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SLIRIT OF EN PUG TEEK GAY EROSITY building on a special legacy VEGAS CELEBRATES NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH WITH THE NEW ACTING CHAIRMAN OF THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION, LEONARD LAUDER, WHO TAKES UP THE CAUSE CHAMPIONED BY HIS LATE WIFE, EVELYN. BY JANET CARLSON A t The Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Hot Pink Luncheon and Symposium in Palm Beach this past February, Leonard Lauder, one of America's best-known business figures, stepped to the podium and said modestly, "I introduce myself these days as Mr. Evelyn Lauder." He paused for the bittersweet applause, before add- ing, "because I am absolutely dedicated to my dear wife Evelyn's dream of curing and preventing breast cancer." Three months earlier, in November 2011, Evelyn Lauder died at home in New York City of nongenetic ovarian cancer. A woman of many accomplishments, Evelyn held the position of senior corporate vice president at Estée Lauder and oversaw fra- grance development worldwide. She famously founded The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) almost two decades ago after a bout with breast cancer (which was successfully treated)—and adopted the pink ribbon in 1992 to raise awareness during the month of October. Lauder loved to connect with people from all walks of life, her posthumous from Manhattan to Las Vegas. During tribute in New York City's Lincoln Center this past January, attended by a crowd of more than 2,000, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "She didn't just give a speech or write a check; she created a movement, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which has raised more than $350 million for research and given us an iconic symbol, the pink ribbon." Leonard Lauder, still active as chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies, is a dedicated Evelyn and Leonard Lauder at the 2010 Hot Pink Party: Sweet Sixteen. philanthropist—his NYC commit- ments include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Aspen Institute, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, to which The Leonard & Evelyn Lauder continued on page 58 56 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT POWER (PORTRAIT); JULIE SKARRATT (LAUDERS)