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Article: Cosmetics Empire Estee Lauder Cos. Ages Gracefully.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- June 10, 2003
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By Elizabeth Sanger, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 10--Estee Lauder retired eight years ago from the cosmetics company she founded, but her elegant 40th-floor corner office, with its hand-painted Chinese wallpaper and breathtaking views of Central Park, remains the way she left it.
Family photographs are displayed behind her green leather-topped desk, and pictures of her with dignitaries such as Ronald and Nancy Reagan and the late Cardinal John O'Connor sit next to the large L-shaped creamy silk couch. Compacts, plaques and dried flowers haven't been touched.
Her grandson, William Lauder, 43, who was ...