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CONTINGENCIES
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
CONTINGENCIES
CONTINGENCIES
The Company is involved in various routine legal proceedings incidental to the ordinary course of its business. The Company believes that the outcome of all pending legal proceedings in the aggregate is unlikely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and/or its results of operations. However, in light of the uncertainties involved in legal proceedings generally, the ultimate outcome of a particular matter could be material to the Company’s operating results for a particular period depending on, among other things, the size of the loss or the nature of the liability imposed and the level of the Company’s income for that particular period.

As previously disclosed in Revlon, Inc.'s 2012 Form 10-K, Revlon, Inc., certain of Revlon, Inc.'s current and former directors and MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. entered into settlement agreements with the plaintiffs in class and derivative actions related to the voluntary exchange offer Revlon, Inc. launched and consummated in 2009 (the "2009 Exchange Offer"). In the second quarter of 2012, the Company recorded a charge of $6.7 million with respect to the Company’s then-estimated costs of resolving the actions, including the Company's estimate at that time of additional payments to be made to the settling stockholders. This charge is included within SG&A expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012.

In March 2013, the parties executed an amendment to one of the settlement agreements, specifically the class action settlement agreement. The amendment did not affect the financial terms of the class action settlement; rather, it modified the scope of the releases given by those class members who did not participate in the 2009 Exchange Offer.  Later in March 2013, the class action settlement, as amended, was presented to the Delaware Court of Chancery, and approved. The class action settlement is conditioned, and will be effective, upon final approval of the derivative action settlement and final dismissal of the actions pending outside of the Delaware Court of Chancery. The derivative action settlement was approved by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on April 30, 2013. In early May 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware dismissed the purported class action filed by John Garofalo, and in late July 2013, the Supreme Court of New York, New York County dismissed the Sullivan action. The entire settlement of all the actions noted above will become effective if no appeal is filed within thirty days of the dismissal of the Sullivan action.

Revlon, Inc. agreed with the staff of the SEC (or the “Commission”) on the terms of a proposed settlement of an investigation relating to certain disclosures made by Revlon, Inc. in its public filings in 2009 in connection with the 2009 Exchange Offer. On June 13, 2013, the Commission approved such settlement and Revlon, Inc. entered into the settlement without admitting or denying the findings set forth therein and, pursuant to its terms, Revlon, Inc., among other things, paid a civil penalty of $850,000. The settlement amount was previously accrued in the fourth quarter of 2012 within SG&A expenses and accrued expenses and other in Revlon, Inc.'s consolidated financial statements.