Lloyd Bennett Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast, an American news reporting and opinion website focusing on politics and pop culture. He is also a frequent contributor to New York. He was a gossip columnist for New York Daily News before he left on October 9, 2006, and wrote a fortnightly column for Portfolio.com, the web site of Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine, and was a contributing editor for Portfolio Magazine until it shut down in April 2009.^[1]

Early life

Grove was born in California and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. He completed his BA in English at Yale University. While at Yale, Grove had a summer job as an assistant for a show business press agent and reported for the Yale Daily News.^[2]

Career

He has written for the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar.^[3]

Since September 2003, Grove has written a weekday column called Lloyd Grove's Lowdown for the New York Daily News.

He has obtained notoriety for his articles on the following:^[2]

• US President George W. Bush's daughter's underage drinking
• Actors Tim Robbins' and Susan Sarandon's political influences
• Businessman Taki Theodoracopulos's anti-Israel joke
• Congressman Jim Moran settling a fight between two girlfriends
• Outgoing administration's vandalism of Bush White House^[4]
• Olbermann's Worst Person of The World for March 13, 2006^{[citation needed]}