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 edit

Lauder edit

Some of the family members include:
Please note capitalization of surnames is typically used in genealogy trees


Mentzer edit

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 edit

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 edit

Estée Lauder edit

  • Lauder, Estée. Estée: A Success Story. New York: Random House, 1985. ISBN 978-0-394-55191-3 OCLC 230830846
  • Epstein, Rachel S. Estée Lauder: Beauty Business Success. New York: Franklin Watts, 2000. ISBN 978-0-531-11705-7 OCLC 824192141
  • Koehn, Nancy F. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-578-51221-8 OCLC 44868991 "Part 2. The Present. Chapter 5. Estée Lauder." pp. 137–200.

Ronald S. Lauder edit

  • 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. ISBN 978-3-791-33834-7 OCLC 171112008 Published in conjunction with the exhibition held Oct. 18, 2007-June 30, 2008, at the Neue Galerie New York.

References edit

  1. ^ "The Lauder Family". Estée Lauder Companies. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. ^ Brockman, Joshua (Spring 2014). "Getting to the Root of Family Trees: The Lauder Family". Wharton Magazine. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Our Founder". Estée Lauder Companies. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-04-10.