Aerin Lauder

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Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer
Born
Aerin Rebecca Lauder

(1970-04-23) April 23, 1970 (age 54)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Creative director, Estée Lauder Companies
Spouse
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(m. 1996)​
Children2
Parent
Relatives Estée Lauder (grandmother)
Jane Lauder (sister)
Leonard Lauder (uncle)
William P. Lauder (cousin)

Aerin Rebecca Lauder Zinterhofer (born April 23, 1970) [1] is an American billionaire heiress and businesswoman. [2]

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Family and education

Lauder is the daughter of Jo Carole Lauder (née Knopf) and Ronald Lauder. [3] Her father served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria under President Ronald Reagan, and is the president of the World Jewish Congress. [4] She is the granddaughter of Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, the cofounders of the cosmetics company Estée Lauder Companies. She has one sister, Jane Lauder Warsh. [5]

Lauder graduated from University of Pennsylvania. [6] She worked at the family company during and after college. She then studied at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. [7]

Career

Lauder is the style and image director for the Estée Lauder Companies [8] and has her own cosmetic, perfume, fashion, and furniture line named AERIN. [5] She also has a furniture and accessories collection. [9] [10]

She owns 16 million shares in the Estée Lauder Companies making her worth $2.7 billion as of 2019 [5] [11] and ranking her 319 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. [12]

Personal life

In 1996, Lauder married Eric Zinterhofer in a Jewish ceremony in Wainscott, New York. [6] Zinterhofer is an investment banker, the co-founder of the private equity firm Searchlight Capital Partners and the former co-head of media and telecommunications investing at Apollo Global Management. [5] The couple lives in New York City [13] and East Hampton, New York [8] [14] with their two sons. [15] She also has homes in Aspen, Colorado [16] and on the Pacific coast of Panama. [17] [18]

Works and publications

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