Lloyd Klein Spotted with Mystery Woman After Loss

 's former partner, Lloyd Klein stepped out with a mystery woman - one year on from the Swiss socialite's death aged 84.

The fashion designer, 58, attended the Costes party in Paris on Tuesday night during fashion week and was accompanied by the unknown lady. 

He was smartly dressed in jeans, a crisp white shirt and a black blazer worn with loafers as he linked arms with his plus one for the evening. 

In January 2025, Lloyd paid tribute to his late long-term partner Jocelyn and their enduring relationship after she passed away while taking a nap on New Year's Eve.

He described her as the 'love of [his] life' while remarking on how much he misses her during a conversation with Page Six..

The pair had been romantically since 2003, though they had a bumpy relationship that included a 2016 incident in which Wildenstein was arrested for slashing Klein's face with scissors. 

'She was fabulous. She was the love of my life,' Lloyd gushed about Wildenstein, who was dubbed the 'Catwoman' due to the leonine features she developed after numerous cosmetic surgeries over the years.

'I miss her every half second and I still think I’m in a nightmare right now,' Klein continued somberly.

'All my happiness is gone,' he said elsewhere in the interview, 'but she did not suffer, and she died in full glamour.'

Klein — who revealed a contributing factor to his fiancée's death — tried to clarify her true age at the time of her death, claiming that Wildenstein was 79 when she died, and not 84, as was widely reported.

An obituary in the Times of London reported that the art dealer had been born in 1940, and was therefore 84, but the New York Times was among the publications that reported she had been born in 1945, which would have made her only 79.

Klein was clearly defensive about his late fiancée and the reputation she had developed with the public due to her shifting appearance and money woes.

'She doesn't deserve to be ridiculed,' he told Page Six.

Klein also claimed that Wildenstein was 'certainly not broke' at the time of her death, saying: 'That's not the case..' 

He claimed that, contrary to statements made by her ex-husband, Alec N. Wildenstein, she had never tried to give herself a more feline appearance.

'Alec said Jocelyn wanted to look like a cat. She never wanted to look like a cat, she already had that look,' he claimed. 'she had beautiful cheekbones and almond-shaped cat eyes.'

He went further, claiming that Wildenstein led a trend of celebrities getting significant amounts of plastic surgery.

'Maybe she was the first one doing what she did,' he mused.

By the '90s, Jocelyn was completely unrecognizable after her face was transformed reportedly from numerous cosmetic surgeries.

They left her with slanted cat eyes, a prominent chin and exaggerated cheek bones, which some have compared to a lion's face.

Despite the obvious change in her appearance, Wildenstein at one time bizarrely claimed to have never had plastic surgery.

Alec did comment on her face. He told Vanity Fair, '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 wouldn’t listen.'

Wildenstein fired back that he 'hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to certify that I completely changed my face' to win the divorce, she stated.

Lloyd previously spoke about waking up to discover Wildenstein had unexpectedly and tragically passed.

'She died in her sleep very peacefully,' he told People shortly after her death was confirmed.

'It's very sad. It's extremely sad. It's extremely sad to lay down with your other half that I know for 21 years and waiting to celebrate New Year's Eve and to find her cold.'

'We had a nice happy hour the same night and we were getting ready for the new year, and we took a little nap just to look good before getting dressed,' he said as he recounted the hours before her passing.

When asked about her cause of death, he said that she had phlebitis, a condition that causes a blood clot to form and block one or more veins, often in the legs, per the Mayo Clinic.

'Because of her phlebitis, the legs were very, very swollen, and the blood was blocked, and there was no oxygen in the brain,' he explained.

'And we were having a nap and 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: 'It's very sad. It's extremely sad.'

Klein noted that the condition, which Wildenstein's grandmother also had, did not affect their holiday celebrations in Paris.

He said that her health had been 'perfect.'

'We were at the Ritz two days ago,' he recounted. 'We were having dinner. Before that, we had come for Fashion Week at Chanel. Everything was good, everything was good.'

About their holiday celebrations up until then, he said it was 'beautiful.'

'We were at the Ritz. We were having parties. She was in great shape. She was in impeccable health,' he told the outlet.

He said they had been spending time in Paris together and she was 'very happy' and 'at the top of her game.'

Wildenstein became one of the wealthiest people on the planet after her 1999 divorce from the French-born American art collector and businessman Alec N. Wildenstein, which left her with a reported $2.5 billion.

The settlement also instructed Alec to pay Jocelyn an additional $100 million per year.

Despite achieving such immense wealth, she reportedly managed to lose it all after years of tinkering with her face and spending on countless luxuries.

She filed for bankruptcy in 2018, and three luxury apartments she owned in Trump Tower were reportedly repossessed.

In a 2023 interview with the Times of London, Wildenstein said that she had 'zero' dollars of income over the past eight years, though she apparently still had assets valued in the millions.

'I have a huge problem with my settlement,' she told the publication. 'Since eight years, [Alex’s family] have completely cut me off.'

Alec died in 2008, though the payments continued for several more years, until his family cut them off in 2015.

In 2018, Wildenstein claimed to Page Six that the vast majority of her wealth disappeared because one of the paintings that was part of the trust set up for her in the divorce settlement, attributed to Diego Velázquez, turned out to be a forgery.

On top of that, a Cézanne that was expected to sell for around $35 million on auction only sold for $4.7 million.

Klein attributed much of her financial misfortune to the forged painting that was part of her divorce settlement from her ex-husband's family.

'She had a very lavish lifestyle. There were bills to pay, and when they stopped paying her it was terrible,' he said. 'She would not have one problem if they had not given her a fake painting.'

Wildenstein, who had been spending time in Paris around her death late last year, had previously been based in Miami.

Daily Mail reported that her money issues had escalated to the point that a judge had threatened her with arrest after she failed to attend a hearing over an unpaid debt of $344,000.

Klein said that Wildenstein's remaining assets were being sorted out by her estates attorneys, and whatever remains after her debts are paid would go to her children, Diane and Alec Jr.

According to the fashion designer, he's not looking for anything from her estate, and instead only wants 'dignity' for her after her death.

'I was not with her for the money. I am a top couturier,' he explained, adding that he has a 'beautiful list of clients' including Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Faye Dunaway and Kim Kardashian.

Klein claimed that he was 'taking care' of Wildenstein as much as possible in her final years to maintain her lavish lifestyle.

'I gave her everything I could to please her. We kept life beautiful, happy,' he said. 'If this is not love, I don’t know what you can call it.'

Klein noted that he hasn't spoken with Wildenstein's children — who were allegedly estranged from her — in the days since her death.

'Jocelyn did everything possible for her kids,' he said. 'She took them all over the world … She did spoil them — she was the best mother one would want to have.'

In the interview, Klein revealed that he and Wildenstein had attended a nighttime mass at a church in Paris days before her death, where she had been blessed by a priest.

'I am happy she had that blessing,' he said.

Klein, who battled lymphoma in 2014, joked that he and Wildenstein wanted to one day share a tomb like ancient Egyptians, and the two would allegedly compare themselves to Marc Antony and Cleopatra.

He previously said that he hoped to be able to scatter her ashes at her ranch in Kenya, alongside her parents.