‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic misses out on Trump pardon, remains in captivity
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
Joe Exotic, who gave viewers a look at the business of big cats in "Tiger King," will not benefit from Trump's end-of-term clemency. Netflix
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Lawyers for “Tiger King” Joe Exotic were so confident that he would be pardoned by President Donald Trump that they had a limousine on standby.
But it was all for naught as Trump granted clemency to 143 people, and the list did not include the star of the Netflix documentary series.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Exotic, 57, whose real name is Joe Maldonado-Passage, became a breakout star thanks to the popularity of the eight-part series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”