"Tiger King" Joe Exotic announces prison engagement
Joe Exotic, made famous in the Netflix series "Tiger King" and currently serving time in federal prison, says he is engaged to a fellow inmate in Texas and hopes to get married.
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Joe Exotic, made famous in the Netflix series "Tiger King" and currently serving time in federal prison, says he is engaged to a fellow inmate in Texas and hopes to get married.
A federal judge in Oklahoma has resentenced "Tiger King" Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison, reducing his punishment by just a year despite pleas from him and his attorneys.
A federal judge in Oklahoma has set a January 28 date for the resentencing of "Tiger King" Joe Exotic.
A defense attorney says the former Oklahoma zookeeper known as "Tiger King" Joe Exotic has been transferred to a medical facility in North Carolina for federal inmates after a cancer diagnosis.
"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, has revealed he has an aggressive cancer.
The Canadian national who overstayed his visa to work as a keeper of exotic cats, Paul Michael Malagerio was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a gun crime.
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Federal law enforcement officers have seized some 68 protected big cats from Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe's Thackerville, Oklahoma, Tiger King Park.
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Joe Exotic of "Tiger King" fame has found new attorneys who say they plan to file a motion for a new trial in a matter of months.
The stretch limousine that sat outside the federal prison in Fort Worth on January 19 left empty -- this after President Donald Trump's flurry of pardons didn't include one for "Tiger King" Joe Exotic.
"Joe Exotic" Maldonado-Passage formally requested a pardon from President Donald Trump last year.
With President Donald Trump's term ending in less than 24 hours the man known as the Tiger King is waiting in a federal prison in Fort Worth to see if his request for a pardon will be granted.
A legal team for Joe Exotic gathered in Texas in the early morning hours of January 6. The group was at Meacham Airport in Fort Worth, boarding a plane for Washington, D.C. to ask President Donald Trump for a pardon.
The legal team for the Netflix star — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — argues that the denial isn't valid since his request was not presented directly to President Trump.
The Justice Department has filed an animal abuse complaint in Oklahoma, against Netflix's "Tiger King" star Jeff Lowe, the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park he took over from founder Joe Exotic in 2016 and Tiger King, LLC.
A North Texas millionaire has reportedly joined the fight to free Tiger King "Joe Exotic" from a Fort Worth prison.
The park will become "a private film set for Tiger King-related television content for cable and and streaming services," owner Jeff Lowe announced Tuesday.
The Oklahoma zoo featured in the "Tiger King" documentary has announced that it is closed to the public after its federal animal exhibition license was suspended.
A federal judge in Oklahoma has awarded ownership of the zoo made famous in Netflix's "Tiger King" docuseries to Joe Exotic's chief rival.
The legal team of Joe Maldonado-Passage, AKA Joe Exotic the Tiger King, will hit the road in pursuit of a pardon for the infamous former zoo owner from U.S. president Donald Trump.
He's been convicted of more than a dozen counts of animal cruelty and for conspiring to kill a woman, but now the man famously known as Joe Exotic is reportedly in COVID-19 quarantine at a Texas prison.
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Tyler police are searching for brothers Legend Sanford and Kannon O'Neal III.
State prosecutors said the couple was traveling in a pickup truck in the municipality of Angamacutiro when they were shot and killed.
Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, memorialized slain executive Brian Thompson in an op-ed and acknowledged industry flaws.
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