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Ronald Steven Lauder is an American businessman. He is the sole heir to The Estée Lauder Companies, founded by his parents Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder in 1946, following the death of his brother Leonard Lauder in 2025.
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Born 26 February 1944 · Q699565
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This scandal shows that anti-Jewish resentment is still widespread, and unscrupulous politicians are allowed to exploit it for electioneering purposes. That is mind-boggling, and it could have negative repercussions for Austrian Jews.
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“Such boycott calls are cynical and hypocritical. Minister Gilmore is taking aim at the only liberal democracy in the Middle East while keeping quiet about those who really wreak havoc in the region: the Assads, Ahmadinejads and their allies Hezbollah and Hamas.”
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“This scandal shows that anti-Jewish resentment is still widespread, and unscrupulous politicians are allowed to exploit it for electioneering purposes. That is mind-boggling, and it could have negative repercussions for Austrian Jews.”
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“Maybe that money that Switzerland is paying to Iran will some day be used to either buy weapons to kill Israelis, or buy weapons to kill Americans, or buy missiles to be able to deliver nuclear weapons.”
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“s views should not be allowed to run such an important and popular racing series. He urged Formula One teams, drivers, and host countries to suspend their cooperation with him. In reaction, Ecclestone told the news agency Associated Press that”
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Public attention spiked: 7,458 Wikipedia readers in one day, 15.8× the usual 473, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Conservative activism and donations For now, Lauder has stopped political donations.
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Public attention spiked: 3,437 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.3× the usual 473, with 0 article edits.
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That Lauder's suggestions to the President may intersect with his own business interests
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Reported net worth: $4.9B (as of 2025).
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Lauder donated $5 million to the MAGA Inc
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Lauder donated $8,000 to the Nikki Haley 2024 presidential campaign
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Career landmark: restitution of Nazi-looted art.
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But Ronald himself gave $11 million to the Republican challenger Lee Zeldin
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Lauder gave 91 pieces of arms and armor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Won: 2018 (2019).
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Lauder purchased a majority of the collection of The International Museum of World War II
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Awarded Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2015).
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Jeffrey Epstein established a limited liability company for Lauder and Leon Black to share ownership of a $25 million artwork by Kurt Schwitters
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The Second Authority for Television and Radio decided on the issue in which it decided that the apology to Adelson broadcast by the channel was appropriate and that "no evidence has been presented that there was any inte
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Lauder reportedly scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a number of missteps, including lacking a diplomatic plan heading into the September UN vote on Palestinian statehood and setting preconditions for
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Writing in the German newspaper Die Welt, Lauder called for Israel to be admitted into the Western defense alliance NATO: "Israel needs real guarantees for its security
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“There is a growing tendency to blame the Jews for all evil that happens under the sun. It is a scandal that a leading academic such as Galtung does not shy away from citing notorious forgeries such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to support his bigoted arguments.”
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Lauder founded RWL Water, LLC
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Following the resignation of Edgar Bronfman, Sr
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Purchased from Maria Altmann and her family, the painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt for $135 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting at that time
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Lauder founded and became the president of Lauder Business School in Vienna, Austria
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Lauder opened the Neue Galerie in New York, an art museum dedicated to art from Germany and Austria from the early 20th century
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Lauder was asked by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to begin Track II negotiations with Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad; these negotiations continued after the election of Ehud Barak to the post
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Lauder co-founded the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation with his brother, Leonard A
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Should be reopened because of allegations Credit Suisse, now owned by UBS, concealed documents that would have magnified the number of accounts held in Switzerland for Nazi interests and Holocaust victims
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– "A Singular Passion for Amassing Art, One Way or Another" – outlined a case involving Portrait of Wally by Egon Schiele, which was in the MoMA exhibition but was obtained by Leopold soon after the Nazi era
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Exhibited some paintings owned by Rudolph Leopold, a Viennese doctor and art collector
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Voters turned down a council proposal to extend term limits
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Successfully led a campaign to place term limits on the mayor
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Losing to Rudy Giuliani in the Republican primary (Giuliani lost to David Dinkins in the general election but defeated Dinkins in 1993)
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Lauder established the Ronald S
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Career landmark: United States Ambassador to Austria (1986–1987).
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Ronald Reagan named him as the United States ambassador to Austria, a position he held until 1987
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Published a book titled Fighting Violent Crime in America
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Became a deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense in the Ronald Reagan administration
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Following the death of his brother Leonard Lauder in 2025
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Born 1944-02-26.
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