Beauty products pioneer Estee Lauder dead at 97

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Estee Lauder, who over decades built a
multi-million-dollar cosmetics empire with thousands of employees, has died
at the age of 97.

Her son Leonard Lauder told the newspaper Lauder died of cardiopulmonary
arrest.


She died Saturday at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, The NY
Times said.