“Cat Woman” Jocelyne Wildenstein dies at 79

Swiss woman Jocelyne Wildenstein, known as the “Cat Woman” because of her face, which was shaped by extensive plastic surgery, has died at the age of 79. Her fiancé and long-time partner Lloyd Klein announced the celebrity’s “unexpected death” in a statement on Wednesday. She died “peacefully in her sleep” in a hotel suite where the couple had been staying since August 2024.

According to his own statements, Klein tried in vain to wake up his partner after a nap late on Tuesday afternoon so that she could get ready for the New Year’s Eve celebration. According to the doctors’ initial assessment, the 79-year-old died of heart failure in her sleep, he explained.

The Swiss woman was through her Married the art dealer Alec Wildenstein rose to high society in New York. The couple who had two children ended his marriage in the late 1990s with a turbulent divorce. Jocelyne Wildenstein not only kept her ex-husband’s last name, but also received $2.5 billion from him. She had been in a relationship with Klein, who was 21 years her junior, since 2001.

Wildenstein was particularly known for her Passionate about plastic surgery. She was nicknamed “Cat Woman” by the tabloids because of the cat-like shape of her eyes. She had more than a million followers on Instagram. She posted her last video on December 23rd. It showed her with Klein in front of the Ritz Hotel in Paris to the sounds of the Wham Christmas hit “Last Christmas”.