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Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.
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business · American businesswoman (1908–2004) · businessperson · fashion designer · also Estée Lauder, Estée Lauder (businesswoman), Estee Lauder, Josephine Esther Mentzer, Lauder
Born 1 July 1906 · Died 24 April 2004 · Q285493
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 3,702 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 548, with 0 article edits.
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2015· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Cosmetic companies Avon, Mary Kay and Estée Lauder have resumed testing their products on animals after previously abandoning the practice.” Mixture.
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2004· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2004).
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Died 2004-04-24.
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1953· 1 entry
Lauder introduced her first fragrance, Youth-Dew, a bath oil that doubled as a perfume
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1946· 1 entry
Estée and Joseph Lauder launched Estée Lauder Cosmetic Co
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1939· 1 entry
And she moved to Florida, but they remarried in 1942
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-07-01.
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1905· 1 entry
Rose married Max Mentzer, a shopkeeper who had also immigrated to the United States in the 1890s
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1898· 1 entry
Her mother Rose had emigrated from Hungary to the United States with her five children at the time to join her first husband, Abraham Rosenthal
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