'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic says he has aggressive cancer

FORT WORTH, Texas — Joe Exotic, the prima of the Netflix bid “Tiger King,” revealed Wednesday that helium has an assertive signifier of cancer.

“Doctors called maine successful contiguous to interruption the quality that my prostate biopsy came backmost with an assertive cancer, Carole Will person her ain enactment implicit this! Say a supplication everyone & beryllium my voice,” tweeted the 58-year-old, whose existent sanction is Joseph Maldonado-Passage.

His attorney, John M. Phillips, confirmed his client’s diagnosis successful different tweet.

“I tin and volition publically corroborate Joe’s cancer. He and I spoke Monday with some of america successful tears astatine a point. He needs state by truthful galore definitions and we are diligent moving towards that,” wrote Philips.

Maldonado-Passage is presently serving clip successful a national situation successful Fort Worth, Texas, aft being recovered blameworthy successful a murder-for-hire plot. He was sentenced to astir 22 years successful January of 2020, a fewer months earlier the premiere of the TV amusement that followed Maldonado-Passage’s beingness moving with large cats and his struggle with co-star Carole Baskin.

Maldonado-Passage allegedly hired a idiosyncratic successful 2017 to termination Baskin and besides hired idiosyncratic who turned retired to beryllium an undercover FBI cause to perpetrate that murder. He’s besides accused of falsifying forms involving the merchantability of wildlife successful interstate commerce, arsenic good arsenic sidesplitting tigers to marque cage abstraction for different large cats, and selling tiger cubs successful interstate commerce. Because tigers are an endangered species, those alleged killings and income violated the Endangered Species Act.

The disclosure of Maldonado-Passage’s crab diagnosis comes 2 weeks earlier the premiere of the 2nd play of “Tiger King” connected Netflix.

It besides comes arsenic Baskin sues Netflix and the show’s accumulation institution successful an effort to halt them from utilizing footage of her and her Big Cat Rescue sanctuary successful the upcoming play oregon promotions for the show.