It’s time to evolve your cells.
Tiger King star Joe Exotic, who is serving a 21-year sentence in federal prison, revealed in December that he is engaged to a fellow inmate who he hopes to marry while in prison.
“Meet Jorge Marquez, he’s 33 years old. He’s such a great guy and he’s from Mexico,” the Netflix star, 61, posted on Monday on his X account with a photo of himself and the prison bird. did.
“Now, either we get married in prison and get him asylum, or we’ll leave America when we both get out. Either way, I wish I had met him a long time ago. ”
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 ex-husband Travis Maldonado died from a self-inflicted accident.
The stars of the docuseries separated in 2020 and filed for divorce the following year.
“We love each other so much and we spend every moment of the day together,” Exotic told Entertainment Weekly of his new beau.
“I’ve been through some hard times in my life. I buried two husbands, the third ran off with $2.6 million from Netflix and left me here, but Jorge is so amazing. A young man.”
Exotic told the show that she has applied for a marriage license and hopes the prison warden will allow them to marry on December 12th.
The former zookeeper is currently incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, serving a 21-year sentence for violating federal wildlife laws by plotting to hire a hitman to kill his nemesis Carole Baskin. Served in prison.
Exotic was featured in the Netflix 2020 docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, which profiled his work and personal life caring for exotic big cats at the GW Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. It became famous worldwide.
He was arrested during the filming of the hit Netflix show after federal prosecutors said he offered an undercover FBI agent $10,000 to kill the founder of Big Cat Rescue during a December 2017 meeting. He was arrested in September 2018.
Mr. Exotic’s sentence was commuted by one year in January 2022 to a term of 21 years.
