Jocelyne Wildenstein dead: Swiss socialite and cosmetic surgery ...

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.