'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic gets engaged to fellow prison inmate


Time to cell-irate.

“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic — who is serving a 21-year federal prison sentence — revealed that he has gotten engaged to a fellow inmate whom he hopes to marry behind bars in December.

“Meet Jorge Marquez, he's 33. He's so amazing and from Mexico,” the 61-year-old Netflix star posted on his X account on Monday along with a photo of himself and his jailbird.

“Now, looking to get married in jail and give him asylum or we will leave America when we both get out. Either way, I wish I had met him long ago.”

The convicted criminal announced on his X account that he got engaged to a fellow inmate. joe_exotic/x

This will be his third marriage.

The convicted felon, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, married Dillon Passage in December 2017, just two months after Exotic's previous husband, Travis Maldonado, died in a self-inflicted, accidental shooting.

The reality star is seen in the wildly popular 2020 documentary “Tiger King,” which revolves around his exploits at the Oklahoma Zoo. Netflix US/AFP via Getty Images

The documentary stars separated in 2020 and filed for divorce the next year.

“We love each other very much, spend every minute of the day together,” Exotic told Entertainment Weekly about her new beau.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, in a 2018 mugshot after his arrest. Santa Rosa County Jail/MEGA

“I have gone through some difficulties in my days. I buried two husbands, the third one ran off with $2.6 million from Netflix and left my ass here, but George is a wonderful young man.

Exotic told the outlet that he has applied for their marriage license and hopes the prison warden will grant them permission to marry on December 12.

Tiger King star Joe Exotic wears a long mullet in his new jail booking photo. Santa Rosa County Sheriff/MEGA

The former zookeeper is currently imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, and is serving a 21-year sentence for planning to hire a hitman to murder Carole Baskin and violating federal wildlife laws.

Joe Exotic was convicted of planning to hire a hitman to murder nemesis Carole Baskin. mirrorpix/mega

Exotic rose to worldwide fame with the Netflix 2020 documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” which featured his work and personal life as he cared for exotic big cats at his GW Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.

He was also convicted of violating federal wildlife laws. Schreibvogel/LC Coroner/Splash

He was arrested in September 2018, midway through the filming of the popular Netflix show, after federal prosecutors said he offered an undercover FBI agent $10,000 during a December 2017 meeting to kill the founder of Big Cat Rescue Was.

In January 2022, Exotic's sentence was reduced by one year, reducing his sentence to 21 years.


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