Tiger King star Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, has been placed in self-isolation in a Texas prison after multiple inmates tested positive for COVID-19.
Exotic is currently in prison serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted of hiring a hitman to murder Carole Baskin. Tiger King creators Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin told The Hollywood Reporter that Exotic is “incarcerated and right now he’s been put into isolation for COVID-19, so he actually is not available” to speak to them at the moment. “He’s been cut off from phones, but Joe is somebody who has always wanted to be a star, and so he’s very excited for this to have captured people’s attention the way it did,” Chaiklin revealed about Exotic’s recent