Joe Exotic became incredibly famous following the Tiger King documentary which was broadcasted on Netflix at the start of the pandemic lockdown. It’s been almost three months since the world became aware of Exotic and he is still on many people’s minds. As it stands, Exotic is in jail for putting a hit out on his archnemesis Carole Baskin although he still maintains his innocence. 

Now, Exotic is reaching out to his fans and he seems to be in despair. Throughout the new letter obtained by TMZ, Exotic says phrases like “my soul is dead” and “I’ll be dead in 2-3 months.” Exotic notes that since the pandemic is dying out, President Trump should have him exonerated and removed from the jail.

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The Tiger King star also claims that the prison isn’t allowing him to take the meds he needs for his health problems and it’s making him feel sick. Exotic went so far as to say that he feels like he is on death row right now and that he needs support more than ever. To make matters worse, Exotic is being fed information about his husband Dillon Passage, who has reportedly ghosted him.

Needless to say, the situation is dire for Exotic and he seems to be desperate to get out. There is currently a legal team working on a campaign to get a Presidential pardon for Exotic, although it remains to be seen if that goes anywhere.

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Overnight, Carole Baskin became a pop culture phenomenon. She went from being a beloved figure to her “cats and kittens” who kept up with her big cat rescue efforts, but after the release of Netflix’s Tiger King, Carole and her co-stars became international superstars. However, while Joe Exotic’s antics were laughed at, Carole Baskin and the mysterious case of her missing husband, Don Lewis, caused millions to believe she killed him.

While Joe Exotic remains behind bars for allegedly plotting the murder of Carole Baskins, she has recently been awarded his 16-acre zoo in Oklahoma after winning a lawsuit against the eccentric figure. The public has called for the investigation into Lewis’s missing person case to be reopened, and it looks as if that request is well on its way.

“They called in some experts to say that the will was a forgery and I had already told them that two months ago,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said Tuesday (June 2), according to Entertainment Weekly. “They had two experts deem it 100% a forgery.” Carole Baskin was awarded millions from her wealthy husband after he vanished in 1997 and was deemed legally dead in 2002. In Tiger King, Lewis’s family members were angry with Baskin because they claimed she didn’t give them any of the money.

Meanwhile, Baskin has denied she had anything to do with her husband’s disappearance. “Don was not easy to live with and like most couples, we had our moments. But I never threatened him and I certainly had nothing to do with his disappearance,” Baskin previously stated. “When he disappeared, I did everything I could to assist the police. I encouraged them to check out the rumors from Costa Rica, and separately I hired a private investigator.” It’s unclear what these new alleged forgery findings will lead to in the future.

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“Tiger King” Joe Exotic has got to be screaming and punching the air in his prison cell after it was announced that Carole Baskin, his longtime nemesis, was granted control of his former zoo.

The feud between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin was chronicled in the ultra-successful docu-series Tiger King, and it appears as though a major new development has been made in their story.

A judge has officially ruled in favor of Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue Corporation in a lawsuit against Greater Wynnewood Development Group, which was formerly owned by Joe Exotic. With the judge’s decision, Baskin now owns the land that Joe Exotic operated his famous zoo on. 

The GWDC must vacate the premises within 120 days.

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In addition to the 16 acres of land that Carole Baskin now has access to, she has also been granted vehicles, cabins, and more. 

Joe Exotic is currently serving a 22-year sentence in prison for threatening to have Carole Baskin killed in a murder-for-hire plot. He allegedly tried to pay a man $3,000 to kill Baskin, also breaking the law when he shot and killed five tigers and lied about selling baby lemurs. 

Jeff Lowe, who took control of the zoo following Joe Exotic’s arrest, made a statement his attorney.

“We anticipated Carole Baskin getting the title to the former park that once belonged to Joe Exotic, and we did not challenge her attempts to do so,” said Walter Mosley. “All of Jeff’s focus is on opening the new Tiger King Park in Thackerville, (Oklahoma), which should be opening in the next 120 days.”

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Joe Exotic is a name that just won’t leave the news, apparently. Of course, Mr. Exotic became a huge star thanks to the infamous Tiger King documentary on Netflix which eventually became an international phenomenon. Exotic is currently in jail for putting a hit out on his rival, Carole Baskin but as it turns out, there are people who want to see him freed from jail.

In a recent video statement to TMZ, a private investigator by the name of Eric Love spoke about his plans to get the Tiger King out of jail. Essentially, Love is taking a tour bus to the White House where he wants to speak to President Donald Trump about giving Exotic a pardon. Love is adamant that Exotic is guilty and believes the President can make things right.

“Well, hey, greetings from Fort Worth, Texas,” Love said. “Just letting you know we’re leaving out Monday the 18th at 7 a.m. out of Forth Worth, Texas. We are heading to Washington D.C. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, son! This will be a case of redemption.” 

At this point, it remains to be seen if Love will even be granted a meeting with the President. A pardon is something you have to work very hard for and if you don’t build a good enough case, it’s just not going to happen.

Stay tuned for updates on this story.

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One of the biggest documentaries of all time, Tiger King, is about to get another new episode.

Striking Netflix just in time for the quarantine, boredom-stricken Americans were given a new reason to wake up in the morning, binging all seven episodes of the docu-series in exciting fashion. We’ve all moved on to a new documentary, becoming fully enthralled by The Last Dance and the riveting story of Michael Jordan‘s career, but the producers behind Tiger King are planning to hook us all over again.

Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the filmmaking duo behind the hit documentary, are reportedly working on a new project that will center around the Siegfried & Roy mauling incident. The two entertainers were best known for their variety show in Las Vegas, which ended in 2003 after Roy Horn was left partially paralyzed by a white tiger who mauled him.

