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Tara Reid Ready to Testify

Tara Reid's next performance is going to be in court.

The American Pie star says she's ready to testify before a grand jury this week about her night partying with Manhattan celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman, just hours before Grubman slammed her Mercedes SUV into a crowd of clubgoers, seriously injuring 16 people.

"Tara has fully intended at every moment to cooperate with police...and will be glad to get this over with," says publicist Daniele Cardelia. "Her lawyers are taking care of arranging everything and she's voluntarily coming in. No subpoena."

Reid, 26, apparently plans to tell the grand jury that she was rubbing elbows with Grubman at a lavish party thrown by designer Alex von Furstenberg at his Southhampton home, but did not witness Grubman abusing any substances.

"She didn't see [Grubman] drinking or doing any drugs," Reid's attorney, Roy Breslow, tells the Associated Press. "Tara was hungry, so she was eating in the kitchen most of the time."

Investigators have been wanting to question Reid for some time now to try and find out what Grubman had in her system on July 7 when, after a heated argument with some bouncers, plowed her SUV into a crowd at the Conscience Point Inn, a Hamptons hot spot. After the accident, Grubman was whisked away by friends before police could test her for drugs and alcohol.

Reid's camp hopes her testimony will finally distance the starlet from Grubman's PR nightmare. "The whole thing is ridiculous," Reid said during an appearance two weeks ago on Howard Stern's radio show. "They're just trying to throw a celebrity's name involved in it. I wasn't in the car. I wasn't with her at [Conscience Point]. I was never at the club...I had nothing to do with the whole thing...I can add nothing."

The 30-year-old Grubman, whose celebrity clientele includes the likes of Reid, Britney Spears and rapper Jay-Z, has been unable to spin herself out of the headlines since the now-infamous incident.

She has been charged with six counts, including assault, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. After posting $25,000 bail, she apologized to the victims and claimed it was an accident.

That wasn't good enough for several of the victims, who have already filed multimillion-dollar lawsuits against Grubman, the cofounder of one of Manhattan's biggest publicity firms, Lizzie Grubman and Peggy Siegel Public Relations, which organizes glitzy premieres and other star-studded events. She's also the daughter of high-powered Manhattan celebrity attorney Allen Grubman, who was named in several of the victims' suits.

Grubman's attorney says his client is innocent of all charges.

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