The Bride of Wildenstein left a film crew standing at the altar, court papers say.
Jocelyne Wildenstein — the millionairess whose good looks have been ravaged by innumerable plastic surgeries aimed at making her look like a cat — is being sued for allegedly backing out of a deal to appear in a documentary.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Transparent Television says it struck a deal with Wildenstein and her designer beau, Lloyd Klein, back in 2007 to appear in a film called “The Glamorous World of Lloyd and Jocelyne.”
Wildenstein, the suit notes, “represents herself in the media as a glamorous multimillionaire divorcée and world-recognized socialite who mingles with celebrities in a life of ‘jet-setting’ from one home to the next, each of which are ‘filled with priceless antiques.’ ”
She’s also “widely recognized as one of the world’s most notorious users of cosmetic or plastic surgery, having been dubbed in many periodicals as ‘The Cat Woman’ based on her present appearance,” the suit says.
The deal called for Wildenstein and Klein to be paid $100,000 for about 15 days of shooting.
They were paid $25,000 up front, but when it came time for them to be filmed, they pulled a disappearing act, the suit says.
“Despite repeated attempts by Transparent TV’s executives to schedule filming with the defendants from january 2008 to May 2008, the defendants continually made unjustified and meritless excuses and refused to make themselves available,” the suit says.
The pair subsequently “made themselves completely unavailable,” causing Transparent TV, which had hoped to do a film and reality show on the pair, “substantial damages,” the suit says.
They also refused to return the $25,000, the suit says.
Transparent says the entire episode cost it big bucks, and damaged its reputation. It accused the pair of fraud, and is seeking more than $700,000 in damages for their “criminal conduct.”
Wildenstein and Klein could not be reached for comment.
Wildenstein’s purr-fectly stunning looks first made headlines in 1997, when she was involved in a sensationally ugly split from her billionaire husband, Alec Wildenstein.