Estée Lauder Bio
- Estée Lauder
- Constellation: Cancer
- Born In: New York City, New Y
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- Other Names:Josephine Esther Men
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Estee Lauder was the daughter of immigrants, and lived above her father's hardware store in working-class Queens. Her family called her 'Esty', and when a public school official spelled it Estee, it stuck. In 1930, she married a garment center businessman named Joseph Lauter (later changed to Lauder), and had a son, Leonard. During the 1930s, she began selling face creams that her uncle, a chemist, mixed in a makeshift laboratory behind the family house. Estee went to beauty salons to give free
