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The Good Heiress
For Aerin Lauder -- Estee's granddaughter -- impeccable manners and business sense are as much a birthright as flawless skin. By Rebecca Mead
Aerin Lauder answers the door of her Park Avenue apartment with a practiced graciousness: a kiss on the cheek, an offer of refreshment. It's a warm spring morning, and sunlight fills her spacious, honey-colored living room, which is furnished with comfortable sofas and chairs dating from the 1930s and '40s. Impressive works of modern and contemporary art hang on the walls. A maid uniformed in a white apron emerges from a faraway kitchen bearing a glass of cold water, which she sets down on a ...