The jet-setter known for her numerous cosmetic surgery operations, died of a pulmonary embolism in a Parisian palace.
Jocelyne Wildenstein, a jet-set figure nicknamed “the cat woman” because of her numerous recourse to cosmetic surgery, died 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.
Some sources indicate that she was 84 years old, and that she was born on the same day and year as her ex-husband, Alec Wildenstein, on August 5, 1940.
She herself indicated in an interview with Jordan Deluxe in November 2024: “I'm 79 years old, I just had my birthday, September 7. I believe that (on the Internet) they put my husband's date, August 5 “.
Aesthetic procedures
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.
Living between New York and Miami, she had recently given several interviews on television in France where she spoke about 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, when asked about the reasons for her divorce, attributed to her physical transformation.
“I think my eyes have always looked a little feline, I was born like that. Maybe that would please,” she said on the set of Jordan Deluxe who asked her if she had had surgery aesthetic to look like a cat.
Born in Lausanne in Switzerland, Jocelyn Perisset entered the world of New York high society by marrying the French art dealer Alec Wildenstein in 1978, whose surname she kept after their divorce in 1998 and with whom she had two children. .
