Tiger King star Joe Exotic engaged to fellow prison inmate
Updated: 09:44 GMT, 31 October 2024
Joe Exotic announced he's engaged to be married despite being in the midst of a 21-year federal prison sentence.
'Meet Jorge Marquez he is 33. He is so amazing and is from Mexico,' Exotic, 61, wrote in his post on X (formerly Twitter) this week while being incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth.
'Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out,' the Garden City, Kansas native added. 'Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.'
The Tiger King maintains he submitted a marriage application to the federal prison to wed Marquez, according to the man also known Joseph Maldonado-Passage.
His fiancé is serving time for immigration-related issues, according to a report from CBS News.
Both men are not only optimistic the prison will approve their wedding application, they also still have 'high hopes' that Exotic's appeal of his entire case, including his conviction for hiring hitmen to kill animal activist Carole Baskin, will succeed.
He claims to have evidence such as 'video confessions under oath' and '700 phone recordings of federal agents.'