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, during the 20th century.
The family is of Hungarian Jewish and Czech Jewish 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, Queens. Died: 24 Apr 2004. Leonard A. LAUDER. Born: 19 Mar 1933. Died: 14 June 2025. Married: 1959. Married to Evelyn H. HAUSNER. Born: 12 Aug 1936, Vienna, Austria. Died: 12 Nov 2011, New York, New York. Married: 1 Jan 2015. Married to Judy GLICKMAN. William P. LAUDER. Born: 11 Apr 1960. Married to Karen JACOBS. Rachel LAUDER Danielle LAUDER Djuna-Bear LAUDER Ronald S. LAUDER. Born: 26 Feb 1944, New York, New York. Married to Jo Carole KNOPF. Aerin R. LAUDER. Born: 23 Apr 1970. Married: 1 Jun 1996. Married to Eric ZINTERHOFER. Jack ZINTERHOFER Will ZINTERHOFER Jane LAUDER. Born 1973. Married to Kevin WARSH.
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 1908, Corona, Queens. 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: RankNameNet Worth77Leonard Lauder$21 billion534Jane Lauder$5 billion591Ronald Lauder$4.6 billion582William Lauder$3.4 billion949Aerin Lauder$3.1 billion2133Gary Lauder$1.3 billionTotal$38.4 billion
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.
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