Revealed: Lavish £13,000-a-week Parisian suite with Eiffel Tower view where 'Catwoman' Jocelyn Wildenstein spent the last months of her life with partner Lloyd Klein

'Catwoman' Jocelyn Wildenstein spent the last months of her life living in a spectacular Parisian hotel suite that cost £13,000-a-week, MailOnline can reveal.

The death of the plastic surgery-addicted Swiss socialite at 84 on New Year's Eve sparked huge international interest - but until now details of her final weeks have been a mystery.

But MailOnline can reveal that the one-time billionaire had been spending £1,850 a night on a luxurious set of rooms with views of the Eiffel Tower - despite facing arrest in the US for huge unpaid debts.

Wildenstein and her toyboy partner Lloyd Klein, 57, were staying at Hotel Balzac Paris, just off the Champs-Élysées, occupying its finest room, the 'Eiffel Tower View Suite', for the final months of her life.

Wildenstein and fashion designer Klein are thought to have been living in the marble-clad suite, offering panoramic views of the city of lights since August.

It means that throughout the five-month period the cost of the couple's residence alone would have cost around £275,000, matching the huge debt Wildenstein was being demanded to pay by a judge in Miami.

It was a final act of extravagance for the larger-than-life socialite whose lavish lifestyle saw her once even file for bankruptcy despite at one point receiving a $2 billion divorce settlement.

In the nineties Wildenstein happily admitted to spending $1 million a month before her acrimonious split from her first husband, art dealer husband Alec Wildenstein.

She had been introduced to Alec by Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, at one time said to be the world's richest man, and they bonded over big game hunting before eloping to marry in Las Vegas in 1978.

They had two children together before their very public divorce two decades later at which she told how he had pulled a gun on her when she found him in bed with a young model and he claimed she had been a high class prostitute before they met.

The divorce – and Jocelyn's astonishingly contorted features following plastic surgery – made the Wildensteins household names around the world.

Now MailOnline has learned how she continued living the high life to the very end despite her looming legal and financial problems.

At the time of her death earlier this week, the plastic surgery fanatic had ignored multiple court orders relating to her sum allegedly owed to Regal Jewelry and Gift Shop $268,000 for gems she never returned to them - plus a further $75,928 in interest.

On October 23 she failed to attend a contempt hearing in Miami, where she was also facing eviction from her beachside apartment. It is unknown if they were planning to return to America.

It led Judge Migna Sanchez-Llorens to order sheriffs in the Sunshine State to take Wildenstein to custody or lock her up in jail until she could be taken to court.

The ongoing money battle, however, did not put a dampener on Wildenstein's expensive lifestyle and she continued to live in extravagance until her death.

The couple were known to dine at Laurent, an upmarket restaurant just a short walk from their property where main courses start at £70.

They were also seen partying at the Ritz, sipping on drinks at the iconic Hotel Plaza Athénée and attending multiple events at Paris Fashion Week.

Just a few days before her death, Wildenstein had been pictured dressed in a glamorous all-black outfit, with her partner since claiming she had been in 'perfect health'.

The two had been taking a nap at their residence in preparation for their 'maginificient' New Year's Eve celebrations when the tragedy struck.

A few hours before her death, Ms Wildenstein shared a melancholy video from her hotel suite.

It was not clear exactly when it was recorded, but it was her last post on Instagram, and potentially her last message to the world.

The video was accompanied by a disturbing voiceover by Fanny Ardant, the 75-year-old French actor and director, and included the words: 'When things end, I think everything ends.'

Speaking to AFP after her sudden death, Mr Klein said: 'We had spent a good hour together that evening and we were getting ready for the New Year, and we took a little nap just to get in shape before getting dressed.

'Because of her phlebitis [inflammation of the veins close to the skin], her legs were very, very swollen, and the blood was blocked, and there was no oxygen to her brain.

'We were taking a nap and when I woke up, I said, 'Jocelyne, we have to get up, we have to get dressed,' but she was cold and she was dead.'

Mr Klein added: 'It is extremely sad to lie down with your other half that I have known for 21 years and to wait to celebrate New Year's Eve and to find her cold.

Because of the unexpected nature of Wildenstein's death, there will be a full investigation, and it is likely to include an autopsy.

A Paris police source told the Mail: 'Such deaths are of course opened up to an enquiry.'

The Swiss-born star came from humble origins before she married Alec N. Wildenstein in 1978, who was the son of the French art dealer and horse breeder Daniel Wildenstein.

Yet it was only after their split that the socialite received billions from her ex-husband.

In 1998, at the height of their spectacular divorce, Wildenstein's billionaire art dealer husband Alec suggested she had been a high-class prostitute before their marriage.

