"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic is delaying prostate cancer treatments until after his resentencing on convictions for a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws, according to a motion filed in federal court.
The former Oklahoma zookeeper, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage and is referred to as Joseph Maldonado in the Wednesday filing, announced last month that he has prostate cancer.
He was transferred weeks later from a federal medical center in Fort Worth, Texas, to a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina.
Federal officials have said Maldonado-Passage will need up to eight weeks of radiation treatments and would be unable to travel during the treatments.
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