Joe Exotic Announces Engagement to Fellow Prison Inmate [Video]

Joe Exotic is getting married.

The Tiger King star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, got engaged while incarcerated. He announced the news on his social media, introducing the man he is set to marry with a photo.

“Meet Jorge Marquez he is 33,” Maldonado-Passage wrote. “He is so amazing and is from Mexico.”

“Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we [will] be leaving America when we both get out,” his statement continued. “Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.”

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This isn’t the Oklahoma zookeeper’s first marriage. Just two months before marrying ex-husband Dillon Passage, who was also on the Netflix hit, Maldonado-Passage was married to Travis Maldonado, who accidentally …