‘Tiger King’ star marries fellow prison inmate: ‘Meet my husband’
“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic announced Monday he is married.
The 62-year-old reality star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, posted on X that he married fellow prison inmate Jorge Marquez.
“Never been more proud of someone,” Maldonado-Passage’s posted. “Meet my husband, Jorge Flores Maldonado.”
Joe Exotic revealed last year, per PEOPLE, that he was set to marry Marquez after getting engaged while they were both jailed.
He is serving a 21-year prison sentence after his 2019 conviction for a murder-to-hire plot against his animal rights activist rival Carole Baskin.
Joe Exotic was previously married to Travis Maldonado from 2015 until 2017. Maldonado accidentally shot himself and died. Joe Exotic married Dillon Passage two months later before splitting in 2021.
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