Joe Exotic announced that he was getting married despite serving 21 years in federal prison.
‘Meet Jorge Márquez. He is 33 years old. It’s so amazing and from Mexico,’ Exotic, 61, wrote in his post on X (formerly Twitter) this week while incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth.
“Now, get married in prison and give him asylum or we will both leave the United States when we get out,” the Garden City, Kansas, native added. “Anyway, I wish I had met him a long time ago.”
According to the man identified as Joseph Maldonado-Passage, Tiger King filed a marriage petition in federal prison to marry Marquez.
Her fiancé is serving time for immigration-related issues, according to a report from CBS News.
Joe Exotic, 61, announced that he is engaged to fellow inmate George Marquez, 33, both incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth.
Both men are not only hopeful that the prison will approve their marriage request, but they still have “high hopes” that Exotic’s appeal of his entire case, including his conviction for hiring a hitman to kill the animal activist Carol Baskin, be successful.
He claims to have evidence such as “sworn video confessions” and “700 telephone recordings of federal agents.”
In her press release, Exotic requested a presidential pardon for herself and her fiancé, as well as asylum for Márquez.
‘I want whoever wins the presidency or presidency to do the right thing and forgive me so I can get over this nightmare that my own country has put me through for the last 7 years of my life,’ Maldonado shared. ‘All I did was build a zoo and some people were very jealous. Then my own country put me in prison.
In a telephone interview with Dr. Entertainment tonight Maldonado-Passage released details about the current status of the process.
“Yesterday we submitted the official documents for the prison marriage license, so we are waiting for approval,” Exotic explained. “He chose December 12 as the date we hope to approve it.”
He stated that their marriage application “had to be approved by the director of psychiatry and the chaplain” before the license could be approved.
“We love each other so much, we spend every minute of the day together,” the Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness star revealed.
The so-called Tiger King says his fiancee, a native of Mexico, hopes for asylum after prison or “we will leave the United States when we both get out.”
Foreigner, also known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on 17 federal counts of animal cruelty for hire and two counts of attempted murder for conspiring to kill Big Cat Rescue founder Carol Baskin, but a US appeals court reduced the sentence. sentence to 21 years in 2019.
He added: ‘I’ve been through this several times in my days. I buried two husbands, a third ran off with $2.6 million from Netflix, and I left one of mine* here, but George is an incredible young man.’
Exotic was previously married to the late Travis Maldonado, who died after accidentally shooting himself in 2017, and Dillon Passage, whom she dated two months later. Their relationship ended when they decided to separate in 2020 and filed for divorce the following year.
In 2019, Exotic was convicted and Big Cat Rescue founder Carol Baskin was sentenced to 22 years in prison for 17 federal counts of animal cruelty for hire and two counts of attempted murder for conspiracy to murder.
Two years later, after filing a motion for a new trial, a US appeals court ruled that the two attempted murder convictions were considered improperly separate and consequently reduced his sentence by one year, ultimately to 21 years. . In prison at the end of January 2022.
The Kansas native is pushing to have his conviction overturned and obtain a presidential pardon from the man who will become president on January 20, 2025.
Exotic has been the subject of considerable criticism, particularly for his conflict with Baskin and the controversy over the treatment of animals at the GW Zoo.
He has appeared in several documentaries, including the hit Netflix series Tiger King (2020-2021), which chronicles his career as a zookeeper and his conflict with Baskin, and Louis Theroux’s Two America’s Most Dangerous Pets (2011) and Shooting Joe the Outlaw (2021).
There is also a television drama show based on the relationship between Carol Baskin and Joe Exotic called Joe vs. Carol which aired on March 3, 2022 on Peacock.
Carol Baskin was at the center of a murder-for-hire plot that sent the outlaw to prison.
The outsider is “hoping” to be released from prison in 2025 and already has ideas for life after prison, including an academic career.
The outsider is “optimistic” that he will be released from prison in 2025 and already has ideas for life behind bars that include an academic career.
The plan for him is to one day share his wealth of tiger knowledge in an educational setting, which can be harnessed through his lectures.
Earlier this month, Rogers filed an appeal denying a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, which was denied by a lower court.
According to his lawyer, Roger Root, there is enough evidence to show that Joe’s initial trial was “fundamentally riddled with errors” that “got to the very heart of the charges, and “had that evidence been known at the time, he would not have made . Convicted.’
