TIGER King’s Joe Exotic showed he was ready for fame long before his Netflix series made it to living rooms worldwide in a never-before-seen sizzle reel.
Producer Rick Kirkham - who appeared on the show - supplied the footage from the reality-show pilot centered around Joe and his Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma.
Rick filmed with Joseph “Exotic” Maldonado-Passage, 57, for an entire year before their entire production studio mysteriously burned down in flames in the middle of the night.
The TV producer lost almost all of the footage - which he maintains shows Joe mistreating staffers and abusing animals. The former Inside Edition reporter supplied what was left of the remaining tapes to the filmmakers behind Tiger King.
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