Tiger King star Joe ‘Exotic’ Maldonado-Passage wants to clear his name after the success of the hit Netflix docu-series, and he’s seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump as well as a ‘$94M legal settlement’ against his enemies.
The 57-year-old former roadside zoo owner is incarcerated at the Grady County Jail in Chickasha, Oklahoma where he’s serving 22 years for a murder-for-hire plot as well as violating the Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act.
Maldonado-Passage filed legal documents last Thursday suing the US Department of Interior and the US Federal Wildlife Service for $78.84M as well as his former business partner Jeff Lowe and another colleague for $15M.
Legal war: Tiger King star Joe ‘Exotic’ Maldonado-Passage wants to clear his name after the success of the hit Netflix docu-series, and he’s seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump as well as a ‘$94M legal settlement’ against his enemies (2018 mugshot)
The 57-year-old former roadside zoo owner is incarcerated at the Grady County Jail in Chickasha, Oklahoma where he’s serving 22 years for a murder-for-hire plot as well as violating the Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act
‘This lawsuit has been filed in the name of justice, the Trump administration must be made aware of the overreach, perjury, abuse of power and the failure to uphold the oath of their position which is truth and Justice for all,’ Joe said in a statement on his Facebook page.
‘The agencies and its counter parts have abused the system for a private agenda. The director Dan Ashe used his government position to create an illegal monopoly with the AZA and shut down hard working American businesses for self gain.
‘I have been illegally charged with these crimes and the Trump administration, the United States Department of Interior along with the Federal Wildlife service must be held accountable for what they have done to me, my parents and my family, along with my animals.’
Enemies list: Maldonado-Passage filed legal documents last Thursday suing the US Department of Interior and the US Federal Wildlife Service for $78.84M as well as his former business partner Jeff Lowe and another colleague for $15M
Joe said in a statement on his Facebook page: ‘I have been illegally charged with these crimes and the Trump administration, the United States Department of Interior along with the Federal Wildlife service must be held accountable for what they have done to me’
‘Free the Tiger King’: The eccentric country singer has also set up a Change.org petition to get Trump’s attention, which has been signed by 2,947 people
Directing duo Eric Goode & Rebecca Chaikli’s successful seven-part series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness has reached the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 list since dropping Friday
The eccentric country singer – who ran for President in 2016 and Oklahoma Governor in 2018 – has also set up a Change.org petition to get Trump’s attention, which has been signed by 2,947 people.
Directing duo Eric Goode & Rebecca Chaikli’s successful seven-part series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness has reached the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 list since dropping Friday.
And while the gun-toting openly gay polygamist supports Tiger King, his nemesis – Big Cat Rescue founder & CEO Carole Baskin – has blasted the filmmakers for making a ‘disappointing, salacious, and sensational’ show.
Not a fan: The gun-toting openly gay polygamist’s nemesis – Big Cat Rescue founder & CEO Carole Baskin (pictured) – has blasted the filmmakers for making a ‘disappointing, salacious, and sensational’ show
‘No basis in fact whatsoever’: The 58-year-old animal activist (R) defended herself on her website after Tiger King questioned whether she murdered her millionaire husband Don Lewis (L), who went mysteriously missing in 1997 before she took control of his estate
In the works! Carole has high hopes for UCP’s upcoming small-screen adaptation of Robert Moor’s ‘honest and fair’ Wondery Podcast – Over My Dead Body – which will be produced by and star SNL funnywoman Kate McKinnon as Baskin
The 58-year-old animal activist defended herself on her website after Tiger King questioned whether she murdered her millionaire husband Don Lewis, who went mysteriously missing in 1997 before she took control of his estate.
Carole has high hopes for UCP’s upcoming small-screen adaptation of Robert Moor’s ‘honest and fair’ Wondery Podcast – Over My Dead Body – which will be produced by and star SNL star Kate McKinnon as Baskin.
100M viewers reportedly tuned in to Tiger King – including celeb fans like Zach Braff, Sam Smith, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kim Kardashian West, Jax Taylor, Vinny Guadagnino, JoJo, Taran Killam, Pete Holmes, Spencer Pratt, Hayley Kiyoko, Fortune Feimster, Paul F. Tompkins, and Michelle Wolf.
100M viewers reportedly tuned in! Celeb fans include Jax Taylor (posted), Zach Braff, Sam Smith, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kim Kardashian West, and Vinny Guadagnino
