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Estee Lauder was born in Corona, Queens in 1906 one of nine children born to Rose Schotz and Max Mentzer
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Estee Lauder meet Joseph Lauter when she was in her erly 20s. On January 15 1930, they married.
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First child from Joseph and Estee Lauder, named Leonard.Who is now active in his mom's company. Estèe Lauder always faked her sons age so they wouldent guess Estèes real age.
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Beauty company created, East 60th st New York city.
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Devorsed Joseph Lauter (when Estee Lader moved to Florida) Estèe said it was mental cruelty. People describe Joseph as a kind man and it is unlikely that he really was cruel. But it was hard to get a divorce in those days so she said that was the rason.
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Estee Lauder remarried Joseph, she realized that the divorce had been a mistake, she was happy with Joseph. She missed Joseph and Leonard(his son) missed his father.
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Rondald,now active in the company and many political organizations,is born
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Estee Lauder decribed it as "sweet and warm and romantic,mixing easily with flesh and water". Estee Lauder sales went from 200$ a week to 5,000 a week!
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Joseph Lauter died in 1983, Estee Lauder was devatated and stopped working for a while, but in a few months she was back at her company advising on a new perfume.
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Estee Lauder was a subject of a 1985 TV documentary, Estee Lauder: The Sweet Smell of Success. Explaining she said, "I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard."
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Estee Lauder was the only woman on TIME magazine's 1998 as one of the most important people of the 20th century.
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Aged 97, she died of "cardiopulmonary" arrest on April 24, 2004 at her home in New York.
