Catwoman Jocelyn Wildenstein dead at 84: Former billionaire was famed for extreme plastic surgery
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Jocelyn Wildenstein has died at the age of 84.
The socialite, nicknamed Catwoman because she reportedly had many facial cosmetic procedures in the hopes of resembling a cat, passed away on Tuesday in Paris from a pulmonary embolism.
The star, born Jocelyne Périsset, was in a Parisian palace at the time of her death, it was reported by Paris Match.
She had over 1 million Instagram followers and described herself as an 'art dealer.'
This Swiss-born socialite came from humble origins, only to tie the knot in the 1970s with a French-born American billionaire.
But the two courted headlines just over two decades later with their messy divorce.
She became one of the wealthiest people on the planet after her divorce settlement, which left her with more than $2 billion, plus millions more annually.
But she somehow managed to lose it all after years of tinkering with her face and spending on countless luxuries.
The high society fixture was married to the late art dealer and billionaire Alec N. Wildenstein, who was the son of the French art dealer and horse breeder Daniel Wildenstein.
Their family presided over Wildenstein & Co., an influential Paris-based art dealership.
While speaking to The Times of London, Jocelyn described how she became fascinated by Africa and its fauna after finding a box of picture books about the continent when she was a child.
Later, she developed an interest in hunting and wildlife, which led her to the Wildenstein family ranch Ol Jogi, located in Kenya.