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Highfields, an investment firm started by Richard Grubman and former Harvard Management Company (HMC) investor Jonathan S. Jacobson, received an initial investment of $500 million from the University...
...Lizzie Was Doing Drugs,” booms the headline of a New York Daily news cover. It originally referred to scandal-ridden socialite Lizzie Grubman, but here, framed and prominently displayed on a shelf in Wurtzel’s apartment, the joke needs no explanation...
...mysteries surround the incident of July 7. First, is it possible that, as police allege, Grubman intentionally backed her SUV into a line of people, then left the scene as victims bled and moaned for help? A more interesting question is, Why have so many people responded to the tragedy with an unabashed victory dance on her figurative grave? Answering the second question requires understanding the Hamptons, a grand but tortured resort area just 100 miles outside New York City that attracts a flashy spectrum of celebrities, from Alec Baldwin to Tommy Hilfiger to Martha Stewart. It's a place...
...basic facts of the "Grubman event," as a local termed it, do not make good sense. Surely Grubman, 30, one of the latest in a flashy new breed of New York public relations experts, who has represented the likes of Sean Combs, Britney Spears and America Online, was not so professionally suicidal as to intentionally mow down well-heeled patrons at the Conscience Point Inn, a nightclub she represents. But if Grubman did not mean to hurt anyone, if she just failed to wrestle the powerful Mercedes-Benz SUV into compliance (as her lawyers contend), then how to explain...
...constant prediction over the past decade. But the Hamptons is not only famous for attracting people who try to outdo each other in opulence; it also draws people who love to complain about a place they can't stop visiting. Manhattan ad exec Neilan Tyree, 42, says the Grubman fiasco shows how unpleasant the Hamptons has become since his youthful summers. It is now, he says, like "Los Angeles without a job. Greenwich, Connecticut, on crystal meth." Of course, he will be there this weekend, but, he says, "I'm practically hyperventilating at the thought...