Joe Exotic has tied the knot behind federal bars. This week, the Tiger King star introduced his marriage to fellow inmate Jorge Marquez.
Unique and Marquez’s engagement was introduced final fall, and although the precise timing of when and the way they had been married are unknown, Unique has shared AI-generated images of the 2 in tuxedos on social media. “By no means been extra pleased with somebody,” he wrote. “Meet my husband Jorge Flores Maldonado.”
Marquez, 34, is from Mexico, and reportedly met Unique after he was apprehended getting into the USA illegally. He finally ended up being held on the Federal Medical Heart in Fort Price, Texas the place Unique was additionally incarcerated, and the 2 allegedly struck up a romantic relationship.
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On Twitter final yr, Unique wrote that after their marriage, the couple could be specializing in “getting him asylum or we be [sic] leaving America after we each get out. Both means, I want I might have met him way back.”
Increasing on Instagram, Unique wrote this week, “[Marquez] has gotten me by way of a lot combating most cancers below these circumstances. All I pray to God for is Trump woll permit me to get pleasure from a little bit life outdoors with him earlier than it’s too late. I really like you Jorge you might be my life.”
In January 2020, two months earlier than the preliminary premiere of Tiger King, Unique was sentenced to 22 years in jail on 17 federal expenses of animal abuse and two counts of tried homicide for rent in a plot to kill rival huge cat fanatic Carole Baskin. In 2021, he was diagnosed with “aggressive cancer.”
In recent times, Unique has campaigned for his personal pardon, and to that finish, has ceaselessly tried to get Donald Trump’s consideration (together with asking to be named the head of the Fish and Wildlife Service). He’s additionally saved a gradual stream of content material coming on-line, together with a number of current usages of AI — he even shared a brand new, AI-sung nation tune, “Shadows into Mild,” in honor of his marriage to Marquez. Stream it under.
By no means been extra pleased with somebody.
Meet my husband Jorge Flores Maldonado pic.twitter.com/0Ee6lfxBSR— Joe Unique (@joe_exotic) April 22, 2025
