“Tiger King” star Joe Exotic announced he is engaged to a fellow prison inmate.
The 63-year-old Netflix personality, incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, shared the news of his engagement in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Monday.
“Meet Jorge Marquez he is 33. He is so amazing and is from Mexico. Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out. Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago,” Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, wrote alongside a photo of himself with his fiancé.
During a phone call Wednesday from prison with Fox News Digital, Exotic shared details about his romance with Marquez, their plans for a prison wedding and his hopes for their future together.
“From the very day we met, we’ve spent every minute of every day together,” he said. “And it just clicked so fast and so sincere, and it’s amazing.
“I wished I would have met Jorge months ago or a couple of years ago, but God had a plan, I guess.”