Demsey’s decision to repost the Chingy meme quickly led to comments accusing him (and his defenders) of racism. (A good-time party rapper no edgier than Bruno Mars, Chingy’s last major hit was in 2005.) The meme was created by Chris Taliaferro, a 39-year-old self-professed Chingy superfan, who is Black, and said in an interview that the original post was intended as an absurdist joke about the desire of people to party through a pandemic. Demsey does not have a nondisclosure agreement, his financial settlement is contingent upon his not disparaging Estée Lauder, and he declined, through a lawyer, to comment for this article.) 25, he said that he hadn’t read the meme. “John Demsey was one of the first people to break that cycle.” Nepotism toward white models, nepotism toward white actors, and nepotism toward white editors,” said Steve Stoute, who in the 1990s headed Urban Music at Sony Music and became the executive vice president of Interscope Geffen A&M and then started a marketing and branding agency, Translation, working with the N.B.A., the N.F.L., Jay-Z, Nas and Beyoncé, among others. “Racism may not be the way to describe everything that’s wrong with the business, but it is certainly dominated by nepotism. Demsey is an executive whose past three decades were a case study in diversity being good for business, and some of his most prominent defenders are members of fashion’s Black power elite. of CrossFit, posted a tweet that made light of the killing of George Floyd, and spoke belligerently to CrossFit gym owners about race in a video call.īut Mr.
John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John’s, used a racial slur on a conference call Greg Glassman, the founder and C.E.O. Over the past few years, powerful white executives have lost their jobs because of racist statements they made to employees and others.
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He lined the walls of his Upper East Side townhouse, which Aerin Lauder described as “more is more,” with photographs of Grace Jones, Marilyn Monroe and Nicki Minaj, and built his active social life around progressive causes and the arts, as a Democratic donor and fund-raiser, as a trustee of the Apollo Theater, and as chairman of the MAC AIDS Fund, which, through its Viva Glam Campaign, raised more than $500 million for H.I.V./AIDS causes. He put Lil’ Kim and Missy Elliott in ad campaigns, gave Sean Combs his own fragrance line and helped bring to market a perfume from Tom Ford with a profane name that ends in “fabulous.” Demsey, 66, was unusually well known, a splashy marketer with a taste for provocation. Working in an industry that generates huge profits while remaining fashion’s quieter stepsister, Mr. He also posted voraciously on social media. John Demsey, the beauty executive who became an industry goliath by turning MAC Cosmetics into one of Estée Lauder’s biggest subsidiaries, spent much of the first year of the pandemic in his home doing things that befit a high-flying corporate executive: Zooming with colleagues, bringing home a goldendoodle, adding to his collection of Audemars Piguets and Rolexes.
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