Time to cell-ebrate.
“Tiger King” star Joe Unique – who’s serving a 21-year federal jail sentence – revealed he’s engaged to a fellow inmate he hopes to wed behind bars in December.
“Meet Jorge Marquez he’s 33. He’s so superb and is from Mexico,” the Netflix star, 61, posted to his X account on Monday with an image of him and his jailbird.
“Now, the hunt of getting married in jail and getting him asylum or we be leaving America after we each get out. Both manner, I want I’d have met him way back.”
This will likely be his third marriage.
The convicted felon, whose actual identify is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, married Dillon Passage in December 2017 simply two months after Unique’s earlier husband, Travis Maldonado, died in a self-inflicted, unintentional capturing.
The docuseries stars separated in 2020 and filed for divorce the following yr.
“We love one another very a lot, spend each minute of the day collectively,” Unique advised Leisure Weekly of his new beau.
“I’ve been via some s–t in my days. I buried two husbands, the third one ran off with $2.6 million bucks from Netflix and left my ass right here, however Jorge is a really superb younger man.”
Unique advised the outlet he filed for his or her marriage ceremony license and hopes the jail warden permits them to wed on Dec. 12.
The previous zookeeper is at the moment incarcerated on the Federal Medical Heart in Fort Price, Texas, serving a 21-year sentence for scheming to rent a hitman to homicide nemesis Carole Baskin and violating federal wildlife legal guidelines.
Unique gained worldwide fame from the Netflix 2020 docuseries “Tiger King: Homicide, Mayhem and Insanity” which showcased his work and private life as he taken care of unique huge cats at his G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
He was arrested in September 2018, within the midst of filming the favored Netflix present, after federal prosecutors mentioned he supplied $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent throughout a December 2017 assembly to kill the Massive Cat Rescue founder.
Unique’s sentence was decreased by one yr in January 2022, bringing him to a 21-year time period.
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