'Tiger King' Joe Exotic announces engagement in prison

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — TheTiger King has found love again.

Joe Exotic, 61, announced on X Monday night that he's engaged to 33-year-old Jorge Marquez from Mexico.

He said they're on a quest to get married in prison and either get Marquez asylum or leave America when they both get out.

Exotic said in the post, "Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago."

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Exotic is serving 21 years for a murder-for-hire plot,violating the Endangered Species Act, and violating the Lacey Act: False labeling of wildlife.

He was the focus of a Netflix documentary released in 2020 that followed the story of his zoo in Oklahoma and the murder-for-hire plot.