The accusation, printed in a bombshell article in Vanity Fair that year, came a year after Jocelyn claimed she found her husband in bed at their New York apartment with stunning Russian model Yelena Jarikova, an incident which resulted in his arrest after he pulled a gun.

Like many of the claims swirling around the so-called 'Bride of Wildenstein', the truth about the rumours over her sordid past are impossible to verify or debunk, but they all added to her colourful back story.

During the court proceedings, much of the attention was drawn, naturally, to Jocelyn's looks, along with various rumours about her personal life, such as that she'd worked as a prostitute for the famous Paris bordello owner Madame Claude.

When asked about the claim by Vanity Fair in 1998, Alec told the magazine that it wasn't Madame Claude but added that there were 'other madames' in Paris back then.

When Jocelyn was asked, she replied: 'Really? Well, they have to try to find something against me.'

Later, her husband responded: 'She never answered, did she?'

Whatever the truth of that, there was no doubt about the extensive tastes Jocelyn had acquired during her marriage. Lavish purchases reportedly included a $350,000 Chanel dress and $10 million in jewellery.

She also ran up a ridiculously high cell phone bill of $5,000 a month — claiming she feared her landline might be bugged.

Jocelyn — who grew up in a lower-middle-class family in Switzerland before shuttling off to Paris and Africa — met Alec in 1977.

The pair eloped the following year, and their spending became a thing of legend: In 1998, she estimated they would spend $1 million a month on average.

The pair had two children, Jocelyn continued her plastic surgery odyssey and things were relatively normal for the family, until the late 1990s.

As well as a New York apartment, Jocelyn oversaw the family's sprawling Ol Jogi ranch in Kenya, apartments in Paris and Lausanne, a French château and a Caribbean retreat.' The pair raised their children, but the marriage broke down in the mid-'90s, and Alec filed for divorce in April 1997.

Over the course of the messy divorce proceedings, which dragged on for two years, Jocelyn was awarded an astounding $2.3 billion settlement, with $100 million for 13 years afterward.

(The judge even stipulated that she was not allowed to use any portion of that sum to fund further cosmetic surgery.)

Three years later, Alec inherited half of his father's sprawling business holdings, an estate that included one of the world's largest private collections of art and was estimated at $10 billion. Of course, some of that went to fund alimony payments to Jocelyn.

Jocelyn kept largely out of the public eye following the divorce, though she's been through various legal battles since then, mostly with landlords. She evaded eviction from an apartment at the United Nations Plaza over owed rent through a settlement and was sued in 2015 by American Express over $70,000 in credit card debt.

Another 2015 lawsuit involved a $15,000-per-month Beverly Hills bungalow that Wildenstein allegedly trashed and abandoned, leaving $165,00 in unpaid rent and almost $15,000 more in assorted fees.

By 2018, she filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, often referred to as 'reorganisation' in which a debtor remains 'in possession' and may continue to operate a business and, with court approval, may borrow money.

The details contained in Jocelyn's 69-page form 101 application for voluntary bankruptcy are a far cry from the million-a-month high roller so graphically depicted 20 years earlier.

Somehow, it seemed, her fortune had vanished. By now aged 77, she claimed the only money she was receiving was $900 a month in social security payments and her bank balance stood at precisely zero.

'I am not employed and my only income is Social Security,' she declared in an affidavit. 'I often turn to friends and family in order to pay my ongoing expenses.'

But on the plus side, she did admit to owning an $11.75m apartment on the 51st floor of the Trump World Tower in Manhattan, plus a 2006 Bentley worth $35,000.

Despite decades of massive spending on credit cards, she valued the rest of her 'goods and furnishings' at $100,000, and her 'wardrobe' at only $1,000.

Oddly, she added only one other possession to the list – her TV, valued at just $100.

Her debts were steep, including more than $300,000 owed to various lawyers and law firms. And she owed $4.6 million on her apartment, which was at the time in foreclosure, according to court papers.

Her bankruptcy lawyer Douglas Pick had been representing Wildenstein, but he told Money that he and his firm had withdrawn as counsel, saying 'There are many reasons.'

She claimed that her money troubles weren't because of overspending but rather to do with problems surrounding the trust she received in her divorce.

She claimed in The New York Post that her trust was 'guaranteed' by a Diego Velázquez painting that turned out to be a forgery, as well as a Cézanne artwork that was valued at less than expected.

'I was as surprised as anyone because there's a lot of things involved,' Wildenstein told the newspaper of her bankruptcy filing, adding that she planned to sue her trust to receive her rightful compensation.

But the claims didn't necessarily convince her former lawyer Mr Pick.

'I never received any answers to my inquiry as to why a lawsuit was never commenced based on the appraisals of what subsequently was determined to be an alleged forged artwork,' he told Money.com.

Hotel Balzac Paris has been contacted for comment.