what did “the cat lady” look like before her operations?

“An icon is gone”. It was with these few words that Lloyd Klein, Jocelyne Wildenstein’s companion 27 years her junior, announced the news of her disappearance to AFP. This December 31, 2024, this personality known worldwide under the nickname “the cat woman”due to her numerous cosmetic surgeries giving her a feline appearance, died of a pulmonary embolism in Paris at the age of 79. Found unconscious in her hotel room, she died in hospital. His face transformed by numerous operations contributed to his fame. Since 1980, she had been trying to have feline-like features “to please her husband”Alec Wildenstein, who was passionate about these animals according to Public . However, this did not have the desired effect. Her ex-husband would have been horrified when he discovered her new face and would have started divorce proceedings.

Before these operations, Jocelyne Wildenstein was a completely different woman. On the set of the C8 show Don’t Touch My Post last October, she commented on certain photographs that showed her before these changes. In one of them, she is wearing a ballet outfit and has short hair. “I must have been 14/15 years old. I can’t remember”she clarified to Cyril Hanouna. In another photo that she had posted on her Instagram account, now deleted, we saw her at the birth of her second child, Alec Jr, born in 1980. She was carrying her newborn and Diane, her daughter born in the year previous, in his arms. On these two archives, she had not yet carried out an operation. During her interview, Jocelyne Wildenstein looked at these photos with emotion.

Why was Jocelyne Wildenstein at risk of being arrested before her disappearance?

According to information from Daily Mail Jocelyne Wildenstein was at risk of being arrested before her death. The reason? She allegedly ignored numerous court orders regarding an unpaid debt amounting to $344,000 (approximately €415,000). Last October, she was summoned to a contempt of court hearing, but she never attended. Furthermore, she was also at the heart of eviction proceedings from her apartment in Miami Beach in the United States.

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.