‘Catwoman’ Jocelyn Wildenstein looked happy and healthy in last public outing days before shock death at 84

‘Catwoman’ Jocelyn Wildenstein looked happy and healthy during her last public outing in France on December 18 – days before her shock death at the age of 84.

The socialite and social media star’s death was announced on Wednesday, with her longtime partner Lloyd Klein confirming she had died of a pulmonary embolism.

Wildenstein, known for her drastic plastic surgeries, looked as glamorous as ever as she and Klein, 57, arrived for dinner at the Ritz Paris.

The couple held hands and posed happily together just weeks before her death.

The star smiled at onlookers as she wore a fur coat, leggings and boots, black sunglasses and wore her blonde hair in soft waves over her shoulders.

Wildenstein, born Jocelyne Périsset, was in a Parisian palace at the time of her death, it is reported by Paris competition.

“Her partner Lloyd Klein is saddened to announce the death of Jocelyn Wildenstein in Paris,” was shared by AFP.

She was nicknamed Catwoman because of her pronounced cat eyes and lion-like facial features.

She had over 1 million Instagram followers and described herself as an ‘art dealer’.

This Swiss-born socialite came from humble beginnings, but married a French-born American billionaire in the 1970s.

But more than twenty years later, the two made headlines with their messy divorce.

She became one of the richest people in the world after her divorce settlement, which left her with more than $2 billion, plus millions more each year.

But somehow she managed to lose it all after years of tinkering with her face and spending on countless luxury items.

The high society figure was married to the late art dealer and billionaire Alec N. Wildenstein, the son of French art dealer and horse breeder Daniel Wildenstein.

Their family controlled Wildenstein & Co., an influential art dealer in Paris.

While you’re talking to The Times of LondonJocelyn described how she became fascinated with Africa and its wildlife after finding a box of picture books about the continent as a child.

She later developed an interest in hunting and wildlife, which led her to the Wildenstein family farm Ol Jogi, located in Kenya.

There she was introduced to Alec on safari by Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer.

Jocelyn remembered how Alec decided to kill a lion that had killed nearby antelopes, so she accompanied him on a pre-dawn mission.

She told how, after her future husband shot the lion with one shot – plus a second for good measure – they ate part of the animal as a sort of trophy and rubbed the blood on their necks.

“You have to eat some of the heart of your game,” she said. ‘It’s a legend. Perhaps to take over the lion’s power.’

She recently shared a flashback photo.

‘My early years at Ol Jogi built this beautiful ranch from scratch before I had children. This was my first love story with Africa and it started here at #oljogi,” she captioned the beautiful photo.

Although she did not date the photo, it appeared to have been taken in the late 1970s or early 1980s, early in her relationship with Wildenstein.

But by the ’90s, Jocelyn was completely unrecognizable after her face was reportedly transformed by numerous cosmetic surgeries.

They left her with slanted cat eyes, a prominent chin and exaggerated cheekbones, which some compare to the face of a lion.

Despite the obvious change in her appearance, Wildenstein once bizarrely claimed that she had never had plastic surgery.

Alec did comment on her face. He told Vanity Fair: ‘She was crazy. I would always be the last to find out. She thought she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. That’s not how the skin works. But she wouldn’t listen.’

Wildenstein denied that he “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to confirm that I had completely changed my face” to win the divorce, she stated.

More recently, she has admitted to having undergone a number of procedures, although she downplayed their impact.

In the wake of years of excessive spending and seemingly endless cosmetic procedures, Alec filed for divorce in 1999, although Jocelyn has said that she was the one who first decided to end the marriage due to her husband’s infidelity.

Although he filed for divorce in Switzerland, where Jocelyn was less likely to receive a significant divorce settlement, she ultimately received what should have been a windfall: a reported $2.5 billion.

In addition, her ex-husband would receive her $100 million per year for thirteen years, and later his estate after his death in 2008 at the age of 67.

However, her ex-husband’s family stopped the payments in 2015.

Despite acquiring more wealth than most people could ever imagine, Wildenstein managed to squander it through extravagant purchases of clothing, jewelry, art, and even tens of thousands of dollars in annual telephone bills.

In 2018, she claimed to Page Six that the vast majority of her wealth had disappeared because one of the paintings that were part of the trust set up for her in the divorce settlement, attributed to Diego Velázquez, turned out to be a forgery, while a Cézanne , which was expected to fetch about $35 at auction, only sold for $4.7 million

After her divorce, Wildenstein began dating fashion designer Lloyd Klein in 2003.

The two later got engaged, but they have had a bumpy relationship over the years.

In 2016, Wildenstein was arrested for cutting Klein’s face with scissors during a fight in her Trump Tower apartment.

Klein was then arrested days later for theft and assault after allegedly trying to retrieve some of his belongings from Wildenstein’s apartment.

But the pair were later reunited.