Followed by 1.1 million followers on Instagram, Jocelyn Wildenstein was known for her numerous facial cosmetic procedures and the legends surrounding her physical transformation, with some saying that she wanted to look like a feline at all costs or that she had spent millions to achieve this.
A jet-set figure, nicknamed “the cat woman”, Jocelyne Wildenstein died on Tuesday in Paris, her companion told AFP on Wednesday, confirming information from the celebrity press. “Her companion Lloyd Klein is saddened to announce the death of Jocelyn Wildensetein in Paris at the age of 79,” he told AFP on Wednesday. An “icon is gone”. She died of a pulmonary embolism in a Parisian palace, he said.
A media divorce
Born in Lausanne (Switzerland) on September 7, 1945, Jocelyn Perisset entered the world of New York high society by marrying the art dealer Alec Wildenstein, whose surname she kept after their divorce in 1998 and with whom she had two children.
Living between New York and Miami, Jocelyne Wildenstein recently gave several television interviews in France where she discussed her highly publicized divorce and her operations. “My (ex) husband thought it was a very good advertisement to broadcast during the divorce,” she said recently in a program presented by Cyril Hanouna.
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