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Leonard Lauder Calls Off Wedding

The billionaire remains New York's Most Eligible Bachelor, for the moment.

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By: Jamie Matusow

Editor-in-Chief

It’s been reported that Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of Estée Lauder Co., has postponed his wedding to Linda Johnson, CEO of the Brooklyn Public Library.

The couple had planned to marry during a small gathering in Philadephia last weekend, where Johnson was born and raised.

Lauder began publicly dating Johnson in late 2012 – one year after losing his wife of more than 50 years, Evelyn Lauder, to ovarian cancer.

The couple is still together, and vacationing – instead of honeymooning – in Sardinia.


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