UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
( ) Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16.
Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instructions 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person
Trust f/b/o Lauder Aerin & Jane, u/a/d 12/15/76 by Estee & J.H.L. (1)
c/o Richard D. Parsons
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
The Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
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3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary)
4. Statement for Month/Year
2/1997
5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
( ) Director (X) 10% Owner ( ) Officer (give title below) ( ) Other
(specify below)
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
(X) Form filed by One Reporting Person
( ) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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1. Title of Security |2. |3. |4.Securities Acquired (A) |5.Amount of |6.Dir |7.Nature of Indirect |
| Transaction | or Disposed of (D) | Securities |ect | Beneficial Ownership |
| | | | Beneficially |(D)or | |
| | | | | A/| | Owned at |Indir | |
| Date |Code|V| Amount | D | Price | End of Month |ect(I)| |
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Table II -- Derivative Securitites Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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1.Title of Derivative |2.Con- |3. |4. |5.Number of De |6.Date Exer|7.Title and Amount |8.Price|9.Number |10.|11.Nature of|
Security |version |Transaction | rivative Secu |cisable and| of Underlying |of Deri|of Deriva |Dir|Indirect |
|or Exer | | | rities Acqui |Expiration | Securities |vative |tive |ect|Beneficial |
|cise | | | red(A) or Dis |Date(Month/| |Secu |Securities |(D)|Ownership |
|Price of| | | posed of(D) |Day/Year) | |rity |Benefi |or | |
|Deriva- | | | |Date |Expir| | |ficially |Ind| |
|tive | | | | A/|Exer-|ation| Title and Number | |Owned at |ire| |
|Secu- | | | | | D |cisa-|Date | of Shares | |End of |ct | |
|rity |Date |Code|V| Amount | |ble | | | |Month |(I)| |
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Class B Common Stock |1:1 |2/10/|J (2| |300,000 |D |Immed|NA |Class A Comm|300,000|NA | |D | |
| |1997 |) | | | |. | |on Stock | | | | | |
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Class B Common Stock |1:1 |2/10/|J (2| |300,000 |D |Immed|NA |Class A Comm|300,000|NA |3,690,474 |D | |
| |1997 |) | | | |. | |on Stock | | | | | |
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Put Option (obligation|1:1 |2/10/|P (3| |600,000 |A |Immed|6/30/|Class B Comm|600,000|(3) |600,000 |D | |
to acquire Class B Co| |1997 |) | | | |. |2000 |on Stock | | | | | |
mmon Stock) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Call Option (obligatio|1:1 |2/10/|S (3| |600,000 |D |Immed|6/30/|Class A Comm|600,000|(3) |600,000 |D | |
n to sell Class A Comm| |1997 |) | | | |. |2000 |on Stock | | | | | |
on Stock) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Call Option (right to |1:1 |2/10/|P (3| |600,000 |A |Immed|6/30/|Class B Comm|600,000|(3) |600,000 |D | |
acquire Class B Common| |1997 |) | | | |. |2000 |on Stock | | | | | |
Stock) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Put Option (right to s|1:1 |2/10/|S (3| |600,000 |D |Immed|6/30/|Class A Comm|600,000|(3) |600,000 |D | |
ell Class A Common Sto| |1997 |) | | | |. |2000 |on Stock | | | | | |
ck) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Explanation of Responses:
1. The full name of the Reporting Person is: Trust f/b/o Aerin Lauder and Jane
Lauder, u/a/d December 15, 1976, by
Estee Lauder and Joseph H. Lauder, as Grantors (the
"Trust").
2. The Trust distributed 300,000 shares of Class B Common Stock to each of its
beneficiaries, Aerin Lauder
Zinterhofer and Jane
Lauder.
3. The Reporting Person granted an option to acquire an aggregate of up to
600,000 shares of Class A Common
Stock for a like number of shares of Class B Common Stock to Ronald S. Lauder
in exchange for the granting by
Ronald S. Lauder to the Reporting Person of an option to acquire an aggregate
of up to 600,000 shares of Class B
Common Stock for a like number of shares of Class A Common Stock. To the
extent either the Reporting Person or
Ronald S. Lauder exercise the options it or he received, the number of shares
which may be acquired upon the
exercise of the other party's corresponding options is reduced on a
share-for-share basis.
SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON
Richard D. Parsons, Trustee
DATE
March 3, 1997
