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Jocelyn Wildenstein in September 2022.
(Craig Barritt/Getty Images for FENDI)Jocelyn Wildenstein is cremated following her death on New Year’s Eve.
The Swiss socialite, who gained fame – and the moniker “Catwoman” for her feline-like plastic surgery – has died quietly in her sleep while staying in a Paris palace, Tuesday, December 31. She was 84 years old.
Wildenstein’s long-term partner, Lloyd Klein, to TMZ on Monday, January 6, she will be cremated, with her remains taken to her ranch in Kenya following a close funeral in Paris. According to the outlet, the ranch is the site of her father’s grave and where her mother’s ashes lie.
Days earlier, Klein revealed i People that Wildenstein battled 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, according to TMZ. Wildenstein died on Tuesday, December 31, in Paris at the age of 84, said her partner, Lloyd Klein. On Wednesday, January 1, after news of her death broke, TMZ reported that Wildenstein filmed (…)
“Because of her phlebitis, the legs were very, very swollen, and the blood was blocked, and there was no oxygen to the brain,” Klein told the outlet on Jan. 2. “And we were having 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 she was dead.”
He noted at the time, “It’s very sad. … It’s incredibly sad lying with your other half who I’ve known for 21 years and waiting to celebrate New Year’s Eve and have it cold.”
Before her death, Wildenstein (born Jocelyne Périsset) was collecting headlines for her exaggerated cosmetic surgery. Following his first surgical procedure in the late 1970s, observers began to compare Wildenstein’s eye lift to that of a lynx, which he kept as a pet.
Wildenstein was also known for her marriage to a billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein. They married in 1978 and divorced in 1999. Their split and legal battle received heavy media coverage, with Alec saying Vanity fair at the time when he had no say in how much surgery his wife underwent at the time, despite reports that he encouraged her dramatic physical transformation.
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“She was crazy. We will always find out last,” he claimed, back The Times. “She thought she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin doesn’t work that way. But she wouldn’t listen.”
Jocelyn said, for her part The Times in June 2023 that her ex-husband “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to testify that I had completely changed my face” so he could “win the divorce.”
However, Jocelyn – who was also called the “Bride of Wildenstein” because of her surgeries – triumphed in the end. She reportedly won $2.5 billion in the divorce, laughing all the way to the bank.
Alec died in 2008 after a battle with cancer, and Jocelyn moved on with Klein in 2003. She met the designer after attending one of his Lloyd Klein Couture fashion shows. He was said to have proposed to Jocelyn in 2017 at the Versace Mansion in Miami.
