Tiger King star Joe Exotic is engaged to fellow inmate as he issues loved-up announcement

Tiger King star, Joe Exotic, is engaged to a fellow inmate he met during his 21 year prison stretch.

The controversial character, 61, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, took to X/ Twitter on October 28 to announce the news. In the post, he formally introduced his partner, who is a fellow inmate, before sharing that they’re figuring out their plans to get married.

“Meet Jorge Marquez, he is 33. He is so amazing and is from Mexico. Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum, or we be leaving America when we both get out,” Maldonado-Passage wrote. “Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.”

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Joe Exotic has been married twice. In 2021, his ex-husband, Dillon Passage, confirmed he was divorcing the Netflix star after three years of marriage.

“Yes, Joe and I are seeking a divorce," he penned at the time. “This wasn’t an easy decision to make but Joe and I both understand that this situation isn’t fair to either of us. It’s something that neither of us were expecting but we are going to take it day by day.”

The former zoo owner was also married to Travis Maldonado, who tragically died from a self-inflicted, accidental gunshot wound in 2017.

Joe, who rose to fame in the Netflix hit documentary Tiger King, is currently serving 21 years at a federal prison in Oklahoma. In 2020, the star was convicted of trying to hire two men to kill animal activist Carole Baskin as well as abusing animals at his private zoo.

The blonde bombshell - who has always maintained his innocence - was arrested after he offered an undercover FBI agent $10,000 (€9,200) to kill Carole, who runs a sanctuary for big cats in Florida

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