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Joe Exotic
Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (born March 5, 1963), better known by his stage name Joe Exotic, is an American former zoo operator, internet personality, musician, and convicted felon. The former owner and operator of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (a.k.a. G. W. Zoo) in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, Maldonado-Passage had claimed to be the most prolific breeder of tigers in the United States. He twice unsuccessfully ran for public office, first for President of the United States in 2016 as an independent, and then for Governor of Oklahoma in 2018 as a Libertarian.
Carole Baskin
Carole Baskin (born June 6, 1961) is an American animal rights activist and owner of Big Cat Rescue, a non-profit animal sanctuary based near Tampa, Florida. Baskin drew public attention when she was featured in the 2020 Netflix documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness about Oklahoma-based private zoo operator known as Joe Exotic. The Netflix series follows both Baskin and Joe Exotic, filming their ongoing and escalating feuds over exotic animals in private zoos. Following the series' release, Baskin has been targeted by Internet memes related to the disappearance of Don Lewis, her second husband.
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‘Tiger King’ Directors on ‘Narcissist’ Joe Exotic, LGBTQ Themes and Animal Cruelty
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variety.com“Tiger King”: It’s the docuseries everyone is watching. At least everyone with a Netflix account, which at the end of 2019 was more than 167 million people.
And given that it is the age of a pandemic, with families forced to stay inside, those numbers may have grown in the past few weeks alone. “Tiger King” is Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode’s seven-part portrait of big cat enthusiast and Oklahoma zoo owner Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, who is currently serving 22 years for animal welfare charges and the murder-for-hire plot of one of his rivals in the big cat world, Carole Baskin.
The in-depth look at this larger-than-life world — which also includes polygamy, meth, the potential murder of Baskin’s former husband Don
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