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Lizzie Grubman pleads guilty to hit-and-run charges

RIVERHEAD, New York (CNN) -- Celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty Friday to a hit-and-run accident outside a Long Island nightclub that left 16 people injured in July 2001, prosecutors said.

Grubman, 31, will be sentenced October 23 and is expected to serve two months in prison, two months of community service and five years of probation for criminally negligent assault and leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury, said officials.

Grubman pleaded not guilty to a third charge of driving under the influence of alcohol because there was no evidence to support the charge, said her lawyer, Stephen Scaring.

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A plea offer was given because of conflicting evidence as to whether Grubman was intoxicated at the time of the incident, Nassau County Assistant District Attorney Joy Watson said in court Friday.

Grubman repeated an earlier apology after the plea hearing. "I just want to say, once again, I'm so sorry for the people that I hurt in the accident and I apologize to their families," she said.

Grubman's insurance company has settled with most of the people who were involved in the accident, Scaring said.

The accident, in which Grubman backed her father's Mercedes SUV into a crowd, took place outside the Conscious Point Inn in the Hamptons beach resort in Long Island.

Grubman is a well-known Manhattan publicist with clients that have included Britney Spears, Jay-z and Wu-Tang Clan.