Jocelyn Wildenstein claims she is FLAT BROKE ahead of new HBO documentary series

Socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein claims she is flat broke and has not had any income for eight years after her ex-husband's family cut her of from her $100million annual divorce settlement.

'I have a huge problem with my settlement,' she told The Sunday Times as she and her longtime fiancée film a new HBO docuseries about her life. 'Since eight years, they have completely cut me off.'

The reclusive 82-year-old won a $2.5billion settlement with $100million allocated for each year thereafter in her divorce settlement as she claimed her husband had been unfaithful.

She now says Alec tried to put the blame for their failed marriage on her by saying he no longer recognized his wife due to her extensive plastic surgeries which earned her the nickname 'Catwoman.' 

Jocelyn Wildenstein, 82, first met Alec Wildenstein while on a safari in Africa. She is pictured here at the age of 15, before she got extensive plastic surgery

Jocelyn rose to international fame amid her divorce from Alec, a renowned art dealer, right, in the 1990s. She claims his infidelity led her to file for divorce

Jocelyn won a $2.5billion settlement from the divorce with a $100million payment each year thereafter. But the payments stopped in 2015 when his family cut her off, she says

Jocelyn first met Alec in 1977 at his family's Ol Jogi ranch, north of Nairobi, when she was on a safari with friends.

The two went on to have two children, Diane and Alec Jr., and lived comfortably in their Manhattan penthouse with a separate family compound in the British Virgin Islands and the family's estate in Africa.

But after 20 years of marriage, Jocelyn says, she called it quits, citing her husband's extramarital affairs.

'It was getting too obvious,' she told The Sunday Times. 'It was young girls and going to the same restaurants we went to. It was no discretion, nothing.'

During the divorce proceedings, Jocelyn claims, Alec started planting stories about her plastic surgeries to 'win the divorce' and even 'hired a publicist and paid a plastic surgeon to certify that I completely changed my face.' 

'He couldn't say I betrayed him; I never betrayed him,' Jocelyn said, claiming her ex-husband once insisted that '"She became a monster... I don't recognize her."

'He put all the blame on my face,' Jocelyn said.

Rumors abounded, however, that Alec, a known cat lover, encouraged his wife to get the surgeries to make her appear more feminine.

He denied those claims in an interview with Vanity Fair at the time.

'She was crazy,' Alec insisted. 'I would always find out last.

'She was thinking that she could fix her face like a piece of furniture,' he claimed. 'Skin does not work that way. But she wouldn't listen.'

Still, Jocelyn won the proceedings — taking home a settlement of $2.5billion with $100million guaranteed each year thereafter 'to follow the lifestyle and the work of the 20 years.'

She was also allowed to keep her ex-husband's last name. 

For years rumors abounded that Alec had encouraged her to get plastic surgery to make her look more feline

Jocelyn and her longtime fiancée, French-Canadian designer Lloyd Klein, are now filming an HBO docuseries about her life. The two are pictured here in New York City in September

But her good fortune apparently ended in 2015 — when Alec's family decided to cut off her settlement payments.

Three years later, she filed for bankruptcy.

At the time, The Sunday Times reports, Jocelyn listed her checking account balance as '$0' despite still having millions of dollars in assets — most of which was property.

Her three luxury apartments at Trump Tower were then repossessed, and now she says she has no money at all.

'Zero — nothing in eight years,' she told the Times.

Jocelyn's longtime fiancée, 56-year-old French-Canadian designer Lloyd Klein, said she is now making a docuseries to tell her side of the story and potentially recoup some money.

He called the HBO project 'her reply' to the public, which has scrutinized her life and her infamous plastic surgeries.

She is also planning a reality television series produced by the team behind Keeping Up With the Kardashians. 

'Jocelyn wants to tell the story with her own voice,' he said, with Wildenstein adding: 'I've never been public. It's not my nature.'

But Klein says he has bigger plans for his fiancée: 'I want to have a movie series on Jocelyn's life, and I would like to have Jennifer Lawrence as a young Jocelyn,' he said, adding that he would choose Rami Malek to play Alec.

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