By: EFE
By: EFE
Joe Exotic , the exotic animal collector who starred in the Netflix show “ Tiger King “, revealed that he has been diagnosed with an” aggressive cancer “after undergoing a prostate exam.
” With a sad face I have to say … that my prostate biopsy results came back with aggressive cancer . (…) Pray for me and be my voice ”, published the man, who is serving a sentence in a Texas jail (USA), on his Twitter profile on Wednesday afternoon.
Exotic, original name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage , was sentenced to prison for planning the murder of Carole Baskin, owner of a zoo that competed with his own and whose enmity is the central plot of the series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness”, which swept Netflix in 2020.
The documentary series was followed by more than 64 million people in March of 2020 (according to Netflix data), coinciding with the first weeks of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
After entering prison, Exotic took advantage of his popularity to ask for a presidential pardon from former US president Donald Trump (1200 – 2021) that was not granted.
“If I have ever admired someone, it is you,” he said in a letter written to hand in which he also asked the former president to listen to his son Donald Trump Jr., who joked with a journalist about supporting a hypothetical pardon when the format had just been released.
What Exotic did achieve was that a court of appeals will lower his sentence from 22 years to 17 because in the first trial the two crimes for which accused were dealt with separately and therefore the sentence to be imposed was not correctly calculated.
Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin , the directors of “Tiger King”, have maintained contact with Exotic during his stay in prison and will premiere on 17 November a sequel that was about to be withheld when the other protagonist of the documentary, Carole Baskin , asked the justice for precautionary measures against the broadcast of the program to prevent “immediate damage” to his image.
However, a Florida state judge, Virginia Hernández Covington, estimated this week that she did not consider this measure necessary and that Netflix may broadcast the second part of the series.
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