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# Attention _Tiger King_ Fans: Judge Gives Carole Baskin Control of Joe Exotic’s Former Zoo

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## Melissa Locker


Jun 2, 2020 3:26 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jun 2, 2020 3:26 PM UTC

Hey all you cool cats and kittens, there’s a new chapter in the Joe Exotic saga—Carole Baskin is now set to take over Joe’s zoo.

As fans of the Netflix docuseries [_Tiger King_](https://time.com/5810608/tiger-king-memes/) may recall, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as [Joe Exotic](https://time.com/5813053/tiger-king-netflix-where-are-they-now/), was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison when he was convicted on two counts of murder-for-hire and 17 wildlife charges, including killing five tigers.

Their complicated association arose as Baskin, owner of the Big Cat Rescue organization, repeatedly called out [Maldonado-Passage](https://time.com/5807284/tiger-king-netflix-true-story/) for his alleged mistreatment of tiger cubs and the abuse of the animals kept at his G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Exotic retaliated with a string of threatening videos targeting her with rumors, which she consistently denied.

As their lawsuits continued and Maldonado-Passage’s debts mounted after losing a case over the use of Big Cat Rescue’s trademark, he gave the park to his mother, Shirley M. Schreibvogel, while Maldonado-Passage’s partner of sorts, Jeff Lowe, operated it.

A legal team representing Baskin and Big Cat Rescue filed a complaint back in February 2016, alleging that the transfer of the Oklahoma zoo property was fraudulent, undertaken only as a means of keeping it out of the reach of creditors. On Monday, a federal judge determined that the property was fraudulently transferred to Maldonado-Passage’s mother, Fox 25, an Oklahoma [Fox news affiliate, reported Monday](https://okcfox.com/news/local/tiger-king-nemesis-wins-control-of-former-zoo-in-wynnewood).

The determination means that as Maldonado-Passage is incarcerated, Baskin and her 28-year old animal rescue group, have been granted control of his former Oklahoma zoo, a development sure to interest [_Tiger King_ fans](https://time.com/5819996/tiger-king-and-i-joel-mchale-netflix/). Now, Lowe has 120 days to vacate the premises, and find a new home for of his animals currently residing there, according to a copy of the ruling [published](https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/big-cat-ruling.pdf) by the Courthouse News Service [via _People_](https://people.com/tv/tiger-king-carole-baskin-granted-control-joe-exotic-former-zoo-jeff-lowe-has-120-days-vacate-property/).


Maldonado-Passage, is currently being held at a Dallas-Fort Worth medical center after he was exposed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Fox 25 reported.

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