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2023-06-19 08:37:05 UTC
Reclusive socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, known as the Catwoman due to her
extensive plastic surgery, talked about how she is broke ahead of an upcoming
HBO documentary about her life and a reality TV show.
Wildenstein claims she has not had any income at all for the last eight
years, after her late ex-husbands former family cut her off from her $100
million annual divorce settlement payment.
The Swiss-born socialite decided to make two-part docuseries and potential TV
show produced by the team behind Keeping Up With the Kardashians because
all of her money is gone.
I have a huge problem with my settlement, she told The Telegraph at the the
luxurious Maybourne hotel in Los Angeles. Since eight years, they have
completely cut me off.
Wildenstein, 82, rose to fame in the 1990s during her high-profile divorce
from her art-dealing husband, Alec Wildenstein, from which she received a
whopping $2.5 billion in the settlement and $100 million each year
afterwards.
Wildenstein said that the family of her late husband, who died from prostate
cancer in 2008, ended the annual payments in 2015.
In May 2018, she filed for bankruptcy.
At the time she listed her checking account balance as $0 but still had
millions of dollars in assets mostly property.
Her three luxury apartments in Trump Towers were subsequently repossessed.
She told the Telegraph that today she still has no income at all.
Zero nothing in eight years, she said.
Her longtime fiancé, 56-year-old French-Canadian designer Lloyd Klein, told
the paper that the documentary is her reply to the public, who have
scrutinized Wildensteins up and down life as well as her infamous plastic
surgeries.
Jocelyn wants to tell the story with her own voice, he said.
Ive never been public. Its not my nature, Wildenstein said.
Klein has even larger media ambitions for Wildenstein:
Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.
I want to have a movie series on Jocelyns life, and I would like to have
Jennifer Lawrence as a young Jocelyn, he says, adding that he would choose
Remi Malik to play Alec Wildenstein.
Throughout her career in the public eye, rumors abounded that Alec
Wildenstein, who loved cats, encouraged his wife to get surgeries to make her
appear more feline, according to The Telegraph.
In an interview with Vanity Fair during their tumultuous split, Alec denied
that he made her change her face.
She was crazy. I would always find out last. She was thinking that she could
fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin does not work that way. But she
wouldnt listen.
Weinstein said she called for an end to her 20-year marriage with Alec when
he started flaunting his extramarital affairs in public.
It was getting too obvious. It was young girls and going to the same
restaurants we went to. It was no discretion, nothing, she says.
Wildenstein told The Telegraph that Alec had planted the stories about her
surgeries to win the divorce, and even hired a publicist and paid a
plastic surgeon to certify that I completely changed my face.
He couldnt say I betrayed him; I never betrayed him, she said.
Her husband, she said, insisted that She became a monster I dont
recognise her. He put all the blame on my face.
Wildenstein ultimately won the settlement and the right to keep her ex-
husbands last name.
--
Let's go Brandon!
extensive plastic surgery, talked about how she is broke ahead of an upcoming
HBO documentary about her life and a reality TV show.
Wildenstein claims she has not had any income at all for the last eight
years, after her late ex-husbands former family cut her off from her $100
million annual divorce settlement payment.
The Swiss-born socialite decided to make two-part docuseries and potential TV
show produced by the team behind Keeping Up With the Kardashians because
all of her money is gone.
I have a huge problem with my settlement, she told The Telegraph at the the
luxurious Maybourne hotel in Los Angeles. Since eight years, they have
completely cut me off.
Wildenstein, 82, rose to fame in the 1990s during her high-profile divorce
from her art-dealing husband, Alec Wildenstein, from which she received a
whopping $2.5 billion in the settlement and $100 million each year
afterwards.
Wildenstein said that the family of her late husband, who died from prostate
cancer in 2008, ended the annual payments in 2015.
In May 2018, she filed for bankruptcy.
At the time she listed her checking account balance as $0 but still had
millions of dollars in assets mostly property.
Her three luxury apartments in Trump Towers were subsequently repossessed.
She told the Telegraph that today she still has no income at all.
Zero nothing in eight years, she said.
Her longtime fiancé, 56-year-old French-Canadian designer Lloyd Klein, told
the paper that the documentary is her reply to the public, who have
scrutinized Wildensteins up and down life as well as her infamous plastic
surgeries.
Jocelyn wants to tell the story with her own voice, he said.
Ive never been public. Its not my nature, Wildenstein said.
Klein has even larger media ambitions for Wildenstein:
Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.
I want to have a movie series on Jocelyns life, and I would like to have
Jennifer Lawrence as a young Jocelyn, he says, adding that he would choose
Remi Malik to play Alec Wildenstein.
Throughout her career in the public eye, rumors abounded that Alec
Wildenstein, who loved cats, encouraged his wife to get surgeries to make her
appear more feline, according to The Telegraph.
In an interview with Vanity Fair during their tumultuous split, Alec denied
that he made her change her face.
She was crazy. I would always find out last. She was thinking that she could
fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin does not work that way. But she
wouldnt listen.
Weinstein said she called for an end to her 20-year marriage with Alec when
he started flaunting his extramarital affairs in public.
It was getting too obvious. It was young girls and going to the same
restaurants we went to. It was no discretion, nothing, she says.
Wildenstein told The Telegraph that Alec had planted the stories about her
surgeries to win the divorce, and even hired a publicist and paid a
plastic surgeon to certify that I completely changed my face.
He couldnt say I betrayed him; I never betrayed him, she said.
Her husband, she said, insisted that She became a monster I dont
recognise her. He put all the blame on my face.
Wildenstein ultimately won the settlement and the right to keep her ex-
husbands last name.
--
Let's go Brandon!
