Carole Baskin Awarded Control Over Joe Exotic’s Zoo
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variety.comBy Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Score one for team Big Cat Rescue. A federal judge granted Carole Baskin control of the zoo formerly owned by Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic from Netflix’s “Tiger King.” “The Courthouse News” reports that Baskin and Big Cat Rescue will soon have full control over Exotic’s former zoo properties in Oklahoma.
The imprisoned star of the docuseries spent a large part of his career harassing Baskin in a brutal rivalry captured on camera.
After escalating from video theatrics to threats, Exotic was arrested for two counts of murder-for-hire. Before he went to prison, Baskin sued Exotic for trademark infringement in 2013 after he repurposed and manipulated the Big Cat Rescue
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