Leonard Lauder
Chairman Emeritus, The Estée Lauder Companies
$9.88B
$224.5M (2.3%)
as of 11/22/24
About Leonard Lauder
Leonard Lauder spent three decades running his family's publicly traded cosmetics giant, Estée Lauder.
The elder son of the eponymous makeup maven, Lauder joined his mother's company in 1958.
He created the company's first R&D laboratory and started acquiring brands like MAC, Bobbi Brown and Aveda in the mid-1990s.
Lauder stepped down as CEO in 1999. He is now chairman emeritus and is known around the company as "Chief Teaching Officer."
He and his brother, Ronald, co-chair the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, which has awarded over $209 million to fund trials in 19 countries.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Estee LauderResidence
New York, New YorkMarital status
Widowed, RemarriedBirth date
03/19/33 (age 91)Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of PennsylvaniaSelf-made
inherited and growingLeonard Lauder’s fortune is worth
165K
troy ounces of gold
152K
median U.S. household
99K
median U.S. income
0.198%
U.S. credit card volume
0.04%
GDP of the United States
0.029%
United States debt
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Lauder wrote "The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty," a memoir about his time at Estée Lauder, which hit the shelves in November 2020.
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