Tiger King star Joe Exotic has lost his Oklahoma zoo to arch-nemesis Carole Baskin following a $1 million (£820,000) trademark judgment.
The hit Netflix show followed Exotic’s rivalry and legal disputes with fellow big cat enthusiast Baskin, which ended up with him being sentenced to prison for plotting to have her killed.
But according to editors at Courthouse News, U.S. District Judge Scott L. Palk of Oklahoma City ruled on Monday that Exotic, real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, had fraudulently transferred the zoo properties to his mother Shirley M.
Schreibvogel in 2011 in order to keep them out of the hands of creditors if he lost any legal battles. In 2013, Exotic was ordered to pay Baskin’s organisation Big Cat Rescue nearly $1
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