He is American by natinoanliy. Along with his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, he has appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1998, and he in 2006, bought Gustav … Ambassador to Austria by President Ronald Reagan. Lauder has participated in a number of large media deals in Israel, among which was his purchase of part of commercial television Channel 10. Ronald Lauder is the new President of World Jewish Congress. Averbach, Lior; Barak, Roi (September 9, 2008). The profile additionally listed homes in Florida, London, Paris, and Wainscott, Long Island.[53]. Ronald S. Lauder, who with his wife … He beat the South African businessman Mendel Kaplan and Einat Wilf of Israel by a clear margin. In 2010, Lauder founded RWL Water, LLC. Lauder spent $4 million on the two referendums. Take New York City oil and real estate billionaire John Catsimatidis. It also may have sparked some controversy between Lauder and his wife of more than 50 years, Jo Carole. Lauder is married to Jo Carole (Knopf) Lauder. Lauder led a movement to introduce term limits in the New York City Council, which were subsequently imposed on most NYC elected officials, including the Mayor and City Council, after a citywide referendum in 1993. Cosmetics king Ronald Lauder has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into committees that support the president and the Republican National Committee, but his wife Jo Carole has given more than $50,000 to groups supporting Biden and the Democratic National Committee, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Minister Gilmore is taking aim at the only liberal democracy in the Middle East while keeping quiet about those who really wreak havoc in the region: the Assads, Ahmadinejads and their allies Hezbollah and Hamas." You may opt-out by, EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change. Lauder. Ronald Lauder. The thousands of purchased artifacts, owned by Rendell and his wife, Shirley McNerney Rendell, range from a Sherman tank and a Higgins landing boat to … The 91-object gift is the museum’s most significant since 1942. Ronald Lauder played a significant, albeit unreported, role in the preparation for 9/11. Lauder said: "Such boycott calls are cynical and hypocritical. Lauder manages investments in real estate and media, including Central European Media Enterprises and Israeli TV. Donald Trump shakes hands with Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, after a meeting on December 28, 2016 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Same with nephew Gary Lauder and his wife Laura. To honor the gift, the museum's entire group of Arms and Armor galleries is now named for Lauder.[15][16][17]. In 1996, voters turned down a council proposal to extend term limits. The Neue Galerie is dedicated to art from Germany and Austria from the early 20th century. And for the media > SO WHO IS THE 6% THAT LIKE BIDEN HERE ARE JUST A FEW! Ronald Lauder, chairman of Museum of Modern Art and of World Jewish Congress's new Commission on Art Recovery, is caught in middle of controversy over … © 2021 Forbes Media LLC. World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder predicts peace will spread to Palestinians UAE-Israel accord creates ‘new environment’ for Mideast peace: Official All work on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . The Lauders have long held international connections. "[29] The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Vienna Israelite Community) banned Lauder for allegedly interfering in its board elections. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a substantial gift from one of its longtime supporters. Israeli NATO membership "would send a strong signal to other countries not to take on Israel", Lauder argued. With his brother he founded the Lauder Institute at Wharton School. That is mind-boggling, and it could have negative repercussions for Austrian Jews. Asked if the World Jewish Congress was influential, Ecclestone said: "It's a pity they didn't sort the banks out" and "They have a lot of influence everywhere". Ronald Lauder and his wife Jo Carole arrive at the White House for a state dinner April 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. After a public outcry, Ecclestone apologized for his remarks and said he had "been an idiot". And on the first day of this year, Mr. Lauder married Judy Glickman, the widow of one his closest friends. Ronald S. Lauder, who with his wife … Having previously donated in a bipartisan way—giving to Mitt Romney in 2012 and Hillary Clinton in 2016—she settled on Biden this year. Michael Massing, writing of this nomination race, notes that politically Lauder 'seemed out of step with most American Jews; ... he ran to the right of Rudolph Giuliani. Jo Carole is not the only Biden backer in the family. Anne-Marie O'Connor. On November 16, 2001, Lauder opened the Neue Galerie in New York, an art museum across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pataki earned some $70,000 for speaking to groups affiliated with Lauder. Along with his wife, Jo Carole Lauder, he has appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1998, and he in 2006, bought Gustav … [31] In January 2013, it was reported that Deutsch and Lauder had resolved their dispute. According to The Village Voice, between 1994 and 1998, Gov. He was a student at Bronx High School of Science. He urged Formula One teams, drivers