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Mrs Baskin, who runs a well-regarded big cats sanctuary in Florida, complained bitterly about the programme makers’ ‘false portrayal’ of her, unfairly suggesting she had murdered her second husband and making her look as trashy as pistol-packing Exotic with his garish leopard-print shirts and grim history of cruelty towards the animals he insisted he loved. The attack is said to have happened at the Grady County jail in Oklahoma

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Picture shows the controversial star of the hit Netflix series with what appear to be wounds on his left arm. His attempt to start a new private zoo with them was foiled when federal officials raided the site and seized the remaining 68 big cats following complaints that they were being treated inhumanely. However, before that settlement could be enforced, Exotic managed to pass on the zoo’s big cats to a business partner, Jeff Lowe.

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A heavy user of the drug crystal methamphetamine, he liked to sleep three to a bed with his much younger ‘husbands’ on either side of him and famously once walked into a local gay bar with a tiger on a leash.Īs he headed for prison, Mrs Baskin, meanwhile, was given ownership of Exotic’s zoo by a federal judge shortly after the TV series came out as the settlement of a seven-year-old trademark dispute in which he was also ordered to pay her $1 million.

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Tiger King 2, which is released on November 17, will revisit a disturbing but undeniably charismatic character who became such a celebrity that it even seemed at one stage that President Trump would make pardoning him one of his last acts in the White House after a Free Joe campaign received enough votes to reach his desk.Ĭovered in tattoos and piercings, Exotic had so many face lifts his sideburns now grow behind his ears. He added: ‘Carole will have her own party over this!’ He has aggressive prostate cancer, he announced on social media, asking to be released from federal prison in Texas on compassionate grounds. An appeal court ordered his sentence be reduced but Exotic this week revealed the intervention may be academic. His supporters claimed he was set up but he was later convicted of that offence as well as falsifying wildlife records and animal abuse - including shooting and killing five tigers - and sentenced to 22 years in prison. Joe Exotic from the hit Netflix series Tiger King. The show rapidly became one of streaming giant Netflix’s biggest ever hits, watched by 64 million households in its first month, March 2020 The eight-part series, titled Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness, managed to get odder and odder until what had seemed like a black comedy turned into something far darker when Exotic - real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage - was arrested for hiring two men to kill Ms Baskin. The show rapidly became one of streaming giant Netflix’s biggest ever hits, watched by 64 million households in its first month, March 2020. He accused her of having killed her second husband and feeding him to her big cats. She accused him of abusing the animals, illegally breeding them to supply his lucrative cub-petting business.

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He ran an anarchic roadside zoo in Oklahoma full of lions and tigers, and was fighting a vicious battle with his nemesis, Florida big cats rights activist Carole Baskin. Tiger King, alias Joe Exotic, suited those crazy times to a tee - a mullet-haired, assault rifle-brandishing, drug-abusing, gay polygamist, hillbilly showman. Tiger King is back and the surprising monster streaming hit of the pandemic promises to be just as deranged second time round. As for the supporting cast of characters, well, many of them have returned and they’re as outlandish as ever. One of its stars desperately wanted to be in it but is in prison, the other is so determined to stay out of it that she’s gone to court.