‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic Files Lawsuit from Prison, Seeks Nearly $94 Mil – TMZ

Joe Fresh — the eccentric, wild and tantalizing convict tiger breeder featured within the wildly popular Netflix docuseries ‘Tiger King’ — is suing from penal complex … claiming a huge conspiracy within the help of him being locked up, and it resulted in the demise of his mother.

Whereas you bear considered the uncover, you understand Joe — true title Joseph Maldonado-Passage — is with out doubt one of the most excellent names within the huge cat alternate. Whereas you haven’t considered it … SPOILERS AHEAD.

Anyway, Fresh ran a favored zoo in Oklahoma unless he was stumbled on responsible of a kill-for-hire space in 2019, nonetheless per modern appropriate docs obtained by TMZ … he claims he was falsely arrested and imprisoned, and the sufferer of malicious prosecution and discrimination.

Nonetheless, let’s help up, because firstly … Joe’s suing the U.S. Division of Interior and the U.S. Federal Natural world Carrier for putting the “generic tiger” on the endangered species record. Fresh claims this was carried out for the one real real reason of concentrating on companies admire his, and truly … striking him out of alternate.

As he locations it, this equates to “stealing my property and promoting an animal rights agenda.”

Joe also alleges he was “discriminated in opposition to because he’s the completely particular person charged with this statute because [he] is an overtly homosexual male with the excellent sequence of generic tigers and crossbreeds.”

In step with the swimsuit, he needs $78,840,000 for the loss of his personal property and 18 years’ price of his work with tigers for this.

As for his felony conviction, he’s going after a handful of of us all in favour of the case — along with his ragged alternate accomplice, Jeff Lowe, for allegedly mendacity to the feds and planting proof in opposition to him.

He accuses another ragged colleague of being an informant and claims the sum of all this contributed to the passing of his mother, Shirley.

Joe’s seeking an further $15 million for this.