Leonard A. Lauder at his Upper East Side apartment with photographs by Irving Penn. “He understands the power of an image and how it can move us all,’’ says Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauder is still on the hunt, adding to the Met’s Penn collection.Credit...Jingyu Lin for The New York TimesSkip to contentSkip to site indexSection Navigation
Buy, Donate, Repeat: At 91, Leonard Lauder Has More to Give
Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today.
Leonard A. Lauder at his Upper East Side apartment with photographs by Irving Penn. “He understands the power of an image and how it can move us all,’’ says Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauder is still on the hunt, adding to the Met’s Penn collection.Credit...Jingyu Lin for The New York Times
Leonard Alan Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is an American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded by their parents, Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, in 1946.[1] Having been its CEO until 1999, Lauder is the chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.[2] During his tenure as the CEO, the company went public at The New York Stock Exchange in 1996 and acquired several major cosmetics brands, including MAC Cosmetics, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and La Mer.[3][4]
In 2013, Lauder promised his collection of Cubist art to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection is valued at over $1 billion and constitutes one of the largest gifts in the museum's history.[5]
Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Lauder's net worth at US$32.3 billion as of September 2021, the 44th richest person in the world.[6]
倫納德·艾倫·勞德（Leonard Alan Lauder，1933 年 3 月 19 日出生）是美國億萬富翁、慈善家、藝術收藏家。他和他的兄弟 Ronald Lauder 是雅詩蘭黛公司化妝品財富的唯一繼承人，該公司由他們的父母雅詩蘭黛和約瑟夫蘭黛於 1946 年創立。蘭黛 (Lauder) 一直擔任執行長直至 1999 年，現在是雅詩蘭黛公司 (The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.) 的名譽董事長[2]在他擔任執行長期間，該公司於1996年在紐約證券交易所上市，並收購了多個主要化妝品品牌，包括MAC Cosmetics、Aveda、Bobbi Brown和La Mer。
2013年，蘭黛承諾將他收藏的立體派藝術作品捐贈給大都會藝術博物館。該藏品價值超過 10 億美元，是博物館歷史上最大的禮物之一。
彭博億萬富翁指數估計，截至 2021 年 9 月，勞德的淨資產為 323 億美元，位居全球第 44 位富豪。
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