Laura Salafia for BI
In the world of celebrity PR, the cutthroat publicist has become something of a trope. There was Tom Cruise's guardian, Pat Kingsley, who boycotted publications that wronged her. The 1970s power publicist Bobby Zarem's own secretary accused him of throwing telephones and typewriters at her. And the fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone famously told underlings, "If you have to cry, go outside," while filming her Bravo show, "Kell on Earth."