Jocelyn Wildenstein’s “Catwoman” will be cremated and flown to Kenya
Jocelyn Wildenstein in September 2022.
(Craig Barritt/Getty Images for FENDI)Jocelyn Wildenstein will be cremated after her death on New Year’s Eve.
A Swiss socialite who gained notoriety – and the nickname “Catwoman” for her plastic surgery that made her look like a cat – has died peacefully in sleep while staying at the Paris Palace on Tuesday, December 31. She was 84 years old.
Wildenstein’s longtime partner, Lloyd Klein, said TMZ on Monday, January 6, that she will be cremated and her remains will be transported to her ranch in Kenya after an intimate burial in Paris. According to the outlet, the ranch houses her father’s grave and her mother’s ashes.
A few days earlier, Klein had opened People that Wildenstein was battling phlebitis, which is inflammation of the veins near the 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, Jan. 1, after her death was announced, TMZ reported that Wildenstein filmed (…)
“Because of her phlebitis, her legs were very, very swollen, the blood was blocked and there was no oxygen to her brain,” Klein told the Jan. 2 publication. “And we took a nap, and when I woke up, I said, ‘Jocelyn, we need to wake up, we need to get dressed,’ and she was cold and dead.”
At the time, he noted: “It’s very sad. … It’s very sad to go to bed with my significant other, whom I’ve known for 21 years and wait to celebrate the New Year, and find her cold.”
Before her death, Wildenstein (born Jocelyn Perisette) garnered headlines about her exaggerated cosmetic surgery. After the first surgical procedure in the late 1970s, observers began comparing Wildenstein’s eye lift to the trot 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 breakup and legal battle was widely covered in the media, and Alec spoke out Fair of vanity at the time, he lacked insight into the number of surgeries his then-wife underwent, despite reports that he encouraged her dramatic physical transformation.
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“She was crazy. I would always be the last to know,” he said The Times. “She thought she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin doesn’t work like that. But she didn’t listen.”
Jocelyn, for her part, said The Times in June 2023 her ex-husband “hired a PR guy 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 nicknamed “Wildenstein’s bride” due to her surgeries, eventually prevailed. She reportedly won a $2.5 billion divorce settlement, 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 one of his Lloyd Klein Couture shows. He reportedly proposed to Jocelyn in 2017 at the Versace mansion in Miami.
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