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Did ‘Tiger King’ ruin Joe Exotic’s life? ‘Absolutely,’ he says in a call from prison

“Tiger King” made Joe Exotic a pandemic-era star, right? Wrong, says the man himself. Exotic, aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, told TMZ on Friday that the Netflix docuseries ruined his life. And he claims it’s a project he never did. “I didn’t do ‘Tiger King,’” he said in an exclusive interview from federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. “Did ‘Tiger King’ ruin my life? Absolutely.” ...
Joe Exotic in " Tiger King."

“Tiger King” made Joe Exotic a pandemic-era star, right? Wrong, says the man himself.

Exotic, aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, told TMZ on Friday that the Netflix docuseries ruined his life. And he claims it’s a project he never did.

“I didn’t do ‘Tiger King,’” he said in an exclusive

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