FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
Johnston Lori A

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O CELANESE CORPORATION
222 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD., SUITE 900N

(Street)
IRVING TX 75039-5421

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Celanese Corp [ CE ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
SVP, Human Resources
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
10/17/2014
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Series A Common Stock 10/17/2014   F   6,994 (1) D $ 54.42 36,079 D  
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
1. Shares withheld for the payment of taxes on the vesting of restricted stock units granted to the reporting person on October 17, 2012.
Remarks:
Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney
/s/ Jacqueline R. Hall, Attorney-in-Fact for Lori A. Johnston 10/20/2014
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY                                       Exhibit 24
      
Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes
and appoints Gjon N. Nivica, Jr., James R. Peacock III, and Jacqueline R. 
Hall, signing singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on 
behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:

(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's 
behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 
("SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other 
documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords 
enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of 
reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 
as amended (the "Exchange Act") or any rules or regulations of the SEC;

(2) prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5 and 
Forms 144 (including any amendments thereto) and any other forms or 
reports required with respect to the securities of Celanese Corporation, a 
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the United States Securities 
and Exchange Commission and any national securities exchanges, as 
considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Exchange 
Act or similar provisions of securities laws; 

(3) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the 
undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's 
securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan 
administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any 
such person to release any such information to the undersigned and 
approves and ratifies any such release of information; and

(4) perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such 
attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the 
undersigned in connection with the foregoing.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

(1) this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, such attorney-
in-fact to act in his or her discretion on information provided to such
attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;

(2) any documents prepared and/or executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf 
of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be in such form 
and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in 
his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

(3) neither Celanese nor such attorneys-in-fact assumes
 
(i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the 
requirements of the Exchange Act,
 
(ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such 
requirements, or 

(iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement
under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

(4) this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility
for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the Exchange Act,
including without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of 
the Exchange Act.
   
The undersigned hereby gives and grants each foregoing attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing 
matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could 
do if present, hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact, for and on
behalf of the undersigned, will lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of 
this Power of Attorney.
      
This Power of Attorney will remain in full force and effect until the 
undersigned is no longer required to file the forms noted above with respect 
to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in the Company's securities, 
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the 
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
      
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of the date set forth below.

/s/ Lori A. Johnston                
Signature

Name: Lori A. Johnston

Dated: 1.7.2014