“Tiger King” Joe Exotic has gotten married again while locked up in prison — to an inmate doing time for immigration crimes whom he hopes to help get asylum in the US.
The incarcerated former zookeeper shared a picture his new husband, 33-year-old Mexican national Jorge Flores Maldonado, Tuesday night posing together in tuxedos and plain white hats with white boutonnières to match.
“Never been more proud of someone,” wrote the Netflix star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage.
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“Meet my husband Jorge Flores Maldonado.”
Maldonado’s new husband is currently serving time for immigration issues, the reality star previously said, according to CBS News.
Exotic posted back in October after he’d announced his engagement that he was working on “getting [Marquez] asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out.”
In response to one social media user wishing him luck in his case appeal Tuesday, Maldonado said he has “no problem going to Mexico” with his new husband if released.
The convicted felon had previously married Dillon Passage in December 2017 — just two months after Exotic’s previous husband, Travis Maldonado, died in a self-inflicted, accidental shooting. They split in 2020.
Maldonado is currently serving a 21-year sentence for plotting to hire a hitman to murder big-cat arch-rival Carole Baskin and violating federal wildlife laws.
The eccentric prisoner gained worldwide fame from the Netflix 2020 docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” that showcased his work and personal life as he looked after exotic big cats at his G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
He was arrested in September 2018 in the middle of filming the show after he offered $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent during to kill Baskin.
