Taylor Stein

The seven-year affair between Lauder and Stein started in 2001, while he was married to Karen Lauder. In her lawyer's affidavit, Stein says they met in 2001 when she was a houseguest of Lauder and his wife at their Aspen home. Stein comes from a storied New York family, albeit of a different sort. Her father was nightclub impresario Howard Stein, who flourished in the 1980s, and her grandfather was Charles (Ruby) Stein, a loan shark murdered by Hell's Kitchen mobsters. His headless body was found floating in Jamaica Bay in 1977. Stein claims Lauder discouraged her from working and gave her a cash allowance (of unknown frequency) but kept the amount under $10,000 so as not to trigger a suspicious financial activity report. A trust held for Stein would get $1 million annually through 2017 if she did not reveal the identity of their daughter Djuna's father, among other proscribed activities aimed at distancing Stein and her child from the Lauder family and keeping the matter under wrap