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No! Carole Baskin Awarded Joe Exotic’s Tiger Zoo In Court Settlement

Emily Zanotti
No! Carole Baskin Awarded Joe Exotic’s Tiger Zoo In Court Settlement
Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A federal judge in Oklahoma handed a victory to the “Tiger King’s” foe, Carole Baskin, awarding Baskin control of Joe “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage’s former tiger park in Garvin County, Oklahoma, though she did not win ownership of Joe Exotic’s remaining big cats.

Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison for allegedly concocting and then paying for a failed murder-for-hire plot against Baskin as well as his mistreatment of around a dozen tigers.

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