The Lauder family is an American billionaire family. It owes its initial fame to
Estée Lauder (1908–2004), who with her husband Joseph H. Lauder, made a fortune via her eponymous cosmetics business,
The Estée Lauder Companies
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. ( ; stylized as ESTĒE LAUDER) is an American multinational cosmetics company, a manufacturer and marketer of makeup, skincare, fragrance and hair care products, based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is ...
, during the 20th century.
The family is of
Hungarian Jewish
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived i ...
and
Czech Jewish
The history of the Jews in the Czech lands, which include the modern Czech Republic as well as Bohemia, Czech Silesia and Moravia, goes back many centuries. There is evidence that Jews have lived in Moravia and Bohemia since as early as the 10 ...
ancestry.
As of December 2022 the family net worth is estimated at $33 billion.
Family tree
Lauder
Some of the family members include:
''Please note capitalization of surnames is typically used in genealogy trees''
* William LAUTER. Married to Lillian.
** Joseph H. LAUDER (né LAUTER). Born: 26 Dec 1902. Married: 15 Jan 1930. Divorced: 11 Apr 1939. Remarried: 7 Dec 1942. Died: Jan 1983. Married to
Josephine Esther "Estée" MENTZER. Born: 1 Jul 1908,
Corona
Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:
* Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star
* Corona (beer), a Mexican beer
* Corona, informal term for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 di ...
,
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
. Died: 24 Apr 2004.
***
Leonard A. LAUDER
Leonard Alan Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is an American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded by their parents, Estée Laude ...
. Born: 19 Mar 1933. Married: 1959. Married to
Evelyn H. HAUSNER. Born: 12 Aug 1936,
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Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. Died: 12 Nov 2011,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
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,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
. Married: 1 Jan 2015. Married to Judy GLICKMAN.
**** Gary M. LAUDER. Married to Laura HELLER.
***** Josh LAUDER. Married to Katherine CHAN.
****** George LAUDER.
***** Eliana LAUDER
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William P. LAUDER. Born: 11 Apr 1960. Married to Karen JACOBS.
***** Rachel LAUDER
***** Danielle LAUDER
***** ''daughter'' LAUDER
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Ronald S. LAUDER
Ronald (Ron) Steven Lauder (born February 26, 1944) is an American businessman, billionaire, philanthropist, art collector, and political activist. He is the president of the World Jewish Congress since 2007. He and his brother, Leonard Lauder, ...
. Born: 26 Feb 1944,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
,
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
. Married to Jo Carole KNOPF.
****
Aerin R. LAUDER. Born: 23 Apr 1970. Married: 1 Jun 1996. Married to
Eric ZINTERHOFER
Eric Louis Zinterhofer (born August 1971) is an American private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners.
Early life
Eric Zinterhofer was born in August 1971. He is the son of Dr Louis J. M. Zinterhofer and Susan A ...
.
***** Jack ZINTERHOFER
***** Will ZINTERHOFER
****
Jane LAUDER
Jane Lauder Warsh (born 1973) is an American billionaire heiress and businesswoman.
Early life
Lauder is the daughter of Jo Carole Lauder (née Knopf) and Ronald Lauder. Her father served as United States Ambassador to Austria under President R ...
. Born 1973. Married to
Kevin WARSH
Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970) is an American financier and bank executive who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011. During and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Warsh acted as t ...
.
Mentzer
Some of the family members include:
''Please note capitalization of surnames is typically used in genealogy trees''
* Max MENTZER. Married to Rose SCHOTZ. (Born: abt 1837/1897. Married Abraham ROSENTHAL (first husband))
** Sylvan Schwartzreich born 1908 (grandson of Rose, son of deceased Rose's daughter Bertha. Bertha, and unborn child, died in 1913. Sylvan raised by Rose due to death of mother, Bertha.
** Helen Schwartzreich born 1910 (granddaughter of Rose, daughter of Rose's daughter Bertha. Helen raised by Rose due to death of mother, Bertha.
** Grace "Renee" MENTZER.
**
Josephine Esther "Estée" MENTZER. Born: 1 JuL 1906,
Corona
Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:
* Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star
* Corona (beer), a Mexican beer
* Corona, informal term for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 di ...
,
Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
. Married: 1930. Divorced: 11 Apr 1939. Remarried: 7 Dec 1942. Died: 24 Apr 2004. Married to Joseph H. LAUDER(né LAUTER).(Born: 26 Dec 1902. Died: Jan 1983.)
Family members fortune
Members of the Lauder family on the Forbes World's Billionaires list of "the richest people in the world" in 2023:
Further reading
Estée Lauder
* Lauder, Estée. ''Estée: A Success Story.'' New York: Random House, 1985.
* Epstein, Rachel S. ''Estée Lauder: Beauty Business Success.'' New York: Franklin Watts, 2000.
* Koehn, Nancy F.
Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell.' Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. "Part 2. The Present. Chapter 5. Estée Lauder." pp. 137–200.
Ronald S. Lauder
* Lauder, Ronald S. "Discovering Klimt." Lauder, Ronald S., Renée Price, and Gustav Klimt. ''Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections.'' New York: Neue Galerie New York, 2007. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held Oct. 18, 2007-June 30, 2008, at the
Neue Galerie New York
The Neue Galerie New York (German language, German for "New Gallery") is a museum of early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design located in the William Starr Miller House at 86th Street (Manhattan), 86th Street and Fifth Avenue i ...
.
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