Nov 17, 2021 · Netflix's 'Tiger King 2' follows Joe Exotic in prison. Trying to get him a retrial is John Phillips, who once defended Don Lewis's family against Carole Baskin.
2 days ago · Joe Exotic’s lawyers have been busy filing a trove of legal documents in a bid for a possible new trial.. The ‘Tiger King’ star, legally known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently serving a 22-year prison sentence in connection with a myriad of federal crimes, including the killing of five tigers, falsifying wildlife records, and the botched murder-for-hire scheme of big …
Oct 23, 2019 · In Sept. 2018, Maldonado-Passage, better known as ‘Joe Exotic,’ was indicted on two counts of murder-for-hire and later indicted with more than a dozen wildlife charges.
Jan 23, 2020 · He called himself Joe Exotic and once lorded over a popular exotic animal park in Oklahoma. Now, Joseph Maldonado-Passage is going to prison for 22 years. ... US Attorney Timothy J. Downing said. ...
Jeff says he's still working on a name for the zoo ... but naturally, it will be related to the 'Tiger King' brand. Despite how things played out with Joe Exotic, Jeff's not shying away from partnerships. He says he's working on the Mexico project with an old friend who already owns a small zoo in Playa del Carmen.Jan 21, 2022
What's Joe Exotic's Net Worth? According to Cheat Sheet, Joe's net worth is estimated between $10 and $15 million, but of course, a lot has changed in recent years.Nov 17, 2021
Yes, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, otherwise known as Joe Exotic, is still alive. In fact, his 59th birthday arrives on March 5, 2022, just two days after the Joe vs. Carole premiere.Mar 3, 2022
After that Don's family claimed that Carole took most of Don's estate for himself. According to Cheat Sheet, Don's children only received $1 million in properties, while his holdings were estimated at more than $5 million.Nov 17, 2021
Tiger King star Carole Baskin's former husband, who went missing in 1997 and was declared legally dead in 2002, is alive and well in Costa Rica.Nov 19, 2021
Where is Carole Baskin now? Carole, 60, remains a big name in the Big Cat world and is still running Big Cat Rescue near Tampa, Florida, with her husband as she works with PETA to change laws about wild animal enclosures.
Described as the “Mother Theresa of cats”, Carole Baskin is the owner and CEO of the Big Cat Sanctuary in Tampa, Florida.Nov 17, 2021
He also stated to have had four heart attacks during his career as a zookeeper.
Two of Wayne's pets were the zoo's first inhabitants. Some of the alligators at Exotic's zoo originally came from the Neverland Ranch, owned by Michael Jackson. Six years after Jackson's death, the alligators were killed in a fire at the zoo. In 2000, Exotic acquired his first two tigers, which had been abandoned.
In 2019, Exotic was convicted on 17 federal charges of animal abuse (eight violations of the Lacey Act and nine of the Endangered Species Act) and two counts of attempted murder for hire for the plot to kill Baskin, and is serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison at Fort Worth, Texas.
Exotic has been featured in numerous documentaries, the most notable being the Netflix series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020), a seven-part documentary about Exotic's career as a zookeeper which also discusses his feud with Baskin.
He produced music videos for the songs and posted them on his YouTube channel, depicting himself as the main performer and taking full credit for the music, allegedly without having notified the actual artists. One of Exotic's most well known songs is "I Saw A Tiger", which was featured in Tiger King and has been covered by numerous bands and artists.
In 2013, 3 liliger females were born at the G.W. Zoo, and were the first liligers born on American soil. They were born to a lion father and liger mother. In a video discussing the birth of the liligers, Exotic stated that hybrid animals have been proven by scientists to be genetically stronger than pure-bred animals.
Exotic credits these experiences with inspiring him to work with animals. Exotic returned to Texas worked at various jobs before opening a pet shop with his brother Garold Wayne or "G.W.", who shared Exotic's love of animals, in Arlington, Texas, in 1986.
The True Story of Tiger King's Joe Exotic, Who Paid a Hitman $3,000 to Take Out a Rival.
Some also reported seeing Joe run over an emu in order to sell its bones. Baskin then took notice, criticizing Exotic—who then took to threatening her online. Exotic then hired a man to kill Baskin. Except the hired man was an undercover FBI agent.
Back then, the animals only included a deer, a buffalo, and a mountain lion. Inhabitants soon included monkeys and, in 2000, tigers.
Exotic grew up in rural Kansas where he developed a penchant for aiding animals. His relationship with his siblings, however, was tempestuous, and Exotic was outed by one of his brothers at an early age. Exotic later became a small-town police chief in Texas. In 1985, he attempted suicide by crashing his cruiser.
But as First Assistant U.S . Attorney Robert J. Troester put it, "the self-described Tiger King was not above the law.". This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
OKLAHOMA CITY – JOSEPH MALDONADO-PASSAGE, also known as Joseph Allen Maldonado, Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, and "Joe Exotic," 56, formerly of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him of two counts of murder-for-hire, eight counts of violating the Lacey Act for falsifying wildlife records, and nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service.
During a trial that began on March 25, a jury heard evidence that Maldonado-Passage gave Allen Glover $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and then to Florida to murder Carole Baskin, with a promise to pay thousands more after the deed.
A superseding indictment handed down on November 7, 2018, further alleged Maldonado-Passage falsified forms involving the sale of wildlife in interstate commerce, killed five tigers in October 2017 to make room for cage space for other big cats, and sold and offered to sell tiger cubs in interstate commerce.
The evidence further showed that beginning in July 2016, Maldonado-Passage repeatedly sought someone to murder Baskin in exchange for money, which led to his meeting with an undercover FBI agent on December 8, 2017. The jury heard a recording of his meeting with the agent to discuss details of the planned murder.
Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (né Schreibvogel; born March 5, 1963), known professionally as Joe Exotic and nicknamed "The Tiger King", is an American media personality, businessman, former chief of police and convicted felon who operated the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (also known as the G.W. Zoo) in Wynnewood, Oklahoma from 1998 to 2018.
Joe Exotic was born Joseph Allen Schreibvogel in Garden City, Kansas, on March 5, 1963, to parents Francis and Shirley Schreibvogel. The Schreibvogels had four other children: Tamara, Pamela, Yarri, and Garold "G.W." Wayne.
The Schreibvogel family moved to Texas, where Exotic was enrolled at Pilot Point High School. After graduating from high school, he joined the Eastvalepolice department, and was promoted t…
Soon after the auto accident, Exotic moved to West Palm Beach, Florida and managed a pet store. A friend who worked at a drive-through safari park brought baby lions to his neighbor's home and let Exotic handle them. Exotic credits these experiences with inspiring him to work with animals.
Exotic returned to Texas and worked at various jobs before opening a pet shop with his brother Garold Wayne or "G.W.", who shared Exotic's love of animals, in Arlington, Texas, in 1986. In 1997…
Exotic is an ordained minister in the state of Oklahoma and is able to officiate marriages. He obtained his ministry license from the Universal Life Church.
Exotic is gay and has referred to numerous partners as his husbands despite them not being legally married.
His first known male partner was Brian Rhyne, who died of complications from HIVin 2001. The f…
• I Saw a Tiger (2014)
• Star Struck (2015)
• Joe Exotic at IMDb
• Joe vs Carole – Podcast history of Joe Exotic on Wondery