Speaking of blackmail, this flash in the pan streaming reality star is paying way more to a guy to keep a secret than she was prior to the airing of the show.

I’m surprised he hasn’t ended up dead.

Carol Baskin

Tiger King

Carole Baskin sells Joe Exotic’s former zoo, animals banned for 100 years

Joe Exotic’s former animal playground will be a zoo no more.

His longtime enemy, Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue, has sold the Oklahoma property and one of the provisions is that the land can’t be used as a zoo for 100 years, TMZ reported Saturday.

Big Cat Rescue was awarded control over the animal park in Wynnewood by a judge in 2020, part of the settlement in her long-standing trademark lawsuit against the flamboyant former zookeeper, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage.

The lawsuit was filed in 2011, long before “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” became the No. 1 show on Netflix and propelled both Maldonado-Passage and Baskin to freakish stardom.

Baskin registered the trademark for Big Cat Rescue in 2005. Maldonado-Passage used the similar name Big Cat Rescue Entertainment and allegedly boasted on social media that he purposely used the name to “ruin” Baskin and her non-profit company.

Maldonado-Passage’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park was purchased for $140,000 in June by Francisco and Nelly Vazquez, according to the TMZ report.

The last remaining animals at the zoo, which once housed as many as 1,400 big cats, were turned over to the Justice Department earlier this month. – Source


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