Elizabeth "Lizzie" Grubman (born January 30, 1971) is an American publicist. She is the daughter of entertainment lawyer, Allen Grubman, and his wife, the late Yvette 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 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."
On July 17, 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. 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.
