Jocelyn Wildenstein in September 2022. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for FENDI)
Jocelyn Wildenstein will be cremated after her death on New Year’s Eve.
The Swiss socialite who gained notoriety – and the nickname “Catwoman” for her plastic surgery that made her look like a cat – has died peacefully in your sleep during his stay at a Paris palace on Tuesday, December 31. She was 84 years old.
Wildenstein’s longtime partner, Lloyd Klein, told TMZ on Monday, January 6, that she will be cremated, with her remains transported to her ranch in Kenya after an intimate burial in Paris. According to the publication, the ranch is where her father’s grave is and where her mother’s ashes are.
Days earlier, Klein revealed to 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 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 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 Jan. 2 edition. “And we were taking 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.”
At the time, he noted: “It’s very sad. … It’s extremely sad to go to bed with your partner who I’ve known for 21 years and I’m waiting to celebrate New Year’s and find her cold.”
Before her death, Wildenstein (born Jocelyn Perisset) garnered headlines for her exaggerated cosmetic surgery. After her first surgical procedure in the late 1970s, observers began comparing Wildenstein’s eye lift to that of a lynx she kept as a pet.
Wildenstein was also famous for her marriage to a billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein. They married in 1978. and divorced in 1999. Their breakup and legal battle received heavy media coverage, as Alec recounted Vanity Fair at the time, he had no say in how many surgeries his then-wife had, despite reports that he encouraged her dramatic physical transformation.
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“She was crazy. I would always be the last to learn,” he claims according to 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, for her part, said The Times in June 2023 that her ex-husband “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to certify that I had completely changed my face” so he could “win the divorce.”
However, Jocelyn – who was also dubbed the “Bride of Wildenstein” for her surgeries – ultimately triumphed. 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 reportedly proposed to Jocelyn in 2017. at the Versace Mansion in Miami.
