According to the “Daily Mail”, Jocelyn Wildenstein left behind a debt of $344,000, which could have landed her in prison if she had returned to Miami.
Known for her numerous cosmetic surgery operations, which gave her face a feline look, Jocelyn Wildenstein died on Tuesday December 31 in a Parisian palace. Iconic figure of the jet-set, the 79-year-old woman died of a pulmonary embolism, but according to the “Daily Mail”, another illness was gnawing at her. The socialite was reportedly summoned to court in Miami, in the US state of Florida, on October 23 over a debt matter and as she failed to appear, she was reportedly under arrest warrant.
According to our colleagues, an American company, Regal Jewelry and Gift Shop, filed a complaint against Jocelyn Wildenstein in 2018, accusing her of having stolen $268,000 worth of precious stones from them. The socialite would have been ordered to reimburse them this sum, to which would have been added $75,928 in interest, or a debt of $344,000. However, the one nicknamed the “cat woman” would not have paid this debt and would not have submitted certain mandatory documents on time, hence her summons to court on October 23.
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As a result, Jocelyn Wildenstein would have been the subject of eviction proceedings from her Miami Beach apartment and according to the indictment order, obtained by our colleagues, the judge would have ordered that Jocelyn Wildenstein be placed in pre-trial detention in case of arrest.
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Another high-profile arrest
After making headlines in the celebrity press for her juicy divorce from art dealer Alec Wildenstein (which unfortunately did not save her from bankruptcy), Jocelyn Wildenstein had already made the front page of magazines for legal troubles in 2016. The socialite was accused of having violently attacked her companion, the designer Lloyd Klein: she allegedly stabbed him with scissors and scratched his face with her long fingernails resembling claws. The couple nevertheless mended their ways in the weeks that followed and it was by his side that she ended her life.
