{"id":"leonard-lauder","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonard-lauder","language":"en","name":"Leonard Lauder","name_en":"Leonard Lauder","name_ne":null,"description":"American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector","headline":"American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Leonard Alan Lauder (March 19, 1933 – June 14, 2025) was an American billionaire, philanthropist and art collector. Together, he and his brother, Ronald Lauder, were the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded in 1946 by their parents, Estée and Joseph Lauder. Having been its CEO until 1999, Leonard was the chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies. During his tenure as the CEO, the company went public at the New York Stock Exchange in 1996 and acquired several major cosmetics brands, including MAC Cosmetics, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and La Mer.","summary_more":["In 2013, Lauder promised his collection of Cubist art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection is valued at over $1 billion and constitutes one of the largest gifts in the museum's history.","At the time of his death, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$9.7 billion."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"19 March 1933","date":"1933-03-19"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Upper West Side","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q429687"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"14 June 2025","date":"2025-06-14"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Upper East Side","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455587"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"},{"text":"military officer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189290"},{"text":"art collector","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10732476"},{"text":"philanthropist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12362622"},{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"deltiologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59273465"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Columbia Business School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q907481"},{"text":"The Wharton School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1329269"},{"text":"Columbia University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49088"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Evelyn Lauder","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462055","start":"1959","end":"2011-11-12"},{"text":"Judith Glickman Lauder","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79680453","start":"2015","end":"2025"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484#P26"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lauder","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Leonard Lauder born?","a":"Leonard Lauder was born on 19 March 1933 in Upper West Side."},{"q":"Where did Leonard Lauder study?","a":"Leonard Lauder was educated at Columbia Business School, The Wharton School, Columbia University."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alex Karp","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Leonard Lauder","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lauder","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6525484","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525484","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Leonard Lauder, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Leonard Lauder\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/leonard-lauder. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonard-lauder","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonard-lauder","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonard-lauder?lang=ne"}}