TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/JARED KUSNER: “Crisis management consultant Risa Heller has dropped Kushner Cos., the family real estate company of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a client, according to two sources familiar with the arrangement.
Heller dropped the client earlier this week after representing the company for just over a year and a half. That’s longer than many of her predecessors working in media relations with Charlie Kushner, Jared’s father and the family patriarch, have lasted in a job representing a famously acerbic boss and convicted felon.
A new spokesman for Kushner Companies, however, disputed that account and said the company decided to replace Heller this week. Heller declined to comment.
The split came amid widespread outrage over Trump’s response to neo-Nazi and white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Heller’s work with a real estate client was not political — but it bled into that realm after the election, when she served as a spokeswoman for Jared Kushner, before he joined the White House, and then for his wife, Ivanka Trump…
Her departure from Kushner Companies comes as the real estate company is facing a PR crisis on multiple fronts. The Baltimore Sun reported this week that the company used judges to order the arrest of tenants who hadn’t paid their debt.
Meanwhile, the Chinese company Anbang Insurance Group has recently pulled out of negotiations to redevelop Kushner’s flagship Manhattan skyscraper, 666 Fifth Avenue.”
-Annie Karni, “New York PR maven Risa Heller drops Kushner Cos.,” Politco, Aug. 23, 2017 07:36pm