Tiger King Timeline When Each Major Joe Exotic Event Happens

Tiger King Timeline: When Each Major Joe Exotic Event Happens

Netflix documentary Tiger King documents the life, oddities, and crimes of big cat lover Joe Exotic. Here’s when each major event takes place.

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Netflix documentary Tiger King charts the life and crimes of Joe Exotic – and here’s when all the major events depicted take place. Directed by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, Tiger King dives into the world of American big cat and exotic animal ownership, with the truly unique Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic at its center. Joe, the former owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, claimed to be the most prolific breeder of tigers in the United States. The zoo had, at one point, over 200 big cats, including lions, tigers, and an assortment of rare and deeply controversial hybrid breeds such as ligers.

While the ostensible focus of Tiger King is the world of big cats in America, the real star of the show is Joe Exotic himself, in large part because he’s simply too strange to be true. His life, exploits, and ultimate fate feel like they were ripped from a Danny McBride series or Harmony Korine movie. Joe, a gay polyamorous lover of big cats who ran his own YouTube channel and even tried to run for President, is the sort of figure who begs to have a seven-episode miniseries document his life.

In that aspect, Tiger King certainly doesn’t disappoint, as the cameras (along with extensive footage from YouTube and an unmade reality series) capture his every move, from his Presidential and Gubernatorial campaigns to his throuple marriage to his feud with Carole Baskin, the owner of Big Cat Rescue and his personal nemesis. It’s a strange and deeply unbelievable journey and one that’s still ongoing thanks to Joe’s prison sentence. Here’s the full timeline of the most notable events in Joe Exotic’s never-ending madcap life.

Joe Exotic Starts His Zoo – 1999

Before starting his zoo, Joe Exotic worked as a police officer in Eastvale, Texas. After one of his siblings outed him as gay to his parents, he attempted suicide by crashing his police car into a bridge. He survived but with major injuries that required extensive rehab. After leaving the force, Joe opened a pet store in Arlington, Texas, with his brother Garold and first husband, Brian Rhyne, in 1986. It was here that he began to discover his love for exotic animals. After Garold’s death in 1997, Joe decided to channel his and his brother’s love of exotic animals into a new passion. After selling the pet store, he purchased a small farm on Oklahoma and turned it into the Garold Wayne Exotic Animal Memorial Park, which opened in 1999. It later changed its name to the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Joe acquired his first tigers in 2000, and soon the zoo rapidly expanded to include hundreds of big cats as well as dozens of other animals, such as gorillas and alligators.

Joe Exotic’s Battles With Carole Baskin Begin – 2010

As the zoo expanded, so did Joe’s ambitions. As well as operating the park itself, Joe began to perform sideshows around the country with his animals and toured shopping malls, allowing paying customers the opportunity to get their pictures taken with a baby tiger. It was this practice that caught the attention of one Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue. A major part of the charity’s work is in campaigning for an end to the private trade and ownership of such animals, be it as pets or as sideshow attractions. Joe Exotic’s particular brand caught her eye in 2010 and she mobilized her followers to email the malls he had booked to warn them of what she described as unethical practices. Mainly, her chief accusation was that Joe and big cat owners like him would breed animals solely to procure cubs that could be put on display for such attractions. Baskin had previously commented on Joe Exotic’s business in 2004, when she was quoted in an article in the Oklahoman which described a severely sick lion cub that Joe had for the traveling shows, a possible result of inbreeding.

After Joe Exotic caught wind of Big Cat Rescue’s actions against him, he launched a one-man war against her. Baskin was frequently the subject of his YouTube videos, where he often threatened her, called her misogynistic names, and made unfounded accusations about her past. He even infamously released a country song that dramatized the urban legend that Baskin had killed her first husband and fed him to her tigers (this allegation originated in a People Magazine profile about Baskin and her late husband and has never been rooted in fact or any sort of evidence).

One way Joe decided to wage war against Baskin was through copyright infringement. He began using the name Big Cat Rescue and the charity’s logo for his own traveling shows in an attempt to overtake her in Google searches and give the impression that the sanctuary was sponsoring these practices. In January 2011, Baskin sued him in federal court for trademark infringement. Joe’s online threats increased, and his dramatics did nothing to stop him from losing the lawsuit. As a result, he now owed Baskin $1 million, which led him to file for bankruptcy. After many months of squabbling, the two sides came very close to an agreement: Joe would pay small settlements every month to Baskin and Big Cat Rescue and also agree not to breed big cats or offer cub petting at the zoo. The legal battle was nearly over until one Jeff Lowe stepped onto the scene.

