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Wildenstein is known for her extravagant life. She once calculated her yearly telephone bill at $ 60,000 and food and wine costs at $ 547,000. Wildenstein received $ 2.5 billion in her divorce settlement (although this amount has been rumored to be as high as $ 3.8 billion) and $ 100 million each
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The
Wildensteins' divorce in 1999 was not amicable. Jocelyn walked in on her husband and a 21-year-old Russian model in her bedroom at the Wildenstein New York home, and he threatened Jocelyn with a gun. This resulted in a night in jail for Alec Wildenstein. The presiding judge, Marilyn Diamond,
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Wildenstein has had extensive cosmetic surgeries to her face. Her catlike appearance has led media outlets to nickname her "Catwoman", "The Lion Queen", and "The Bride of
Wildenstein". She denies having excessive plastic surgery, citing her Swiss heritage, but admitted to a multi-million dollar
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at a shooting weekend at the
Wildenstein African ranch "Ol Jogi" in 1977. PĂ©risset and Wildenstein eloped to Las Vegas on 30 April 1978 and had two children together. There were suspicions that she may have been a prostitute before meeting Wildenstein, but it has never been proven.
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year for the following 13 years. The judge stipulated that she could not use any alimony payments for further cosmetic surgery. Following her divorce, Wildenstein sold the marital home in New York to real estate developer Janna
Bullock for $ 13 million.
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surgery to make her eyes more cat-like which she did with her husband. According to Alec
Wildenstein, "She was thinking that she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin does not work that way. But she wouldn’t listen".
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received death threats in the mail during the proceedings. During her divorce, the judge stipulated that she could not use any alimony payments for further cosmetic surgery. Jocelyn enlisted the services of
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in 2023 that she attributes her financial difficulties to problems with the trust set up following her divorce, and that in 2015 the family of Alec
Wildenstein had cut her off from payments.
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bankruptcy protection, claiming she had $ 0 in her bank account and listing various tangible assets of $ 16.39 million against $ 6.38 million in liabilities. In 2020 her three apartments in
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for public relations assistance and at various times both
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Felder, Raoul; Victor, Barbara (2011). "The
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Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture
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943:. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
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424:Felder & Victor 2011
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1145:"What Money Can't Buy"
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1223:People from Lausanne
1031:. New York: Pocket.
891:Bibliography – books
340:"Jocelyne's Revenge"
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1228:Former billionaires
1027:The Art of Cheating
581:The Washington Post
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497:, pp. 164–165.
166:Alec N. Wildenstein
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1218:Wildenstein family
827:The New York Times
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