Aerin Lauder

Lauder is the daughter of Jo Carole Lauder (née Knopf) and Ronald Lauder.[3] Her father served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria under President Ronald Reagan, and is the president of the World Jewish Congress.[4] She is the granddaughter of Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, the cofounders of the cosmetics company Estée Lauder Companies. She has one sister, Jane Lauder Warsh.[5]

Lauder graduated from University of Pennsylvania.[6] She worked at the family company during and after college. She then studied at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.[7]

Lauder is the style and image director for the Estée Lauder Companies[8] and has her own cosmetic, perfume, fashion, and furniture line named AERIN.[5] She also has a furniture and accessories collection.[9][10]

She owns 16 million shares in the Estée Lauder Companies making her worth $2.7 billion as of 2019[5][11] and ranking her 319 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.[12]

In 1996, Lauder married Eric Zinterhofer in a Jewish ceremony in Wainscott, New York.[6] Zinterhofer is an investment banker, the co-founder of the private equity firm Searchlight Capital Partners and the former co-head of media and telecommunications investing at Apollo Global Management.[5] The couple lives in New York City[13] and East Hampton, New York[8][14] with their two sons.[15] She also has homes in Aspen, Colorado[16] and on the Pacific coast of Panama.[17][18] Aerin Lauder has two sons with Eric Zinterhofer.

• Lauder, Aerin, Christine Pittle, and Simon Upton. Beauty at Home. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2013. ISBN 978-0-770-43361-1 OCLC 866853447
• Smith, Clinton Ross, and Aerin Lauder. Veranda: The Romance of Flowers. 2015. Foreword by Lauder. ISBN 9781-6-183-7179-9 OCLC 903424582
• Lauder, Aerin. Aspen Style. New York: Assouline, 2017. ISBN 9781614286226
• Lauder, Aerin. Palm Beach. New York: Assouline, 2019. ISBN 9781614288626

• Estée Lauder Companies
• Lauder family

• AERIN