Jocelyn Wildenstein, the Swiss-born woman famous for her surgically achieved feline features that earned her the nickname “Catwoman” in the American press, has died. Her partner, Lloyd Klein, said she died of a pulmonary embolism in Paris.
Jocelyn Wildenstein died at the age of 84 PHOTO Profimedia
Wildenstein has been a staple of the New York tabloids, thanks to her tumultuous love life, drastic changes in appearance and the substantial payout she received following her divorce from a prominent art-world figure. Later, he claimed that he went bankrupt, after exhausting his billions, according to News.ro.
Her current partner, Lloyd Klein, told AFP that she died of a pulmonary embolism in Paris.
According to the quoted source, the woman often downplayed the extent of her plastic surgery, claiming that the “cat eyes” for which she was so famous were a family trait or that different hairstyles changed her appearance.
Jocelyn Wildenstein was known for the many plastic surgeries she had on her face and the legends surrounding her physical transformation, with some saying that she desperately wanted to look like a feline or that she spent millions to achieve it. She was followed by 1.1 million people on Instagram.
She was born into a middle-class family in Lausanne, and at 17 she began a relationship with a film producer. A few years later he arrived in Paris, and there he joined certain circles where he learned to hunt. Adnan Khashoggi, an Arab arms dealer and one of the richest people of those times (with a fortune of 4 billion dollars in the 80s) introduced her to her first husband, the art dealer Alec N. Wildenstein.
