Jocelyne Wildenstein dead: Swiss socialite and cosmetic surgery aficionado dies in Paris

Jocelyne Wildenstein, pictured in New York in 2017 discussing her engagement to Lloyd Klein, has died in Paris. Photo / Getty Images

Jocelyne Wildenstein’s partner has revealed the star died “in Paris aged 79″ this week. The celebrity and society figure was 84, according to media reports.

Swiss socialite Jocelyne Wildenstein, also known as “catwoman” due to her extensive plastic surgery, has died aged 79, her partner Lloyd Klein said on Wednesday.

“An icon has left us,” Klein told AFP.

She died of a pulmonary embolism in a luxury hotel in Paris, he said.

Born in Switzerland in 1945, Jocelyn Perisset became a New York socialite after marrying art dealer Alec Wildenstein, with whom she had two children.

She kept his name after their messy divorce in the late 1990s.

The cosmetic surgery aficionado, with more than a million followers on Instagram, became known as “catwoman” in the tabloids for the feline-like shape of her eyes.

She had been living between New York and Miami, she told French media in recent months.

She last posted a video of herself and Klein posing for photographers outside the Ritz Paris on December 23, to the soundtrack of Wham’s Last Christmas.

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“I never wanted to change my face,” she told French television news channel C8 in autumn, though admitting she might have wanted her lips to be a little thicker.

She said she did not embark on cosmetic surgery to try to keep her ex-husband.