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' French prosecutors also owe a lot to Jocelyne Wildenstein, now 75, who got the ball rolling way back in September 1997, when she returned to the palatial Manhattan townhouse she shared with her husband, Alec Wildenstein, and caught him in bed with a nude 21-year-old Russian model. be fined $307 million (250 million) and has asked that the Wildenstein family pay $752 million (616 million) in taxes owed. var ctx = this; }); } Hedied in 2008. //and we can just return here. Both their relationship and their divorce were fiendishly covered by the press. + '<\/style>' |Courtesy| Ol Jogi Ranch| . Alec Wildenstein and Jocelyn Perisset have one of the highest-paid divorce settlements in history. } The decision to prosecute the family was considered sufficiently momentous for it to be announced in the French parliament. appendNewsletterSignup(); So what happened to finally bring down the famed House of Wildenstein? head.appendChild(link); d.setTime(d.getTime() + (expMinutes*60*1000)); } .fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus){ } // don't show it on paywall-related pages where the user might be in the process He inherited $10 billion from his father, Daniel Wildenstein, art dealer and student of impressionism. Guy and Alec Wildenstein together declared just 40.9 million euros for inheritance tax purposes in 2002. Not long after Daniels funeral, the brothers came to call on Sylvia. function slideInModal(upOrDown) { var ctx = this; + '