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Tiger King’s Joe Exotic engaged to prison inmate after finding love behind bars

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Jailed Tiger King star Joe Exotic is said to have found romance during his stint in a Texas prison and is now reportedly engaged to his fellow inmate

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Joe Exotic is reportedly engaged after finding love behind bars with a fellow inmate.

The Tiger King star, who was jailed in 2020 for hiring two men to try and kill his rival Carole Baskin, is said to be in a relationship with a man called John Graham.

Prison letters obtained by TMZ reveal Joe met John when they were housed in the same unit.

He has even likened their romance to that seen in the vampire fantasy film Twilight.

In a letter sent to his attorney Autumn Blackledge he says it wasn’t long after they met that he and John started seeing each other.

He said he had “fell head over heels” for somebody who he had been “pokey with for the last year.

And it appears John has since popped the question, apparently proposing on August 2 last year – but it has only come to light now.







Joe is serving 21 years in jail for trying to kill Carole Baskin
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He is said to have found love with inmate John Graham

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The Netflix star – who is serving 21 years for his crimes – said new love John is the opposite of ex-husband Dillon Passage, who he is due to divorce.

He described Dillon, who appeared on Tiger King, as “selfish, younger and wanting to be famous”.







Carole Baskin was Joe Exotic’s long-time rival
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Gushing over new love John he said he is an “old soul about 400 years” who “isn’t seeking the limelight” and “loves him for him”.

He revealed John “practises witchcraft” and says he keeps one of his shirts so he can smell him when they are apart.

The couple are said to talk constantly and exchange mail nonstop, with Joe saying it’s a “type of love he has never experienced” before.

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Joe Exotic wants divorce so he can marry a man he met in prison

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Joe Exotic may be behind bars but he wants to get married again.

The Netflix star is itching to divorce estranged husband Dillon Passage so he can wed a fellow jailbird named John Graham, reports TMZ.

The “Tiger King” star met Graham in February 2021 when they were both locked up at FMC Fort Worth Texas, and are still together even though Graham is no longer behind bars.

According to court documents, Exotic’s new love interest was in prison for burglary and possession of a firearm. He was sentenced in 2012 to more than 12 years in prison, although he was released last month.

Exotic, 59, is currently serving a 21-year prison sentence for a murder-for-hire case involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin and has been estranged from his second husband, Dillon Passage.

Page Six exclusively reported that Passage, 25, is denying claims made by Exotic’s lawyers that he is refusing to sign divorce papers.

Exotic wants to divorce his second husband, Dillon Passage.
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The couple married in Davis, Okla., on Dec. 11, 2017, just two months after Exotic’s previous husband, Travis Maldonado, died in a self-inflicted, accidental shooting. However, they have been estranged for more than a year.

In March 2021, Passage wrote on Instagram that the couple was splitting.

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“This wasn’t an easy decision to make but Joe and I both understand that this situation isn’t fair to either of us,” he wrote.

Last July, Passage announced that he was in a new relationship with a man named John.

Passage captioned a slideshow of pictures of the pair, “I’ve planned on keeping my relationship private for personal reasons but lately I’ve been having a hard time dealing with things happening in my life and John has been my rock and helping me get through it all.”



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‘Tiger King’ star Jeff Johnson dead in apparent suicide

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Jeffery Lynn Johnson, who appeared on Netflix’s hit docuseries, “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” has died at 58.

Johnson died in an apparent suicide during an argument with his wife, Charity, the Oklahoma City Police Department told CNN.

The reptile dealer was interviewed in the fourth episode of the Netflix show.

The police report indicated that officers were called to Johnson’s home after 10 p.m. on Sept. 8 for attempted suicide, CNN reported.

Charity told authorities that her husband killed himself in front of her during their argument in the garage. Their children, ages 4 and 5, were in the house during the time of the incident, per CNN.

Johnson was taken to the hospital shortly after he was found to have a pulse at the scene, according to the police report, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. The report also indicated that Johnson had “no mental health history.”

“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic’s attorney confirmed that he spoke to Charity following the tragedy.

Johnson died at the age of 58 in his home in Oklahoma.
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Johnson’s death comes after fellow “Tiger King” star and zookeeper Erik Cowie’s passing. Cowie was found dead on Sept. 3 in New York City and the medical examiner determined that his cause of death was “acute and chronic alcohol use” in a manner that was “natural.”

The second season of the widely popular series dropped on Netflix on Nov. 17. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently serving prison time for paying a hitman to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.

