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Jocelyn Wildenstein
Craig Barritt/Getty ImagesJocelyn Wildenstein died on Tuesday, December 31. She was 84.
Wildenstein’s partner, Lloyd Kleintold AFP the Swiss socialite died in Paris while staying at the palace after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Match in Paris. A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that “blocks and stops blood flow” to an artery in the lungs. Mayo Clinic.
“The icon is gone,” Klein told the paper, noting that he was “pained” by the loss of Wildenstein.
Before her death, Wildenstein (née Jocelyne Périsset) made headlines for her extreme plastic surgery it made her resemble a cat. The work led to her being dubbed “Catwoman”.
After her first surgery in the late 1970s, fans began comparing Wildenstein’s eye lift to a lynx he had as a pet.
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Jocelyn was also known for her marriage to a billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein. The two married in 1978 and divorced in 1999. Their split and legal battle received heavy media coverage.
Alec said Vanity Fair at the time of their split, that he had no say in how many surgeries his wife underwent, despite reports that he encouraged her to change her appearance.
“She was crazy. I would always be the last to know,” he claimed in his own words The Times. “She thought she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin doesn’t work that way. But she didn’t listen.”
Jocelyn said The Times in June 2023, Alec “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to confirm that I had completely changed my face” so he could “win the divorce”.
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In the end, though, it was Jocelyn – who was also called the “Bride of Wildenstein” in the press because of her surgeries. She was reportedly awarded $2.5 billion in the divorce.
For each of the following 13 years, she was said to have received an additional $100 million. “They’re going to live happily ever after – but apart,” Alec’s lawyer reportedly said at the time The Times. (Alec died in 2008 after a battle with cancer.)
Jocelyn moved in with Klein in 2003, whom she met after attending one of his Lloyd Klein Couture fashion shows. The designer reportedly proposed to Jocelyn in 2017 at the Versace Mansion in Miami.
In 2023, Klein claimed that Jocelyn ran out of money. She later claimed she had not received any payments from the Wildensteins since 2015, leading to her filing for bankruptcy three years later.
“I have a huge problem with my settlement,” Jocelyn said The Times in June 2023. “I was completely cut off from the age of eight.” Her lack of finances led Jocelyn to star in her own HBO documentaries in 2023.
Jocelyn is survived by her and Alec’s children, son Alec Jr. and a daughter, Diane.