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The new project will center on the mauling and a singular follow-up episode to Tiger King will also air about it. We’ll see how the producers tie together both stories.

The timing of this announcement is remarkable, especially considering Roy Horn passed away this past week due to COVID-19 complications. It remains unknown if his partner, Siegfried Fischbacher, will appear in the new series.

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Will you be watching?

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Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber's DIY music video for their new collaboration, "Stuck With U," may be fan-made, but one individual's submission did not quite make the cut. The pop stars announced last week that they'd linked up to deliver their first-ever duet, "Stuck With U," to support coronavirus relief efforts. They revealed that all the proceeds from streams and sales would be donated to First Responders Children’s Foundation to fund grants and scholarships for children of healthcare workers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, police officers and firefighters.

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The duo also invited fans to send in their own videos of themselves dancing to the instrumental of "Stuck With U" to celebrate who they're "stuck" with during quarantine, and have a chance to be included in the official music video for the single. On Thursday (May 7th), just hours before the official release, however, Ari revealed that she had consciously excluded one "fan" in particular from the video's final cut: Tiger King star, Carole Baskin.

In what can only be described as a match made in heaven, hell, or a combination of the above — Nicolas Cage has officially been tapped to play Joe Exotic in a scripted Tiger King series. Upon a brief reflection, it’s not exactly surprising to see the Oscar-winning actor gravitating toward the Exotic, who has become a pop-culture staple damn near overnight. The possibilities for hamming it up are staggeringly high, and Cage’s wide-eyed rapturous intensity has been the subject of memes for years upon years — who better to play a meme than a meme himself?

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The series, which will mark Cage’s first television role, is being produced by Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios. As for the creative minds behind it, Dan Lagana of American Vandal has already been locked in as showrunner, executive producer, and writer. According to the initial report from Variety, this series is set to be based on Leif Reigstad’s Texas Monthly article Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild. 

Aside from this surreal development, little else is known about the upcoming series — save for it being but one of many upcoming Tiger King related properties. If you thought the original Netflix documentary series was ubiquitous enough wait until we’re fielding the Nicolas Cage series, Kate McKinnon’s upcoming turn as Carole Baskins in a separate show, yet another Joe Exotic series with Rob Lowe attached, and finally an additional documentary on Baskins and Exotic’s tumultuous relationship as mortal enemies. Will you be tuning in to watch this one unfold?

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YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners tricked Tiger King’s Carole Baskin into giving her first interview since the show’s premiere by posing as producers for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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“Here’s a chance where we could perhaps interview some high-level talent because we are going under the guise of being a really famous show,” Pieters told Insider. “And we thought, why don’t we take a shot in the dark and go for the most exclusive, hard to reach person in the world, with absolutely no hope of it working?”

“I think it’s also very hard when you are live on an interview with who you think is James Corden or Jimmy Fallon, to go, ‘Hold on a second, that’s not Jimmy Fallon,’ when it sounds like him,” Pieters continued. “You’d have to be pretty sure of yourself and pretty brave to stop the interview.”

Afterward, Baskin spoke to Us Weekly about the prank: “I was suspicious as we were doing it because the questions appeared taped,” she said. “But had no idea it would turn out to be such a fun prank. It gave us a very welcome good laugh. I appreciate their cleverness and that they created their video in a way that I don’t feel was in any way mean-spirited.”

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Due to the Coronavirus-imposed quarantine, people have been looking for something to fill their time. As it stands, we are all stuck at home and there isn’t much for us to do. Thankfully, entertainment hubs such as Netflix give us something to pay attention to while we look to pass the time. Back in March, Netflix blessed us with the “Tiger King” documentary, right at the beginning of quarantine. The documentary quickly became a global phenomenon and to this day, people are still obsessed with it.

Meanwhile, ESPN has recently begun to roll out episodes of “The Last Dance,” which is their Michael Jordan docuseries. This MJ doc has already become a huge success and we are only four out of 10 episodes in. According to Lucas Shaw of Bloomberg, “The Last Dance” is now officially more popular than “Tiger King” based on new metrics.

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Perhaps the most impressive part about “The Last Dance” is the sheer number of people tuning in every single Sunday. For example, on April 26th, 6.1 million people tuned in for episode 3 while 5.7 million tuned in for episode 4. In fact, “The Last Dance” is already the most-watched documentary in the history of ESPN.

Clearly, fans are enjoying the docuseries and with three more weeks of episodes, we are all in for a big treat.

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The wildly popular Netflix docu-series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness picked up insane ratings earlier this month because of all the twists and turns presented. The show follows Joe Exotic, a flamboyant big cat zoo owner, who has an intensely personal rivalry against Carole Baskin. His hatred for her ended up earning him a long-term prison sentence after he allegedly paid somebody to murder her. 

One of the main plot points presented in the series surrounds the disappearance of Carole Baskin’s ex-husband Don Lewis. Many people, including Joe Exotic, suggested that Baskin is responsible for the murder of her ex-husband, feeding him to the tigers so that his remains were never found. Don Lewis’ lawyer has a different theory.

Speaking with Nancy Grace, Don Lewis’ attorney Joseph Fritz said that he believes the man was killed. However, he doesn’t think it happened the way Joe Exotic suggested.

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“What I had heard was that he was strangled from the backseat of an airplane over the Gulf [of Mexico] at 50 feet and dropped out over the Gulf,” he said, describing the crime in true Scarface fashion. “Don Lewis, he was terribly cheap while he was very wealthy. He was cheap beyond belief. What would have lured him more than anything else is a good deal on an airplane. So that’s what I assume happened — that he got lured up to the Pilot Country Estates to look at an airplane.”

What do you think about this new development?

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