Leonard A Lauder

Leonard A. Lauder, the art patron and philanthropist who with his mother, Estée Lauder, built a family cosmetics business into a worldwide juggernaut that supplied generations of women with the creams, colors and scents of eternal youth, died on Saturday June 14 2025 at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He was 92. Mr. Lauder has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since 1995. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from 1982 through 1999 and as President from 1972 until 1995. Mr. Lauder formally joined the Company in 1958 after serving as an officer in the United States Navy. Since joining the Company, he has held various positions, including executive officer positions other than those described above. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art, a Charter Trustee of The University of Pennsylvania, a Trustee of The Aspen Institute and the co-founder and director of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. He served as a member of the White House Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations under President Reagan. Mr. Lauder is a member of the Nominating and Board Affairs Committee. In 1959, Mr. Lauder married Evelyn Hausner. They had two children: William, who is the executive chairman and chairman of the board of Estée Lauder Companies, and Gary, managing director of Lauder Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Lauder’s first wife died in 2011. In 2015, he married the photographer Judith Glickman. She survives him, as do his sons, his brother, five grandchildren, two great-grandsons and many stepchildren and step-grandchildren.