Billionaire Estee Lauder heir locked in legal battle with baby mama
Billionaire cosmetics heir William Lauder is trying to kick his baby mama out of the $7 million Bel Air mansion he gave her — a simmering battle that re-ignited with their love child’s innocent social media post, The Post has learned.
The sprawling 6,000-square foot property on a lush, winding road overlooking Los Angeles is at the center of a legal war playing out in LA Superior Court between New York socialite Taylor Stein, 54, and Lauder, 60, the chairman of Estee Lauder.
Both Stein and Lauder are members of storied New York families. Lauder is the son of billionaire philanthropist Leonard Lauder, who donated more than $1 billion worth of art to the Metropolitan Museum. Stein is the daughter of the late legendary NYC nightclub impresario Howard Stein, who opened 1980s hot spots Xenon and Au Bar. Her grandfather, Ruby Stein, was a loan shark murdered by the Westies gang. His headless body was found floating in Jamaica Bay in May 1977.
The couple met at a party at Lauder’s Aspen mansion in 2000, when Lauder was still married to his wife Karen, the mother of his two other daughters. The illicit affair began a year later, and by 2005, Stein was pregnant. Lauder asked her to end the pregnancy because he was negotiating an agreement with his wife, whom he eventually divorced in 2009, according to reports.
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