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Joe Exotic
Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage (born March 5, 1963), better known by his stage name Joe Exotic, is an American former zoo operator, internet personality, musician, and convicted felon. The former owner and operator of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (a.k.a. G. W. Zoo) in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, Maldonado-Passage had claimed to be the most prolific breeder of tigers in the United States. He twice unsuccessfully ran for public office, first for President of the United States in 2016 as an independent, and then for Governor of Oklahoma in 2018 as a Libertarian.
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thesun.co.ukTO the outside world Joe Exotic was the eccentric zookeeper who owned 1200 lions, tigers and bears in the middle of Oklahoma.
But behind the “gay, gun-toting cowboy with a mullet,” as he liked to refer to himself, lay a far more sinister character. For two decades he was a local celebrity who bred hybrid big cats including ligers - the offspring of a male lion and female tiger - at his roadside zoo in Wynnewood.
He called himself the Tiger King, made 28 songs, sold merchandise from branded t-shirts to condoms and opened a pizza restaurant called ‘Zooters’ - a male version of Hooters.
He also re-homed Michael Jackson’s alligators from the Neverland Ranch after the singer’s death - before they ended up being boiled alive in a fire.
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