Netflixs Tiger King What Happened To Carole Baskin & Big Cat Rescue

Netflix’s Tiger King: What Happened To Carole Baskin & Big Cat Rescue

What happened to Carole Baskin, the wildlife entrepreneur who is featured in Tiger King? Here’s why she’s not happy with Netflix’s portrayal of her.

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Netflixs Tiger King What Happened To Carole Baskin & Big Cat Rescue

What happened to Carole Baskin, the wildlife entrepreneur who is prominently featured in Tiger King? The seven-part Netflix docuseries examines her professional relationship with Joe Exotic, the founder of Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, who allegedly plotted to murder the Big Cat Rescue owner. As it turns out, Baskin isn’t thrilled with her portrayal in Tiger King.

Baskin discusses a “bad guy network” in Tiger King, and addresses rumors that she’s responsible for the 1997 death of her first husband, Don Lewis. The Netflix docuseries devotes an entire episode to “The Secret,” in which Baskin recalls meeting Lewis in 1981 and how they married 10 years later before opening Big Cat Rescue in 1992. According to Tiger King’s Joe Exotic, Baskin theoretically orchestrated the murder of her husband for financial purposes, as their 40-acre property had become especially profitable. Tiger King on Netflix features interviews with Lewis’ daughters, who believe that Baskin is somehow responsible for their father’s death. When Lewis disappeared, he was 60 years old. Baskin was then 36 years old, and later transformed Big Cat Rescue for the digital age, as the Florida-based company currently has over 2 million Facebook followers, over 300,000 Twitter followers, and more than 100,000 Instagram followers. Tiger King released on Netflix in March 2020, two months after Joe Exotic received a 22-year prison sentence for federal convictions of animal abuse and murder-for-hire.

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Two days after Netflix released Tiger King, Baskin published an essay entitled “Refuting Netflix Tiger King” on the Big Cat Rescue website, an organization that she leads to this day with her current husband, Howard Baskin. She reveals that Lewis was showing signs of mental deterioration in the years before death, and that she later discovered he’d been diagnosed as having Bi-Polar Disorder. According to Baskin, various people featured in Tiger King took advantage of Lewis’ declining health and the fact that he couldn’t read beyond a first grade level. She specifically calls out Tiger King interviewee Anne McQueen, Don’s alleged “trusted assistant” who – according to Baskin – was caught “embezzling roughly $600,000 in properties.” The Big Cat Rescue founder also refutes Don’s “wealth,” both when she first met him and when they were married.

Tiger King reveals that Lewis took out a restraining order against his wife two months before his disappearance. Baskin connects this to his declining mental health and sex addiction. She states that “He [Lewis] would go to Costa Rica during the week I was having my menstrual cycle. I accepted this as something I had to live with.” During this time, Baskin would remove “junk” that Lewis had been hoarding, and implies that Tiger King interviewee Wendell Williams (whom she describes as “a very good con man”) informed him about what was happening. According to Baskin, the police told Lewis that he would need a restraining order to prevent anything else from being removed. She also claims that Williams operated an illegal dump site on the property that would ultimately become Big Cat Rescue. After his failure to repay loans, Lewis and Baskin ended up with the 40 acres.

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Baskin also clarifies statements about her Costa Rica theory and addresses statements made by Lewis’ daughters and first wife. She also reveals that she used the word “disappearance” in Power of Attorney paperwork because Lewis had been loaning money to the Helicopter Brothers, who “were the local version of the mafia.” As for Joe Exotic, the main focus of the Netflix docuseries, Baskin wrote the following after his 2019 sentencing: “I am grateful that justice was served and Joe Schreibvogel Maldonado-Passage hopefully will serve time in prison and no longer present a threat either to me or to his former big cats.” Netflix’s Tiger King ultimately highlights what became of Big Cat Rescue in the end, and what Baskin has been doing with her life after Joe Exotic was arrested and sentenced to prison.

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