Leonard Lauder

Leonard A. Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. He was chief executive until 1999. Today Estée Lauder operates several brands in the cosmetics industry including Estée Lauder, Clinique, MAC Cosmetics, Aveda, Bobbi Brown and La Mer. Leonard Lauder gained notoriety in 2001 for creating the Lipstick index, a since discredited economic indicator. Leonard Lauder comes from the Lauder family, a prominent American Jewish family of Hungarian and Czechoslovak descent in the cosmetics business; he is the son of Joseph and Estée Lauder, and the older brother of Ronald Lauder. He married Evelyn Hausner in July 1959. They had two sons: William, executive chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies; and...