and host countries to suspend their cooperation with him. Leonard Alan Lauder (born 19 March 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. He lives in New York City with his wife… He is Jewish by religion. He studied at the University of Paris, and received a Certificate in International Business from the University of Brussels. The organization committed to educating the American public on the dangers posed to America by the development of nuclear weapons by Iran and radical Islam. Guests toasting the couple were led by the groom’s parents, former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and wife Veronica, and included Ronald Lauder, Lally … (Representatives for the Lauders did not comment on the contributions.) Melania attained US citizenship in 2006. The Lauder and Trump families go back decades. In his 1987 autobiography, The Art of the Deal, Trump recalls Ronald’s brother Leonard hosting a luncheon, where the future president happened to have a seat next to the ambassador to Russia. The New York County District Attorney (Manhattan) stepped in to help restore the piece to descendants of its original owner, but ownership of the painting is still in contention, nearly ten years later. In April 2008, he criticized a visit by Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to Tehran where she met with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to help a Swiss company secure a multibillion-dollar contract to buy natural gas from Iran. If the channel lost his funding, it would have difficulty continuing to operate to its current standard past October 2011. As ambassador, he fired diplomatic officer Felix Bloch, who later became known in connection with the Robert Hanssen espionage case. Ronald Steven Lauder, 74, is president of the World Jewish Congress, and an eloquent leader who advocates for Israel and Jewry across the world. [19], Lauder condemned the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. He was born on February 26, 1944 at New York, United States. He is Businessmen (American Businessman) by profession. Lauder's daughter Jane is married to Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In 1983, Mr. Lauder served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs, and in 1986 he was appointed U.S. Corporate raider Ronald Perelman gave $125,000 to Trump in 2017, his wife Anna Chapman gave some $6,000 to a pro-Biden super-PAC in February. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. They have two children, Aerin and Jane. In 2003, Lauder founded and became a president of Lauder Business School in Vienna, Austria. [47], On November 3, 2011, The Second Authority for Television and Radio reached a decision on the issue in which it decided that the apology to Adelson broadcast by the channel was appropriate and that "no evidence has been presented that there was any intervention by the shareholders of Channel 10 on new content, or even on the text of the apology, which was agreed between the news company and the person injured by the broadcast".[48]. [34], In February 2018, the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated that "there were Jewish perpetrators" of the Holocaust, "not only German perpetrators. [14]" Ronald continues as the Foundation's co-chairman. Lauder said someone with Ecclestone's views should not be allowed to run such an important and popular racing series. Ronald Lauder real name is Ronald Steven Lauder. Earlier this year, Estée Lauder employees started a petition requesting that he be removed from the board because of his support for the president. Lauder communicated a new-found willingness on Assad's part to make compromises with the Israelis in an overall land for peace deal, and his draft "Treaty of Peace Between Israel and Syria" formed an important part of the (ultimately fruitless) Israeli-Syrian negotiations that occurred in January 2000 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.[7]. Ronald Lauder with his future wife Miss Jo Carole Knopf at the April In Paris Ball, Hotel Astor, New York City, c1963 Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images "[33] Lauder also led diplomatic efforts to persuade European businesses to withdraw from Iran. He stayed in place. "[6], In 1998, Lauder was asked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to begin Track II negotiations with Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad; these negotiations continued after the election of Ehud Barak to the post. “Golden Adele” is exhibited in Lauder’s Neue Gallerie in New York today.” The Kiss is Gustav Klimt’s most iconic painting and is to Vienna what the Mona Lisa is to Paris. Ronald Lauder has stayed loyal to the Republican party, having donated to candidates like Bob Dole, Orrin Hatch and Mitt Romney over the years. "[28], In August 2012, Lauder criticized Austrian politicians for failing to publicly denounce the leader of the third-largest political party in the country, the FPÖ, Heinz-Christian Strache, who had posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page. [5], As a Republican, he made a bid to become the mayor of New York City in 1989, losing to Rudy Giuliani in the Republican primary. Lauder was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the son of Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, founders of Estée Lauder Companies. In 1986, Ronald Reagan named him as the United States Ambassador to