Billionaire cosmetics heir William Lauder is trying to kill his child’s maternal uncle from a $ 7 million Bel Air mansion he gave her – a boiling battle learned from her love child’s innocent social media post, The Post.
The 6,000-square-foot property sprawl on a lush, winding street in front of Los Angeles is at the center of a legal battle between the New York socialite Taylor Stein, 54, and Lauder, 60, president of Estée Lauder, playing in La Superior Court.
Both Stein and Lauder are members of New York families. Lauder is the son of billionaire philanthropist Leonard Lauder, who has donated more than $ 1 billion worth of art to the Metropolitan Museum. Stein is the daughter of the late famed NYC nightclub impresario Howard Stein, who opened the 1980s hot spots Xenon and AU Bar. His grandfather, Ruby Stein, was a lone shark murdered by the Westies gang. His headless body was found floating in the Gulf of Jamaica in May 1977.
The pair met at a party at Lauder’s Aspen Mansion in 2000, when Lauder still married Karen, the mother of his two other daughters. The illicit relationship began a year later, and by 2005, Stein was pregnant. According to reports, Lauder asked her to terminate the pregnancy as he was negotiating an agreement with his wife, which he eventually divorced in 2009.
Stein became pregnant again in the fall of 2006, and had a child in May 2007. Gupta Lauder, who was then the CEO of his family’s multinational company and did not want his personal life to end in the “Gossip Press”, as one of his lawyers said, to avoid media attention at the time, as mother and Arranged to take the newborn daughter to Aspen.
Under a 2007 agreement, Stein was to receive $ 1 million each year if he had not publicly disclosed the identity of his child’s father and that he was 100 of any member of the Lauder family in Palm Beach, Aspen and New York. It was agreed not to come within the yard. According to a report.
Stein and Lauder have had an explosive relationship for years. They had a shout match in November 2012 on an LA street Stein arrest After he allegedly punched her in the face. Stein pleaded guilty to a domestic charge and did 19 days of community service for the California Department of Transportation.
The recently renewed battle over the mansion apparently began late last year when the couple’s 13-year-old daughter – named The Post Withholding – reportedly described her parents as “divorced” on social media. Lauder argued that the public post violated his demands for strict confidentiality, a source told the Post.
Those demands about his love child and former mistress resulted in dozens of heavy court cases and numerous attempts to settle the current case.
According to court papers, Stine is now accused of arranging court brokerage to support the daddy of a billionaire child. The source told The Post that he accused Lauder of allegedly being involved in a campaign of harassment, including spying on high-profile private detective Jack Palladino.
Stein first alleged in a 2018 complaint that Lauder was refusing to fund a “residency assistance trust” of $ 1 million per year, and tried to oust him and his daughter, as well as his 10-year-old adopted son. Was doing, a six-bedroom, five-bathroom house that also includes a pool, court papers say.
But until last fall – before social media posts blew things up – the warring parties seem to have reached a crisis with the help of a mediator. In November 2020, Stein’s lawyer drafted an email to the judge in the case, saying it had been settled. He sent it to Lauder’s lawyer, Thomas Nolan, for review.
“Looks good,” Nolan responded, according to a copy of the email filed in court.
By January, Nolan was arguing in legal papers that he had “an agreement, not just a formal agreement.” This is when Stein unearthed a long-drawn expulsion from his home.
“How is it that suddenly, about 2½ months after the fact, ‘Looks Good’ is adapted by Lauder, in short, ‘feels so wrong?” “Stein’s lawyers argued.
Calls and emails to lawyers for both Stein and Lauder were not returned.
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