Jocelyn Wildenstein in September 2022.
(Craig Barrett/Getty Images for FENDI)Jocelyn Wildenstein Her body will be cremated following her death on New Year's Eve.
The Swiss socialite, who gained notoriety – and was nicknamed 'Catwoman' due to plastic surgery that made her look like a cat – has died. Peacefully in her sleep During her stay in one of the Parisian palaces on Tuesday, December 31. She was 84 years old.
Longtime Wildenstein partner, Lloyd Klein, He told TMZ She will be cremated on Monday, January 6, and her remains will be transferred to her farm in Kenya after an intimate funeral in Paris. According to the outlet, the farm is the site of her father's grave and the location of her mother's ashes.
A few days ago, Klein revealed to… the people Wildenstein was suffering from phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins near the skin caused by blood clots.
Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images Jocelyn Wildenstein, the socialite known as “Catwoman,” filmed a reality TV show before her death, TMZ reports. Her partner, Lloyd Klein, said that Wildenstein died on Tuesday, December 31, in Paris, at the age of 84. On Wednesday, January 1, after news of her death broke, TMZ reported that Wildenstein photographed[…]
“Because of the phlebitis, her legs were very swollen, blood clogged, and there was no oxygen to the brain,” Klein told the outlet on January 2. I said, 'Jocelyn, we've got to get up, we've got to get dressed,' and she was cold and dead.
“It's very sad,” he noted at the time. …It's so sad to lie down with your other half who I've known for 21 years and wait to celebrate New Year's Eve and find it cold.
Before her death, Wildenstein (birth name Jocelyn Perissette) made headlines Exaggerated plastic surgery. After her first surgery in the late 1970s, observers began to compare Wildenstein's eye lift to that of a lynx, which she 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 separation and legal battle received extensive media coverage, Alec said. Vanity gallery At the time, he had no say in the amount of surgery his then-wife underwent, despite reports that he encouraged her dramatic physical transformation.
Hollywood mourned many celebrities in 2024, including Shannen Doherty and Liam Payne. Us Weekly confirmed Doherty's death on July 14. The Beverly Hills 90210 star first battled breast cancer from 2015 to 2017, and shared nearly three years later that it was back. In 2023, Doherty shared that her stage 4 breast cancer had spread to[…]
“It was crazy. I'll always find out last.” The times. “She was thinking she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin doesn't work that way. But she didn't listen.”
Jocelyn said for her part The times In June 2023, she said her ex-husband “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to certify that I completely changed my face” so he could “win the divorce.”
However, Jocelyn – who was also dubbed the “Bride of Wildenstein” due to her surgeries – ultimately prevailed. 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 in with Klein in 2003. She met the designer after attending a Lloyd Klein Couture show. He reportedly proposed to Jocelyn in 2017 at the Versace Mansion in Miami.
