Anyone in New York back in the summer of 2001 probably remembers Lizzy Grubman. She was the nasty publicist who crashed her big nasty SUV -- possibly intentionally -- into a crowd of people waiting to get into a nightclub in the Hamptons after being told to move. There was all kinds of media attention, because she was a spoiled-brat rich kid who nearly killed some people in a hissy fit about being asked to move. Oh, and of course she was drunk at the time. It was a great class-warfare kind of story for a while, with allegations of lenient treatment by the authorities and what-not, and she ended up serving 60 days in jail.
Well, for two or three weeks here in BA we've had a similar story dominating the local "society" news. This time it's a male named Gaby Alvarez, but just like Lizzy Grubman, he's an upper-class, party-boy in his 30's, not really all that well-known by the general public, but apparently well-known to the fancy people. Again it happened near the upper-class beach retreat, this one Punta del Este in Uruguay. But in this case is was an open-road accident in which two people died. And the guy was coked-up and drunk, and this (I think, given my spanish limitations) was clearly determined by the authorities. And, maybe because it took place in Uruguay and not in Argentina, the rich kid is still in jail.
Word on the TV news right now -- right now -- is that Gaby is depressed, and afraid for his life in an Uruguay prison. The news is switching between exterior shots of the prision, pictures of the wreckage on the highway, and pictures of rich fancy people, presumably his friends and family. There's also a little bit of a Paris Hilton media circus to it -- I don't think Lizzy Grubman got this much publicity.
Somehow Rich Kids getting into trouble makes great news everywhere. Strange world.
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