{"id":1427653,"date":"2022-04-10T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427653"},"modified":"2022-04-10T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T16:14:48","slug":"tiger-king-star-joe-exotic-wants-divorce-from-husband-found-another-lover-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiger-king-star-joe-exotic-wants-divorce-from-husband-found-another-lover-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Tiger King&#039; Star Joe Exotic Wants Divorce from Husband, Found Another Lover in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftiger-king-star-joe-exotic-wants-divorce-from-husband-found-another-lover-in-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Netflix\u2019s <em>Tiger King<\/em> star and zookeeper Joe Exotic \u2014 whose real name is\u00a0Joe Maldonado \u2014 wants a divorce from his husband Dillon Passage so that he can marry a man he met in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Exotic\u2019s lawyer Autumn Blackledge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/04\/02\/joe-exotic-wants-divorce-dillon-marry-new-prison-lover\/\">told<\/a> by TMZ that the <em>Tiger King<\/em> star\u2019s new love interest is a man named John Graham, and their prison romance is the reason why Exotic, 59, recently filed for divorce from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famousbirthdays.com\/people\/dillon-passage.html\">24-year-old<\/a> husband.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGod works in amazing ways,\u201d\u00a0Exotic reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Tiger King<\/em> star and his husband have been estranged for more than a year before Exotic filed for divorce, and Passage reportedly already has a new man in his life, too.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Passage was Exotic\u2019s second husband. The zookeeper married Passage in December 2017, just two months\u00a0after his first husband, Travis Maldonado, died after accidentally shooting himself.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Exotic appears to have his eyes on a third marriage. His attorney told TMZ the <em>Tiger King<\/em> star met\u00a0Graham in February 2021 when they were both behind bars at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) prison in Forth Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Exotic\u2019s prison, lover, however, has since been\u00a0released from custody. Graham was in prison for\u00a0burglary and possession of a firearm. According to court documents obtained by TMZ, he was sentenced in 2012 to more than 12 years in prison but was released on March 15.<\/p>\n<p>As for Exotic, he was\u00a0sentenced to 22 years in prison on two counts of murder-for-hire and 17 wildlife charges.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2020, after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/08\/tdonald-trump-will-take-a-look-at-pardon-for-tiger-king-joe-exotic\/\">asked<\/a> by a\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0reporter if he would pardon Exotic, then-President Donald Trump acknowledged that he did not know anything about the case but said, \u201cI\u2019ll take a look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/18\/donald-trump-tiger-king-joe-exotic-a-strange-guy-quite-a-character\/\">noted<\/a> that he had the chance to explore the <em>Tiger King<\/em> Netflix reality show but ultimately decided not to pardon the zookeeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a whole strange deal going on, I\u2019ll tell you,\u201d Trump said about Exotic. \u201cThat\u2019s a strange guy and a lot of strange people surrounding him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix\u2019s Tiger King star and zookeeper Joe Exotic \u2014 whose real name is\u00a0Joe Maldonado \u2014 wants a divorce from his husband Dillon Passage so that he can marry a man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}