Celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman offered a tearful apology in front of reporters, but New York tabloids speculated that the sobs were orchestrated by her PR counsel, Dan Klores Communications, which specializes in "crisis communications" for clients embroiled in scandals. Grubman is expected to stand trial and faces up to eight years in jail for an incident last year in which she threw a tantrum [3] and backed her Mercedes SUV into a crowd [4] outside a Hamptons nightspot, injuring 16 people.