Sometimes it pays to be one of Manhattan’s top philanthropists. Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of Estée Lauder, was allowed to skip the long voting line at Hunter College. Witnesses said he “was able to cut in line ahead of Martin Scorsese and the other 1-percenters . . . if you donate you don’t have to stand in line.” The source said Lauder had made a Hunter donation on behalf of his late wife Evelyn, who was a student there when they met. But a source close to the mogul told us Lauder, 79, stood in line three times Tuesday for long waits. On his third try, “He stood in line for over half an hour,” when a worker who had known Evelyn gave him a break and ushered him in. Also voting on the UES: Téa Leoni, Paula Zahn, Jim Chanos and Anthony Marshall’s wife, Charlene (or as Brooke Astor called her, “that bitch”). Joan Rivers was spotted, in a huge fur, clutching an American flag at an East 60th Street polling station. “People were being pushed in wheelchairs, when some guy said, ‘Is this a hospital or a voting station?’” a spy said.