Joe Exotic Tells Carole Baskin 'Enough Is Enough' in Jailhouse Interview
etonline.comCarole Baskin. In a jailhouse interview with ABC News, the star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, spoke out against his longtime rival. «I am in prison and she can't leave me alone,» Maldonado-Passage told Juju Chang, referencing his 21-year sentence for the 2017 murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin. "… Carole, go find another reason to live other than Joe Exotic.
Because enough is enough.«As for the reason he's in jail, Maldonado-Passage denied that he paid two people, including an undercover FBI agent, $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to Florida to kill Baskin.
He additionally denied that he abused animals in his care.»Absolutely not," he said, denying his participation in the murder-for-hire plot. «How can you even expect somebody to go from Oklahoma to Florida to scope her out, however long that would take, and back on $3,000?
That is absurd.»Maldonado-Passage also spoke about his health, after revealing in November that he'd been diagnosed with an «aggressive» prostate cancer, and suffering from COVID-19 earlier this month,«I'm losing weight real bad and the sores in my mouth are unbearable to live with all the time.
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