Jeff Lowe’s Involvement In Joe Exotic’s Zoo – 2015

Joe Exotic first met Jeff Lowe in 2015 when Lowe bought a tiliger from him and claimed that he planned to open his own animal sanctuary in Colorado. The two became friends and business partners soon thereafter. As the costs over the Baskin lawsuit mounted, Joe offered to put his zoo in Lowe’s name as a way to protect his assets from Baskin. Lowe then moved to Oklahoma with his wife and began running the zoo. At the time, he believed that Lowe, who lived in a large Las Vegas home and bragged about his wealth, was a rich businessman. In reality, he was a convicted criminal had pleaded guilty to federal mail-fraud charges after he posed as an employee of a charity for domestic abuse victims to obtain $1 million worth of merchandise that he later resold. While the zoo was Jeff Lowe’s business now, Joe Exotic was still the face of the operation and its main figurehead.

Joe’s Presidential and Governor Campaigns – 2016-2018

Joe Exotic decided to run as an independent candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election, running a campaign that primarily seemed to involve videos of himself in front of his big cats, one of which caught the attention of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Joe attained ballot access in Colorado and received 962 votes nationwide. He then chose to run for Governor of Oklahoma in the 2018 elections.

Exotic ran in the primary to obtain the Libertarian Party’s candidacy, hiring Joshua Dial, a former Walmart manager, to run his campaign. In Tiger King, Dial famously says that he thought Joe Exotic was “batsh*t crazy” and didn’t seem to know what a libertarian actually was. He also seemed to truly believe that he would win the election and become Governor of Oklahoma. Joe came third out of three candidates for the Libertarian ticket, gaining 18.7% of the vote.

Travis Maldonado’s Death By Accidental Suicide – 2017

In the midst of the Governor campaign, Joe Exotic experienced the trauma of losing one of his husbands to accidental suicide. Then-19-year-old Travis Maldonado arrived at Joe’s zoo in December 2013 as a struggling meth addict. Less than a month later, he, Joe, and John Finlay were married in a throuple ceremony, complete with matching pink shirts and monkey ring-bearers.

In October 2017, Maldonado had been in the office behind the zoo’s gift shop where he was joking around with a pistol. Joshua Dial was there at the time and watched as Maldonado took the magazine out of the gun, believing that the gun would not fire when he pulled the trigger. With the gun against his head and a bullet still in the chamber, Maldonado died instantly. He was 23 years old. CCTV footage of this moment – with Maldonado out of shot – is shown in Tiger King.

Joe Exotic’s Plan To Have Carole Baskin Killed – 2017

Between Maldonado’s death and his political campaigning, Joe Exotic began to lose his drive to run the zoo. He was also losing control over the operation thanks to Jeff Lowe. His grudge against Carole Baskin, however, was more powerful than ever. After making countless threats against her life over the years, in February 2017, Joe had asked a zoo employee, Ashley Webster, if she would be willing to travel to Florida and shoot Baskin in the head for a small fee. Webster quit her job and warned Baskin about this threat, which led her to get in touch with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which had been investigating Joe and the zoo for potential wildlife crimes.

Joe Garretson, a businessman and former strip club owner, became involved with Joe Exotic and alleged that Joe had asked him if he knew any hitmen. Garretson said he saw Jeff Lowe looking on Google Earth for Carole Baskin’s property and “easy ways to kill her”. He was also considering asking Baskin if she wanted to buy the zoo. This led Garretson to call Baskin up with information, which she passed onto the USFWS, for whom Garretson became an informant.

Joe then hired Allen Glover, a zoo employee and friend of Lowe’s, to do the job. He offered $5,000 for the job. Glover later testified that he never made it to Tampa to finish the job. Indeed, he claimed that he had never intended to kill Baskin and just wanted the money. After that, Garretson, still acting as an informant, set up a meeting between Joe and an undercover agent posing as a hitman.

On September 7, 2018, he was arrested and indicted for murder-for-hire as well as charges of animal abuse. He was convicted April 2, 2019, on two counts of murder for hire, eight violations of the Lacey Act (a law that prohibits the trade of illegal and endangered animals), and nine violations of the Endangered Species Act. It was revealed in court that Joe had shot five of his own tigers in the head with a shotgun, according to himself as an act of euthanasia. On January 22, 2020, Joe Exotic was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison. He is currently incarcerated in the FMC Fort Worth and seeking a Presidential pardon from Donald Trump. He is also currently suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for $94 million, claiming false imprisonment, entrapment, and false arrest.

Tiger King is now available to watch on Netflix.

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