Joseph Maldonado-Passage is better known as Joe Exotic, and perhaps best known as the titular star of Tiger King's first season.
The first season, because he was sentenced to 22 years in prison over a murder-for-hire scheme and numerous animal abuses.
No one is really interested in Tiger King 2 or its twisted attempt to redeem Joe Exotic.
But that does not mean that people have forgotten the documentary's stars ... including Carole Baskin.
Jeff Johnson, a reptile dealer known to reality TV fans for his role on the 2020 Netflix sensation Tiger King, died by suicide back on September 8.
He was 58 years old.
Remember March of 2020, when this pandemic business was just getting started, and we were all throwing around phrases like "two weeks to flatten the curve"?
We'd say it was a simpler time, but frankly, we're still traumatized by memories of disinfecting our groceries.
Carole Baskin is perhaps the most divisive figure to arise from 2020's Tiger King phenomenon.
When it comes to animal welfare, she's certainly in better standing than Joe Exotic.
Erik Cowie, one of the zookeepers who rose to unexpected fame as a main cast member on the Netflix documentary Tiger King in the spring of 2020, was found dead in New York City on Friday, September 3.
He was 53 years old.
Earlier this year, an increasingly desperate Joe Exotic hired a new attorney in his efforts to leave prison.
You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take, and the Tiger King star is trying anything and everything.
It has been over a year since the absolute madness of Tiger King first entered our lives.
Since then, Jeff Lowe has repeatedly insisted that Carole Baskin killed her husband decades ago.
Remember about a year ago, when everyone thought the pandemic would last for a few weeks, and social-distancing seemed like a funny footnote that we'd all look back on and laugh?
Around that same time, a docuseries called Tiger King became a surprise mega-hit for Netflix.
Thus far, all of Joe Exotic's ploys to get out of prison have failed.
The infamous Tiger King star remains behind bars and may remain there for decades.
Tiger King star Carole Baskin was targeted with a DWTS ad by the family of her missing husband.
Now, incarcerated reality star Joe Exotic appears to like that idea.
You would have to be gullible, have no respect for right and wrong, and be a self-aggrandizing fool to want to see Joe Exotic go free.
That's why Joe knows Donald Trump is his only chance at a pardon. And now he's suing to try to force the Orange Tyrant's hand.
For a guy who spent so much time bashing Joe Exotic both on and off camera, Jeff Lowe doesn't seem too pristine himself.
Now, Federal authorities are concerned for the welfare of the animals in his care ... but he's refusing to let them in to inspect things.
Dillon Passage has made it clear that every day is hard with Joe Exotic behind bars, but some days are clearly harder than others.
Over the weekend, the young Tiger King star was arrested.
Doc Antle, the one star of Tiger King who may be a worse human being than Joe Exotic, has been indicted on wildlife trafficking charges in Virginia.
The development was confirmed on Friday by the state’s attorney general in a press release.
If you think back to the beginning of this pesky little pandemic we find ourselves in, you might remember a time when we all thought social distancing would last a couple weeks, and the Netflix documentary Tiger King dominated the national conversation.
These days, we have more important matters to argue about than the misadventures of Joe Exotic, but as the world burns, questions remain about the checkered past of Exotic's number one rival.
Tiger King star Carole Baskin's crusade for the rights of big cats isn't limited to her neck of the woods.
Like everyone else, she's talking about Cardi B's WAP video ... and argues that it could be harmful.
Even though Jeff Lowe has his own shady past, the Tiger King star has not backed down in his accusations against the infamous Joe Exotic.
Now, authorities have finally answered his plea to search the park for buried murder victims ... but he says that it's not enough.
Infamous Tiger King star Joe Exotic claims that he may die soon in a bizarre and troubling open letter sent from prison.
Now, his much younger husband Dillon Passage is opening up about heartbreak and how he copes with Joe's imprisonment.
Hey... remember Tiger King?!?
It was this wildly popular Netflix documentary that seemingly the entire country was watching early on during the Covid-19 pandemic?
Well, we all knew this was coming.
As unnecessary as it might be, given the fact what made Tiger King so great is that it's the sort of story you just can't make up, the saga of Joe Exotic will now be given the Hollywood treatment.
There's a non-zero percent chance that Carole Baskin killed her ex-husband and fed his corpse to a tiger.
So it's pretty hard to feel bad for the Tiger King star.
If you're one of the millions of viewers who was captivated by the insanity of Tiger King when the docu-series debuted on Netflix in March, then you're no doubt familiar with the larger-than-life character known as Baghavad "Doc" Antle.
Joe Exotic describes Antle as a mentor, noting that he looked up to the zoo proprietor both for his skill with animals and his polyamorous lifestyle.
