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Jocelyn Wildenstein in September 2022.
(Craig Barritt/Getty Images for FENDI)Jocelyn Wildenstein she will be cremated after her death on New Year’s Eve.
The Swiss socialite who rose to fame – and was nicknamed “Catwoman” for her cat-like plastic surgery – has died. peacefully in your sleep while staying at the Paris Palace on Tuesday, December 31. She was 84 years old.
Wildenstein’s longtime partner, Lloyd Klein, he told TMZ on Monday, January 6, that she will be cremated and her remains will be taken to her ranch in Kenya after an intimate burial in Paris. According to the source, the ranch is where her father’s grave is located and where her mother’s ashes are located.
A few days earlier, Klein revealed People that Wildenstein was battling phlebitis, which is inflammation of the veins near your skin due to blood clots.
Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images Jocelyn Wildenstein, the socialite known as “Catwoman,” filmed a reality TV show before her death, TMZ reports. Wildenstein died on Tuesday, Dec. 31, in Paris at the age of 84, her partner Lloyd Klein said. On Wednesday, January 1, after news of her death broke, TMZ reported that Wildenstein was filming (…)
“Because of her phlebitis, her legs were very, very swollen and the blood was congested and there was no oxygen to the brain,” Klein told the Jan. 2 outlet. “And we took a nap, and when I woke up I said, ‘Jocelyn, we have to wake up, we have to get dressed,’ and she was cold and dead.”
At the time he commented: “It’s very sad. … It is extremely sad to lie down with my other half, whom I have known for 21 years, and wait for the celebration of New Year’s Eve and her cold one.”
Before his death, Wildenstein (née Jocelyne Périsset) garnered her headlines excessive cosmetic surgery. After her first surgery in the late 1970s, observers began comparing Wildenstein’s eye lift to a lynx she kept as a pet.
Wildenstein was also known for her marriage to a billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein. The two married in 1978 and divorced in 1999. Their separation and legal battle received a lot of media coverage, with Alec saying Vanity Fair at the time, he had no say in how many surgeries his then-wife underwent, despite reports that he was supportive of her dramatic physical transformation.
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“She was crazy. I would always be the last to find out,” 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 for her part said The Times in June 2023 that her ex-husband “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to confirm that I had completely changed my face” so he could “win a divorce”.
However, Jocelyn – who was also called the “Bride of Wildenstein” due to her surgeries – eventually prevailed. She is said to have won $2.5 billion in the divorce and laughed all the way to the bank.
Alec died in 2008 after a battle with cancer, and Jocelyn moved on to Klein in 2003. She met the designer after attending one of his Lloyd Klein Couture fashion shows. He reportedly proposed to Jocelyn in 2017 at the Versace Mansion in Miami.
