The cops arrive and Lizzie–as is her right–refuses
to take a Breathalyzer test. The cops return to the scene
of the accident to interview witnesses. They then determine
Grubman was the driver. The cops contact Grubman lawyer, Ed
Burke. He asks if it's okay to bring Lizzie to the lock-up
on Sunday morning and they agree.
That's "Hamptons Justice," for you, editorialized
the Post on July 11.
Both the News and Post have received heavy feedback from
their Grubman coverage.
"Horror in the Hamptons" is how the News, on its
website, banners its Grubman coverage.
PR's reputation
is hurt by Grubman
Grubman has been portrayed in the media as one of the most
powerful people in PR.
'Class warfare' |
She has been called a "PR maven," "publicity
princess," "PR whiz," "PR dynamo"
and "superflak."
If the so-called best and the brightest of the profession
does wrong, everybody in PR gets tainted.
She is excellent at what she does. That is throwing parties,
and making sure that "A-list" people show up.
Liz Smith recently gushed about an event put together by Lizzie
and her partner Peggy Siegal.
She praised Lizzie Grubman/Peggy Siegal PR as a "dynamic
organizing PR firm" for putting together a Time Warner
party at Le Cirque for the screening of the movie "James
Dean" that airs Aug. 5 on TNT.
Wrote Smith: "Is hype and promotion a bad thing? I say
not when it is accompanied by high-quality product. Then the
hype oils the way for something of quality to reach the public."
As the columnist sat at an elegant table "eating things
she didn't even know existed while growing up in Texas,"
Smith decided, "I'm all for hype. At least this time!"
Adams claims Lizzie Grubman/Peggy Siegal PR has not been hurt
by the Grubman incident.
Its publicists, according to Adams, have been reassuring
clients that it's business as usual despite the absence of
Lizzie. Grubman is facing seven counts of assault and reckless
endangerment.
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