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 claiming that she desperately wanted to look like a feline or that she had spent millions to achieve this.
A jet-set figure, nicknamed “the cat woman”, Jocelyne Wildenstein died Tuesday in Paris, her companion announced to AFP on Wednesday, confirming information from the celebrity press. “Her companion Lloyd Klein is sad to announce the death of Jocelyn Wildensetein in Paris at the age of 79,” he told AFP on Wednesday. An “icon has disappeared”. 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 name 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 discusses 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.
