Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King, has announced his engagement to a fellow inmate who is 28 years younger than him.
The 61-year-old, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is currently serving a 21-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. He recently shared on social media that he has begun a relationship with 33-year-old Jorge Marquez.
In his post, which included a photo of the couple, Exotic introduced Marquez, saying, “He is so amazing and is from Mexico. Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out. Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.”
Exotic also expressed a desire for both him and Marquez to be pardoned, stating, “Yep. Took me 61 years to find him now I got to convince [Donald] Trump to let me keep him in America.” …