‘Catwoman’ Jocelyn’s explosive life with fiancé, including ‘rough sex’ scandal
Walking arm in arm down the street, Jocelyn Wildenstein and Lloyd Klein looked the picture of happiness as they enjoyed the glitz of Paris Fashion Week.
The socialite, 82, and her fashion designer fiancé, 57, appear to have made a U-turn after revealing last year that she was ‘flat broke’ despite once receiving a whopping £2 billion divorce payout.
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This week’s appearance comes just days after the loved-up couple enjoyed a luxurious holiday at a five-star resort in Miami Beach, marking the latest curious chapter in their fiery on-off relationship.
The couple, who got engaged in 2017 with a 32-carat ring worth “millions,” have been arrested more than once for late-night arguments and what they claim was the result of “rough sex” sessions.
But Swiss star Jocelyn – known as the ‘Catwoman’ after spending millions on cosmetic surgery to perfect her feline look – and her husband looked impeccably groomed in coordinating black outfits in Paris, suggesting all the trouble are now finally behind us.
Canadian-born Lloyd grew up in Paris and planned to become an architect before being inspired by a Givenchy show to follow his passion for fashion.
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He managed to get Alix Grès to retire at the age of 25 and become creative director of Grès, before founding his own label and returning to the United States in 1998.
He met Jocelyn at New York Fashion Week in 2003 and the pair began a passionate relationship that was infamous years later.
A fight between the couple in 2016 led to a rift, and Jocelyn was charged with assault, accused of sinking her nails into his face, scratching his chest with scissors and throwing hot wax on him after they got into her apartment in Trump Towers erupted into a violent rage.
Lloyd allegedly escaped by pushing Jocelyn into a closet, but he was subsequently arrested as well when police accused him of pushing his now-fiance when he went back to retrieve his belongings.
Charges were dropped for both due to lack of evidence, and just a few months later they revealed they were engaged, claiming that the time apart had made them realize how much they needed to be together.
Lloyd proposed with a 32-carat ring at the Versace Mansion in Miami. He told the Daily mail: “It was romantic, dramatic and beautiful. I showed Jocelyn the ring and she said ‘yes!’ – she was in heaven.”
‘Rough sex’
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However, just a few months later, in November 2017, another nighttime fight broke out between the couple – and the police were called when neighbors heard screams coming from their apartment.
When they arrived at 1 a.m., police found a shattered baking dish on the kitchen floor, bruises on Jocelyn’s neck and arms, and a cut on Lloyd’s forehead.
Both Jocelyn and Lloyd were arrested for misdemeanor assault, but the couple insisted their injuries were all due to their love of “rough sex.”
Jocelyn explained everything and said it all started when she was cooking a romantic meal of beef bourguignon on the stove and the Pyrex dish suddenly exploded.
We went to the bedroom and had amazing, passionate sex. The neighbors probably heard all this and assumed someone was murdered
Jocelyn Wildenstein
The boiling broth poured onto Lloyd’s legs, and as he ran to the shower to wash it off, he slipped and fell, sustaining a small cut on his forehead.
Jocelyn said she came to the bathroom to help him, but before long they were loudly making love.
She told me Daily mail: “We went into the bedroom and had amazing, passionate sex. The neighbors probably heard all this and assumed someone was murdered.
“A few minutes later, security entered the apartment uninvited and walked right up to us in the bedroom.
“I understand why it looked like a fight with the food on the ground and the little bit of blood – but I can assure you it wasn’t, 100 percent.
“Lloyd can be very passionate, he can be a bit rough.
“I like that, otherwise I wouldn’t have been with him all this time.”
The couple insisted the arrest would have no impact on their 2018 wedding, but they have yet to get married.
That may have to do with finances, however, as Jocelyn was forced to file for bankruptcy six years ago, claiming her ex-husband’s family cut her off from the nine-figure annual payment she infamously received during her 1999 divorce. had become.
A fortune of $2.5 billion was squandered
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Jocelyn was married to billionaire businessman Alec N Wildenstein for 20 years before filing for divorce because she was tired of his extramarital affairs.
She found him in bed with a 19-year-old model and he pointed a gun at his wife, landing him in court.
But Jocelyn claimed that this was just the tip of the iceberg and that this was just one of his indiscretions.
The reclusive socialite won $2.5 billion in the settlement, with $100 million allocated for each year thereafter in the split.
But last year she claimed in a rare interview with the Sunday Times that her income had completely dried up.
“I have a huge problem with my settlement,” she told the newspaper as she and her fiancé filmed a new HBO docuseries about her life. “They have completely cut me off for eight years.”
At the time of her bankruptcy, she listed her checking account balance as “$0,” despite still having millions of dollars in assets, most of which she owned.
Her three luxury apartments in Trump Tower were subsequently seized.
Millions in cosmetic surgery
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It’s still a mystery how she went from a divorced billionaire to a seemingly penniless woman, dependent on friends, family and social security to make ends meet.
But it seems that during her marriage to Wildenstein, she developed a taste for the high life.
She revealed that while together, the couple was able to spend about $1 million a month, including her $5,000 a month phone bill, a $350,000 Chanel dress and $10 million in jewelry.
[Jocelyn] thought she could fix her face like a piece of furnitureAlec Wildenstein
And of course there were the millions she spent on cosmetic surgery.
Her journey under the knife started in her first year of marriage when she apparently told her husband that his eyes looked baggy – so they booked a facelift for him and her.
Rumor had it that her ex-husband, a noted cat lover, encouraged her to have the surgery to make her look more feline.
But Alec, who died in 2008 aged 67, denied these claims and said she thought she could “fix her face like a piece of furniture”.
However, Jocelyn said her husband tried to use her surgery against her during the divorce, claiming that Alec began spreading stories about her plastic surgeries to “win the divorce” and even “hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to confirm that I had completely changed’. my face.”
“He couldn’t say I betrayed him; I never betrayed him,” Jocelyn said, claiming her ex-husband once insisted, “She became a monster… I don’t recognize her.”
Six-figure lawsuits
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But as for the whereabouts of the money, Jocelyn claims it is not due to extravagant overspending on her part, but rather due to trust issues she received in her divorce.
She told The New York Post that her trust was “guaranteed” by a painting by Diego Velázquez that turned out to be a forgery, as well as a work of art by Cézanne that was less appreciated than expected.
And there are several legal bills to settle and several lawsuits filed – mostly with landlords.
She avoided eviction from a United Nations Plaza apartment due to rent owed through a settlement and was sued by American Express for $70,000 in credit card debt.
Another lawsuit involved a $15,000-a-month Beverly Hills bungalow that Wildenstein allegedly vandalized and abandoned, leaving $165,00 in unpaid rent and another $15,000 in miscellaneous fees.
But now it seems like life is on the upswing for Jocelyn.
Lloyd has said that he and his fiancée have big plans: sharing Jocelyn’s story to tell her side to the public who have scrutinized her entire life, and hopefully recoup some of her lost fortune.
They are filming an HBO docuseries, and there are also plans in the pipeline for a movie about her life and a Kardashian-style reality show.
“The documentary is her answer,” says Klein. “Jocelyn wants to tell the story in her own voice.”
