Joseph Maldonado-Passage, the Joe Exotic from the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King,” has announced that he is engaged to a fellow inmate.
Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix documentary series “Tiger King,” is engaged to Jorge Marquez. The two met in prison.
Joe, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, announced his engagement on social media. “Now the goal is to get married in prison and get asylum for him, or we’ll leave America when we both get out,” he wrote.
Jorge Marquez is from Mexico and is 33 years old. “Either way, I wish I had met him a long time ago,” Joe continued.
The “Tiger King” was previously married to Dillon Passage, but the two divorced in 2021, three years after their wedding. “This wasn’t an easy decision to make, but Joe and I understand that this situation is not fair to either of us,” Dillon commented on Instagram at the time.
Joe was also married to Travis Maldonado, who accidentally shot himself.
Joseph Maldonado-Passage is serving a 21-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2019 of hiring a hitman to kill an animal rights activist.
According to authorities, he killed five tigers in October 2017 and sold tiger cubs on the black market for wildlife.
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