What was ‘Catwoman’ Jocelyn Wildenstein’s net worth?
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The Swiss socialite received one of the biggest divorce settlements in history, with a payout of $2.5 billion. “Because of her phlebitis, the legs were very, very swollen, and the blood was blocked, and there was no oxygen in the brain,” Klein told the outlet, explaining how he and Wildenstein had planned to take a nap before going out on December 31.
![[Alec Wildenstein was a French art dealer who was married to Jocelyn Wildenstein for 21 years]](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2008/02/21/21/17116.jpg)
“When I wake up, I said, ‘Jocelyn, we have to wake up, we have to get dressed,’ and she was cold and she was dead,” he continued. Wildenstein’s death came as a massive shock to Klein, who’d known her for over 21 years. “We were at the Ritz two days ago. We were having dinner. Before that, we had come for Fashion Week at Chanel. Everything was good, everything was good,” he noted.
It wasn’t just Wildenstein’s feline-like appearance that intrigued the masses throughout her adult life. The self-proclaimed art dealer was also highly-regarded for her hefty divorce settlement of $2.5 billion, which she reportedly blew through, leaving her living paycheck to paycheck in the last few months of her life.
In 1978, she married her first and only husband, Alec Wildenstein, a famous French art dealer who died from prostate cancer in 2008. The two were together for 21 years before they officially parted ways after their two-year divorce proceeding that spurred a wild media circus.
According to Reuters, the Lausanne-born woman had been promised an additional $100 million on top of her $2.5 billion for the next 13 years. However, Wildenstein claimed she had been cut off from her ex-husband’s family in 2015 even though Alec had inherited $10 billion from his father’s estate in 2002.
