Lizzie Grubman

Elizabeth Stacey Grubman was born in 1971 to Yvette and Allen Grubman, a man whom Newsweek once described as “perhaps the music industry’s wealthiest and most powerful attorney with superstar clients like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, U2 and Sean (Puffy) Combs.” She had brief tours at four New York City private schools, including Horace Mann, Lenox and Dwight (“my social life became a little bit more important than studies,” she said), followed by a single semester at Northeastern University. It was in Boston that Ms. Grubman started promoting nightclubs and the public relations career that she pursued upon returning to New York. Continue reading the main story FROM OUR ADVERTISERS In 1995, she went to work for Nadine Johnson, an established P.R. agent known for her fashionable roster of art world and luxury clients. But the relationship quickly soured. In 1998, Ms. Grubman was one of three influential young female publicists featured on the cover of New York magazine with the headline “Power Girls.” In 2005, she starred in an MTV reality show about her professional life, called “PoweR Girls,” which flopped with critics and viewers, lasting six episodes.