Overview

• Joe Exotic, 62, revealed on X that he married fellow inmate Jorge Flores Maldonado, 33, at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, where both are incarcerated.
• The marriage, announced on April 21, 2025, follows their engagement in October 2024, which Exotic also shared on social media.
• Jorge Flores Maldonado, a Mexican national, is serving time for immigration-related offenses, and the union is intended to bolster his asylum application in the U.S.
• This marks Exotic's third marriage, following his previous unions with Travis Maldonado, who died in 2017, and Dillon Passage, from whom he divorced in 2023.
• Exotic, serving a 21-year sentence for a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin, continues to maintain his innocence and seek clemency while battling cancer in prison.