‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic, 61, Engaged to Fellow Inmate, 33 [Video]

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Netflix’s Tiger King star Joe Exotic, also known as Joe Maldonado-Passage, is reportedly engaged for the third time while serving a 21-year prison sentence for murder-for-hire.

The 61-year-old reality TV personality announced his engagement to 33-year-old Jorge Marquez, whom he met while incarcerated. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, October 28, Joe introduced his fiancé to fans, writing, “He is so amazing and is from Mexico.”

A pair of the 39 tigers rescued in 2017 from Joe Exotic’s G.W. Exotic Animal Park relax at the Wild Animal Sanctuary on April 5, 2020 in Keenesburg, Colorado. Exotic recent revealed he is engaged…Marc Piscotty/Getty Images

Joe elaborated on the couple’s future plans, stating, “Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we [will] be leaving America when we both get out. Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.”

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