Joe Exotic Dumps Fiancé – Tiger King Star Proposed to Jail Gangbanger
The Tiger King has a new man in his life.
October 30, 2024, published at 2:46 PM ET
Joe Exotic can now call a new man his fiancée after proposing while behind bars.
RadarOnline.com can exclusively provide the Tiger King star has called off his previous engagement and now has someone new in his life.
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Joe Exotic, born Joseph Maldonado-Passage, has a new man in his life.
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In exclusive clips obtained by RadarOnline.com, the former reality star born Joseph Maldonado-Passage confirmed that his four-year engagement is no more as he proposed to a 33-year-old inmate named Jorge Marquez.
Maldonado-Passage wrote on X: “He is so amazing and from Mexico.
“Now the quest to get married in prison and get him asylum or we’ll leave America when we both get out.”
The 61-year-old added: “Anyway, I wish I had met him a long time ago.”
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Maldonado-Passage proposed to fellow inmate Joseph Marquez-Flores while he was behind bars.
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In his prison interview with RadarOnline.com, Maldonado-Passage said, “Whether it helps his immigration status or not, we love each other enough to get married. We even have matching wedding rings tattooed on us already.”
The Netflix star explained: “What it would do is give him the assurance, and show the court, that he has some financial stability to stay in America.”
“It will look better for his asylum case if he gets married. We just hope that prison will allow us to get married and stay in the same prison,” Maldonado-Passage added.
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Maldonado-Passage also revealed that the couple “will have to wait for the prison to approve everything,” adding, “I really think they will.”
He said: ‘I’m confident. We’re not causing any problems here. We don’t use drugs. We respect the rules of the prison. I really believe they will approve.
“He will be released in May next year, so that gives us seven months to complete my appeal and find out where I stand. We hope to be walking out the door around the same time.”
Maldonado-Passage also shared whether he can’t get help from the government to “keep him here… I think I’ll go to Mexico.”
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The ‘Tiger King’ star revealed he hopes the marriage will ‘look better’ [his fiancé’s] asylum case.
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This isn’t Maldonado-Passage’s first chance at love, as he was previously engaged for “four years” before ending the relationship.
He told RadarOnline.com that the engagement didn’t quite live up to his expectations: “Out of those four years, I got one letter. Never a birthday card, never a Christmas card. He never came to see me. He’s only four hours away.” And it was always money, money, money for this, money for that.
“So, you know, I woke up and realized that this honestly wasn’t going to happen for either of us. It was just there for whatever he could get out of it.”
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Marquez-Flores is scheduled to be released from prison in 2025.
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Maldonado-Passage then shared the email he wrote to his now former fiancée: “I said, ‘It’s been seven months since you had your arrest warrants dropped and you got your insurance and your driver’s license back and I’m Je pay insurance for seven months, and you can’t care enough about me to drive four hours to visit me… Shows how important I am.
“‘Then you say that when you come, you wouldn’t even want to kiss. Tell me, has this been a game all along?’ And he says, ‘I don’t care, I didn’t do anything wrong, so whatever.’ That’s his answer.”
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Maldonado-Passage said he hopes the couple will be released “around the same time.”
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Maldonado-Passage was first married to Travis Maldonado, who accidentally shot himself and died. Two months later, he tied the knot with Dillon Passage, but they split in 2021 after three years of marriage.
Passage said at the time: “We are still on good terms and I hope this can continue. I will continue to have Joe in my life and do my best to support him as he undergoes further legal battles to improve his situation .”
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Maldonado-Passage is best known for his ‘Tiger King’ series on Netflix.
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