Joe Exotic

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Joe Exotic File:200122-joseph-maldonado-passage-al-1451 88a5b6b76087a298f4bf9b3b4335272b.jpg Full Name: Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage Alias: Joe Exotic The Tiger King Joe Maldonado Cody Ryan Aarrron Alex Origin: Garden City, Kansas, United States Occupation: Owner and operator of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (a.k.a. G. W. Zoo) in Wynnewood, Oklahoma (formerly) Skills: Big Cat Breeding, Manipulation Hobby: Buy and sell tigers Bossing his employees around Insulting Carol Baskin Goals: Get rid of his rival Carole Baskin (failed) Become Governor of Oklahoma (Failed) Crimes: Cruelty to animals Conspiracy to murder Involuntary manslaughter Extortion Domestic abuse Type of Villain: Animal Abuser / Attempted Murderer

“	I’m Joe Exotic, otherwise known as the Tiger King, the gay, gun-carrying redneck with a mullet.	„
	~ Joe Exotic introducing himself in Tiger King.

Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (né Schreibvogel; born March 5, 1963), better known as Joe Exotic, is an American former zoo operator and convicted felon.

In 2019, Maldonado-Passage was convicted on 17 federal charges of animal abuse (eight violations of the Lacey Act and nine of the Endangered Species Act) and two counts of murder for hire, for a plot to kill Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin. He is serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison. In 2020, Netflix released a eight-part documentary, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, focused on Maldonado-Passage, his zoo, and his feud with Baskin.

Friends and Enemies

Friends

• John Reinke
• John Finlay (until he left Joe for a woman)
• Dillon Passage
• Kelci Saffery
• Travis Maldonado
• Rick Kirkham
• Doc Antle
• Joshua Dial

Enemies

• Carole Baskin (Arch-Nemesis)
• Jeff Lowe
• Howard Baskin
• Allen Grover
• James Garretson ]]