The former zookeeper, 58, exclusively conversed with The Post via a written letter he sent from jail, claiming that the show’s second season proves him to be “innocent.” He also claimed that former president Donald Trump was “a fool” to not pardon him and that President Joe Biden should grant him clemency.

“President Trump was a fool not to pardon me,” Exotic wrote. “Before the election, millions of people were hoping for it as they know I’m innocent, most of this is in TK2 [‘Tiger King 2’] and it will be the same for President Biden, the world will know the truth [when the new season is released] and him and VP [Kamala] Harris ran on justice and prison reform.”

Joe Exotic was sentenced to 22 years in prison for hiring a hitman to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.
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“It would be in the interest of American Justice for President Biden to pardon me before the holidays and charge those with perjury and other suitable charges, or the injustice is really going to cost votes in 2022 as the people wonder if this could happen to them under his watch,” he added. 

The reality star continued, “For 3 years they ‘the Government’ has kept me in isolation, blocked numbers and reporters from my phone, rejected any email that tells the truth to my attorneys, kept me from talking to the press and monitored every legal call I’ve had.”

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Joe Exotic Of ‘Tiger King’ Moved To New Facility After Cancer Diagnosis

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BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — The former Oklahoma zookeeper known as “Tiger King” Joe Exotic, a prominent figure in a Netflix documentary series, has been transferred to a medical facility in North Carolina for federal inmates after a cancer diagnosis, according to his attorney.

Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was flown on a plane to be transferred from a federal medical center in Fort Worth, Texas, to a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, late Tuesday or early Wednesday, defense attorney John Phillips said in a statement. Phillips, who tweeted his statement on Saturday, said Maldonado-Passage originally was scheduled to be transferred later this month.

Phillips said Maldonado-Passage told him that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and was getting medical treatment and tests “for a host of issues.” Phillips said prison medical care “isn’t the best and justice is slow.”

“It’s a competition of life and liberty no one wants any part of,” he added.

In July, a federal appeals court ruled that Maldonado-Passage should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws.

He was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill Florida animal rights activist Carole Baskin. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver found that the trial court wrongly treated those two convictions separately in calculating his prison term under sentencing guidelines.

The appeals court panel said his advisory sentencing range should be between 17 1/2 years and just under 22 years rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison, as the trial court calculated.

Maldonado-Passage and his blond mullet were featured in the Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”

Meanwhile, Baskin, of Tampa’s Big Cat Rescue sanctuary, lost an effort to stop Netflix and a production company from using previously recorded video of her and her husband in the “Tiger King” sequel, which began airing Nov. 17.

A federal magistrate judge issued a recommendation Friday denying the Baskins’ bid to block use of the footage as an impermissible prior restraint under the First Amendment.

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‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin sues Netflix over Season 2

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Season 2 of Netflix’s smash coronavirus pandemic lockdown hit “Tiger King” is set to debut later this month, however, star Carole Baskin is not too happy about it.

Baskin, 60, is suing the streaming service and the docuseries’ producers, demanding footage with her in the second season be taken out, according to TMZ.

The big cat lover, who was featured in the first season, is asking the judge to stop any videos of her and her Big Cat Rescue organization in the upcoming season.

The suit alleges that the scenes with Baskin shown in the latest trailer are misrepresenting what really happened during filming.

The reality star wants the court to force Netflix to erase any footage of her in the promo materials, teasers and trailers. She claims in her lawsuit that the show’s reels are actually just unused film that didn’t make it into the final cut of the original series. She also alleges that producers are recutting old footage to make it seem like she’s giving new interviews.

The Post has reached out to Netflix and producers for comment.

“I told [producers] to lose my number,” she said. “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”
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Baskin told Page Six back in May that she never agreed to be a part of the second season. “I told [producers] to lose my number,” she said. “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”

The first season of the series focused on the animal advocate’s former husband, Don Lewis, who vanished in 1997. Many fans have speculated that Baskin had something to do with his disappearance.

“The first three months [after ‘Tiger King’ aired], my phone rang incessantly with people screaming obscenities. After that it slowed down,” she told Page Six. “I didn’t take it personally,” she says, but “it really affected my husband [Howard Baskin] and daughter. If someone said something about someone you love, you would want to protect them.” (Baskin married Howard in 2004.)

She continued, “Once they tell the media, ‘She killed her husband and fed him to the tigers,’ it worked for these animal abusers to say these things publicly. But it’s not true and all you have to do is look into it and know it’s not true.”

Baskin starred in the docuseries alongside animal zookeeper Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage and is currently serving 22 years in prison for orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin.

Season 2 of “Tiger King” returns to Netflix on Nov. 17.

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