AP: Public relations impresario and Bensonhurst native Howard Rubenstein dies at 88
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK— Brooklyn-born public relations veteran Howard Rubenstein, who for decades polished and protected the images of New York celebrities and power brokers from George Steinbrenner to Donald Trump, has died. He was 88.
Rubenstein died Tuesday at home “in peace and in no pain,” his son Steven Rubenstein wrote on the website of the firm that bears the family’s name. No cause of death was given.