Aerin Rebecca Lauder Zinterhofer (born April 23, 1970) is an American

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heiress and businesswoman.

Family and education

Lauder is the daughter of Jo Carole Lauder (née Knopf) and

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. Her father served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria under President

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, and is the president of the

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. She is the granddaughter of Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, the cofounders of the cosmetics company Estée Lauder Companies. She has one sister, Jane Lauder Warsh. Lauder graduated from

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. She worked at the family company during and after college. She then studied at the

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Career

Lauder is the style and image director for the Estée Lauder Companies and has her own cosmetic, perfume, fashion, and furniture line named AERIN. She also has a furniture and accessories collection. She owns 16 million shares in the Estée Lauder Companies making her worth $2.7 billion as of 2019 and ranking her 319 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.

Personal life

In 1996, Lauder married

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in a Jewish ceremony in Wainscott,

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. Zinterhofer is an investment banker, the co-founder of the private equity firm

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and the former co-head of media and telecommunications investing at

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. The couple lives in

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and East Hampton,

with their two sons. She also has a home in

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Works and publications

* Lauder, Aerin, Christine Pittle, and Simon Upton. ''Beauty at Home.'' New York: Clarkson Potter, 2013. * Smith, Clinton Ross, and Aerin Lauder. ''Veranda: The Romance of Flowers.'' 2015. Foreword by Lauder. * Lauder, Aerin. ''Aspen Style.'' New York:

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, 2017. * Lauder, Aerin. ''Palm Beach.'' New York:

, 2019.

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