Tiger King legend Joe Exotic is three years into a 22-year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder for hire (against longstanding rival Carole Baskin) and nine counts of violation of the Endangered Species Act. But that doesn’t mean he’s got to postpone his love life, does it?
On the contrary – Joe Exotic, 61, has just revealed that he’s engaged to be married to a fellow inmate. Joe, who either has a phone in prison or has someone handling his social media for him, wrote on X this week:
‘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. Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.’
How romantic. Joe maintains he submitted a marriage application to the federal prison to wed Marquez, also known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage. Passage? I’m sure there’s a gay joke in there somewhere.
As for why Joe Exotic’s fiancé is in prison in the first place? Immigration-related issues, according to CBS News.
Both Joe and Jorge are not only optimistic the prison will approve their wedding application, they also have ‘high hopes’ that Exotic’s appeal of his entire case, including his conviction for hiring hitmen to kill animal activist Carole Baskin, will succeed.
Exotic claims to have evidence such as ‘video confessions under oath’ and ‘700 phone recordings of federal agents.’ Not sure what’s taking him so long to have them leaked to the press or given to the police, but I guess we’ve just got to take his word for it for now.
In a press release, Exotic requested a presidential pardon for himself and his fiancé, as well as asylum for Marquez:
‘I wish someone that is President or wins the Presidency would do the right thing and pardon me so I could move past this nightmare that my own country has caused for the last 7 years of my life. All I did was build a zoo and some people were very jealous. Then I was put into prison by my own country.’
In a phone interview with Entertainment Tonight, Exotic shared details about where the marriage process currently stands right now.
‘We filed our official papers for the marriage license from the prison yesterday, so we’re just waiting for an approval.’
He claims their marriage application ‘has to be approved by the warden and psychiatry and the chaplain’ before their license can be approved.
‘We love each other very much, spend every minute of the day together. I’ve been through some s**t in my days. I buried two husbands, the third one ran off with $2.6 million bucks from Netflix and left my a** here, but Jorge is a very amazing young man.’
Well, good luck with it all, I guess? I think the best he can hope for is to get the marriage to his new prison fiancé approved but even that’s looking like a long shot seeing as they’re both in prison and one of them apparently shouldn’t even be in the country. As for receiving a Presidential pardon by either Trump, Harris, or anyone else? Lol – I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
For the letter that Joe Exotic wrote to Kim Kardashian begging for her help to get pardoned, click HERE. Dude really is desperate.