Austria, a position he held until 1987. [27], In May 2012, Lauder condemned as "despicable" remarks made by the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung who had "revived anti-Semitic canards such as Jewish control of the media" and suggested that Israel's Mossad could have been behind the 2011 "massacres in Norway committed by Anders Breivik" in which 77 people died. She was born in Slovenia to an Austrian father and a Slovenian mother. [32], Lauder has been strongly critical of business deals by European energy firms with Iran and called for stronger UN sanctions because of Tehran's threat against Israel and its nuclear program. He is currently the President of the World Jewish Congress. European NATO member states – including Turkey – must admit the state of Israel into the Western alliance," the WJC president wrote. In an opinion article entitled "Sweden's Shame", he attacked the Swedish government, church officials and media for "fanning the flames" of hatred against Jews. The group of galleries will be named for the collector, whose 91-object gift is the museum’s most significant since 1942. According to Forbes, his net worth is $3.8 billion as of 2014. The Lauder case involves not a divorce filing but a 32-page contract between William Lauder and Taylor Stein (right), a 39-year-old socialite who is the mother of their now 2-year-old daughter. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2012, This page was last edited on 9 January 2021, at 21:17. Lauder was elected president of the World Jewish Congress on June 10, 2007,[18] following the resignation of Edgar Bronfman, Sr.. In September 2011, Israeli media published accounts that Lauder had put heavy pressure on the executives of the channel to broadcast a personal apology to the businessman Sheldon Adelson with regards to a profile that the channel had broadcast in January 2011. [38], Lauder is a longtime Republican Party donor. Leonard Lauder, Ron Lauder’s brother and the chairman emeritus at Estée Lauder, has donated more than $100,000 this election cycle to Democratic candidates running for Congress, though he has yet to pony up for Biden. [40] In 2020, Lauder donated $1.7 million to a group that opposed criminal justice reform in New York. https://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Lauder/6000000021866108748 ... Melania married Donald Trump in 2005 to become his third wife. Meet The Billionaire Couple Who’s Donated To Trump And Biden Pataki's wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll since at least 2002 and reportedly earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004. Lauder told a press conference in Bern: "Maybe that money that Switzerland is paying to Iran will some day be used to either buy weapons to kill Israelis, or buy weapons to kill Americans, or buy missiles to be able to deliver nuclear weapons. Lauder declared: "There is a growing tendency to blame the Jews for all evil that happens under the sun. Pataki earned some $70,000 for speaking to groups affiliated with Lauder. After the verdict, the painting was sold to cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder for a price of $135 million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold at the time. [41], Lauder has repeatedly come to the defense of Israel in public and is seen as an ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Lauder started to work for the Estée Lauder Company in 1964. Ronald Lauder and Donald Trump were both college students at the University of Pennsylvania before they took leading roles in their own family empires. "Accept the offer to talk, President Abbas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a substantial gift from one of its longtime supporters. In January 2010, he warmly welcomed the announcement by Siemens CEO Peter Löscher that his company would not seek new business in Iran. Email me at mtindera@forbes.com and follow me on Twitter @mtindera07. That party was held soon after Cohn had helped Reagan secure the presidency and had reached the height of his political influence. * Jo Carole Lauder, wife of cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder (estimated net worth: $4.9 billion) — Donation: $55,600, per FEC database on Sept. 3, 2020 The employer of the cosmetics industry and art collector Ronald Lauder was elected as President of World Jewish Congress (WJC) and replacement of the magnate Edgar Bronfman. Lauder also has the world's largest private collection of medieval and Renaissance armor. He is the son of Joseph Lauder (father) and Estee Lauder (mother). Staff writer at Forbes. Ronald served as ambassador to Austria under Ronald Reagan in 1986. He reportedly saw Klimt's portrait as a youth in Vienna and had admired it since. It takes two sides to make peace," Lauder wrote.[44]. [24], In 2011, writing in the German newspaper Die Welt,[25] Lauder called for Israel to be admitted into the Western defense alliance NATO: "Israel needs real guarantees for its security. Lauder’s husband, Ronald Lauder, inherited much of the couple’s fortune in the form of a stake in the eponymous cosmetics company founded by his mother, Estée Lauder. The party was attended by Ronald Lauder’s parents, Estee and Joe, as well as Trump and his then-wife Ivana, who had a weekend home just two miles away. Not all billionaires, however, are on the same page with their families. [10], Lauder has been criticized for failure to resolve a case involving the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which in 1997 exhibited some paintings owned by Rudolph Leopold, a Viennese doctor and art collector. Top Collector Ronald Lauder Donates Significant Arms and Armor Gift to the Met artnews.com - Maximilíano Durón. [2] He and his brother, Leonard Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder cosmetics company, founded by their parents, Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, in 1946.