TO the outside world Joe Exotic was the eccentric zookeeper who owned 1200 lions, tigers and bears in the middle of Oklahoma.
But behind the “gay, gun-toting cowboy with a mullet,” as he liked to refer to himself, lay a far more sinister character. For two decades he was a local celebrity who bred hybrid big cats including ligers - the offspring of a male lion and female tiger - at his roadside zoo in Wynnewood.
He called himself the Tiger King, made 28 songs, sold merchandise from branded t-shirts to condoms and opened a pizza restaurant called ‘Zooters’ - a male version of Hooters.
He also re-homed Michael Jackson’s alligators from the Neverland Ranch after the singer’s death - before they ended up being boiled alive in a fire.
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