Lauder family explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

The family is of Hungarian Jewish and Czech Jewish ancestry.^[3]

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. 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
        • daughter 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:^[4]

Rank	Name	Net Worth
77	Leonard Lauder	$21 billion
534	Jane Lauder	$5 billion
591	Ronald Lauder	$4.6 billion
582	William Lauder	$3.4 billion
949	Aerin Lauder	$3.1 billion
2133	Gary Lauder	$1.3 billion
	Total	$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.

Notes and References

1. News: The Lauder Family. 3 January 2016. Estée Lauder Companies.
2. News: Brockman. Joshua. Getting to the Root of Family Trees: The Lauder Family. 3 January 2016. Wharton Magazine. Spring 2014. en-US.
3. News: Our Founder. 3 January 2016. Estée Lauder Companies.
4. Web site: Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World . 2023-04-10 . Forbes . English.