[3][4]. An investigative article in The New York Times on December 24, 1997 – "A Singular Passion for Amassing Art, One Way or Another" – outlined a case involving Portrait of Wally by Egon Schiele, which was in the MoMA exhibition but was obtained by Leopold soon after the Nazi era. [citation needed]. Real estate heiress Jane Goldman donated to Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, while her husband Benjamin Lewis gave $100,000 to a committee supporting Trump. [37], In 2018, OpenSecrets reported that Lauder had donated $1.1 Million to Secure America Now. Aerin Lauder's mom, Jo Carole Lauder, hosts a lunch after Thanksgiving in a log-cabin that was moved to their property in the Hamptons from Virginia before the pandemic. In 1930, she married Joseph Lauter, a not particularly successful entrepreneur. [52], A 2007 profile of Lauder in The New Yorker magazine detailed his residences, including three properties in Manhattan – a townhouse on East 70th Street, a townhouse (designed by Philip Johnson) on East 52nd Street, as well as an apartment at 740 Park Avenue. President George W. Bush appointed him to serve on the honorary delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008. [45][46] Because of the attacks, detailed above, on Lauder (who had been until then the last major funder of the channel), he decided to reconsider his financial support. https://news.yahoo.com/petition-oust-ronald-lauder-est-153927745.html [39] Since 2016, Lauder has donated more more than $1.6 million to pro-Donald Trump organizations. Education Equity Campaign — which is backed by cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder and former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons — said 31 of 197 … Lauder has been involved with organizations, such as the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Jewish National Fund, the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbinical College of America, Brandeis University, and the Abraham Fund. In May 2012, he reacted "with dismay" at a suggestion by Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore to impose a European Union-wide import ban on products made in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which Gilmore said were "illegal" and made peace between Israel and the Palestinians "impossible". In 1998, Lauder co-founded the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation with his brother, Leonard A. He added that "the West Bank territories are legally disputed and not illegally occupied. Ronald Steven Lauder Wiki Biography Ronald Steven Lauder (born February 26, 1944) is an American businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and political activist. The seven-year affair between Lauder and Stein started in 2001, while he was married to Karen Lauder. * Jo Carole Lauder, wife of cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder (estimated net worth: $4.9 billion) — Donation: $55,600, per FEC database on Sept. 3, 2020 Lauder has been accused of a failure to act on the case, despite being MoMA chairman at the time.[11]. We demand an immediate retraction and apology from the Polish government of these absurd and offensive remarks.". He is the younger brother of Leonard Lauder, chairman of the board of the Estée Lauder Companies. In 1987, Lauder established the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, a philanthropic organization that is dedicated to rebuilding Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. There is only one billionaire couple that Forbes has found, however, who has donated directly to the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Trump. Aerin is isolating with her husband Eric Zinterhofer, 48, and their two sons Jack, 20, and Will, 19, as well as her own parents Ronald, 76, and Jo. [49][50][51] They have two children, Aerin and Jane. Next. Lauder is married to Jo Carole (Knopf) Lauder. [12] The foundation also supports student exchange programs between New York and various capitals in Central and Eastern Europe. Ronald S. Lauder, who with his wife Jo Carole has appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1998, will give the institution … And, on Israeli issues, he was a vocal supporter of the Likud party, with long-standing ties to Benjamin Netanyahu. https://www.celebfamily.com/entrepreneur/leonard-lauder.html The couple started dating after Lauder's first wife of 52 years died of cancer in 2011 By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 15:34 EST, 10 December 2013 | Updated: 17:40 EST, 10 December 2013 Those actions didn’t sit well inside Estée Lauder, the New York City-based company where Ronald Lauder serves on the board of directors. [43] However, in June 2012, on the third anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at Bar-Ilan University, Lauder published a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers in which he called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table. Lauder