Est%C3%A9e Lauder (businesswoman)
Este Lauder was an American businesswoman. She was the cofounder, along with her husband, Joseph Lauter , of Este Lauder Companies, her eponymous cosmetics company. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazines 1998 list of themost influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.
Lauder was born in New York City, in Corona, Queens, the second child born to Rose Rosenthal and Max Mentzer. Her parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, her mother from Storljajhely and her father from Holice . Rose emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1898 with her five children to join her then husband, Abraham Rosenthal. But, in 1905, she married Max Mentzer, a shopkeeper who had also immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. When their daughter was born, they wanted to name her Eszti, after her mothers favorite Hungarian aunt, but decided at the last minute to keep the name Josephine, which they had agreed upon. Immediately though, the babys nickname became Estee, and which is what she grew up responding to. Eventually, when she launched her perfume empire with her husband, she added accent mark to make her name sound French and began pronouncing it the way her father pronounced it in his Hungarian accent. She attended Newtown High School in Elmhurst, New York and
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