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In June 2022, Estée Lauder said it would cover travel and lodging for reproductive health care in the United States starting in August. The announcement came after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as companies expanded benefits for employees who could not access care where they lived.

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is restricted," the health insurance provider said in an emailed statement. Citigroup  The bank added the travel benefit to its workplace offerings after several states enacted restrictive reproductive health care laws. "Beginning in 2022 we provide travel benefits to facilitate access to adequate resources," Citigroup stated in a regulatory filing on March 15.CNNThe media company is among those covering abortion-related travel costs for workers, according to the New York Times.ComcastThe parent of NBCUniversal will cover up to $4,000 a trip, and up to three a year, for employee medical travel, with an annual cap of $10,000, the newspaper said.Condé NastThe magazine publisher is also covering abortion-related travel costs for workers, the Times reported.CVS Health The drugstore chain has reportedly made out-of-state medical care, including abortion, accessible for employees. Dick's Sporting GoodsAfter the Supreme Court ruling, the retailer said it will reimburse as much as $4,000 in abortion travel costs "to the nearest location that care is legally available" for workers, their spouses and dependents. Estee Lauder The cosmetics company said earlier this month it will cover travel and lodging for reproductive health care in the U.S. starting in August.Goldman Sachs Group The bank reportedly will cover travel costs for U.S.-based employees who need to go out of state to get abortions or gender-affirming care, starting July 1. Hewlett Packard The company is among those that cover travel costs for medical procedures not available in a worker's home state. Ikea USThe furniture maker said it would expand employee benefits to include travel expense for medical procedures including abortion if unavailable within a reasonable distance. JPMorgan ChaseThe nation's biggest bank last week said it will cover the tab of travel to states where abortion remains legal starting in July.Kroger  The grocer, based in Ohio, is providing up to $4,000 to cover travel to a range of medical procedures, including abortion and fertility treatments. New York TimesThe newspaper said it would expand its medical coverage to include abortion-related and gender-affirming care travel,

William Lauder committed $4 million to endow the William P. Lauder Wharton Leadership Fellows Program at the University of Pennsylvania. The program pairs second-year MBA students with first-year students for mentoring and leadership development. Lauder also teaches a Wharton leadership course and serves on Penn’s Board of Trustees.

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https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018-4-15-wharton-william-lauder-gift-leadership-development
Lauder recently committed $4 million to endow the William P. Lauder Wharton Leadership Fellows Program at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

A 2010 Forbes account said William P. Lauder, then Estée Lauder’s CEO, sought to seal a lawsuit over a settlement dispute with Taylor Stein, the mother of his daughter. The judge rejected the sealing request. Stein alleged breaches of their agreement; Lauder accused her of disclosing it, and the parties later said they had agreed in principle to resolve the matter.

Against Corporate conduct
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https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0329/billionaires-2010-united-states-estee-lauder-taylor-stein-none-of-your-business/
Last year lawyers for William P. Lauder, then chief executive of the Estée Lauder Co., filed a highly unusual motion in New York Supreme Court. They asked the judge to keep anonymous all the parties to a suit that he had filed and to seal the file from prying eyes. Was Lauder trying to keep secret a formula for the company's beauty products? Hardly. His suit concerned a dispute with a woman not his wife, with whom he had had a daughter. His lawyers nonetheless tried to justify the secrecy on the grounds that he's "chief executive of a major multinational corporation." They claimed, "When the file is open, the gossip press can review it and quote from it."

The Daily Beast reported in August 2026 that billionaire Republican donor Ronald Lauder had stopped donating to Republican causes in his home state of New York that year, ahead of the midterm elections. The report contrasted the pause with his millions in donations to Republican causes the previous year.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-republican-megadonor-ronald-lauder-pulls-the-plug-on-trumps-party
Ronald Lauder, the billionaire and major GOP donor, has abruptly stopped handing out political donations ahead of the crucial midterm elections for Donald Trump.
About & ownership
Legal name
ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC
Category
Cosmetics
Website
elcompanies.com
Stock listing
NYSE:EL

Stéphane de La Faverie · President and CEO

Estée Lauder · Founder

Leonard A. Lauder · Chair

Sara Moss · Vice Chair

William P. Lauder · Chair

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