is an honorary trustee of the World Monuments Fund, a New York-based non-profit with the mission of protecting endangered cultural heritage sites around the world. The next year, he released a statement touting the president as “a man of incredible insight and intelligence.” In 2019 he gave another $100,000 to the same committee supporting Trump. She is the first naturalized US citizen and the second foreign-born US First lady after Louisa Adams, wife of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams. [13] Its mission it to "rapidly accelerate the discovery of drugs to prevent, treat and cure Alzheimer's disease. He raised his children here with his wife, Evelyn H. Lauder, who died in 2011, and is now enjoying a new romantic chapter in New York with Judy Glickman Lauder, whom he married in 2015. Lauder called the painting "Our Mona Lisa". According to The Village Voice, between 1994 and 1998, Gov. He referred to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and said they were reminders of how "unpredictable" developments in the Middle East were. He, his wife Margo, and their two adult children Andrea and John Jr. have all given thousands of dollars to support President Donald Trump. Estée Lauder was born in Corona, Queens, to a Czech shopkeeper and his Hungarian wife. Rupert Murdoch reigns over a media empire known for friendly coverage toward the president, but his wife, former supermodel Jerry Hall, gave $500 to the Biden campaign. Lauder has also served as a finance chairman of the New York Republican State Committee. ", "The Shocks Continue at Channel 10: Ruti Yuval, editor of the Friday edition 'The Week', has resigned", "Kevin M. Warsh, '92 – The Governor Is In", "An Acquiring Eye – Ronald Lauder's Career in Collecting Art", "Jo Carole & Ronald Lauder: 2011 Medal Recipients", "Ronald Lauder Awarded Andrey Sheptytsky Medal by Ukrainian-Jewish Organizations", "Ronald S. 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[30] IKG President Oskar Deutsch alleged that Lauder had offered incentives to members of the IKG to support another candidate. President Trump Most Admired Man in 2020 unveiling the Bad news for Barack. "[35] Lauder condemned Morawiecki's comment as anti-Semitic, saying: "The Polish prime minister [Morawiecki] has displayed appalling ignorance with his unconscionable claim that so-called 'Jewish perpetrators' were partly responsible for the Nazi German attempt to wipe out European Jewry ... this government is going to extreme and unfathomable lengths to exonerate some of their countrymen's own complicity in the murders of their neighbors. Ronald Lauder played a significant, albeit unreported, role in the preparation for 9/11. [21][22][23], In December 2009, Lauder protested against the Roman Curia's decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Pope Pius XII, asserting that an eventual beatification would be inopportune until the Holy See's historical archives from the 1939–1945 period were opened. The apology read, "After the broadcast of the piece, we checked the accusations. https://news.yahoo.com/petition-oust-ronald-lauder-est-153927745.html [20], In July 2009, Bernie Ecclestone faced calls from Lauder to resign as Formula One chief after he had praised Adolf Hitler in a newspaper interview and said that Hitler "got things done". His repeated denials are not credible because his words and actions speak for themselves," Ronald Lauder said in a statement, adding: "This scandal shows that anti-Jewish resentment is still widespread, and unscrupulous politicians are allowed to exploit it for electioneering purposes. A Lauder spokesman denied the allegations. In 2020, Lauder gave 91 pieces of arms and armor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Clearly, and not for the first time, the FPÖ leader is trying to whip up anti-Semitic sentiment. It holds one of the best collections of works by Egon Schiele in the world. In reaction, Ecclestone told the news agency Associated Press that "I think the people who are saying that haven't got the power to say these things." Guests toasting the couple were led by the groom’s parents, former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and wife Veronica, and included Ronald Lauder, Lally … For some members of the three-comma-club, making political contributions is a family affair. [36], in 2019, Lauder launched the Antisemitism Accountability Project (ASAP) to fund campaigns fighting federal, state, and local candidates who support or promote antisemitism. [8][9] The painting, a Nazi-looted art piece which had just been restored to Altmann following years of negotiation and litigation with the Austrian government, now forms the centerpiece of the museum's collection. In 1984, he became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO policy at the United States Department of Defense. Ronald Steven Lauder (born February 26, 1944) is an American businessman, billionaire, philanthropist, art collector, and political activist. This is nothing short of an attempt to falsify history, that is one of the very worst forms of anti-Semitism and Holocaust obfuscation. Our checks revealed that the accusations were – and are – completely false ... We are very regretful that we did not check these accusations before broadcasting them." Pataki's wife, Libby, has been on Lauder's payroll since at least 2002 and reportedly earned $100,000 as a consultant in 2004.