Joe Exotic has been behind bars since 2019. His husband Dillon also ended up in jail at the weekend.
Anyone who has seen the bizarre and captivating Netflix documentary "Tiger King – Big Cats and Their Predators" knows: The eccentric zookeeper Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage alias Joe Exotic (57) has been in prison since 2019 because of the alleged assignment to murder. Because of a crime that is nowhere near as serious, his husband Dillon Passage has also been arrested. The man, around 34 years younger, whose wedding to Joe Exotic was also featured in the documentary, was reportedly collected by police officers for drunk driving, according to a report by the US-American website "TMZ".
Accordingly, he was stopped by the officers on Sunday night in Travis County, Texas. When he failed the alcohol test on the spot, he was taken away with handcuffs and put in a cell. When the article appeared, Dillon Passage was still behind bars, it said.
The site got a short statement from the "Tiger King" about the arrest of his husband: "I tried everything to get him away from drinking. I love him," Joe Exotic is quoted as saying. He and Dillon had tied the knot in December 2017 – just weeks after Exotic's previous husband Travis Maldonado accidentally shot himself. This tragedy was also part of the documentation.