Jeff Lowe is best remembered on the Netflix mega hit Tiger King as the man with the money who not only took over Joe Exotic’s zoo, but was instrumental in the sting operation against the larger than life, felonious lip-synching, presidential-campaigning big cat owner.
Last week, Lowe was airlifted to a Texas hospital after being found unresponsive in a casino in Oklahoma by his wife Lauren. “I thought he was dying in my arms,” Lauren told TMZ.
EMTs determined Lowe had suffered a stroke and while Lauren sang the medical team’s praises , saying the medical staff worked miracles to save her husband and limit the damaging effects of the stroke, doctors have, so far, been unable to determine the cause.
Tiger King Star, Jeff Lowe Suffers Stroke in Casino After Possible Poisoning!
The Lowes, however, have their own suspicions. And they are as sensational as the docu-series that made the couple famous.
The Lowes explain how a “mystery man” approached the pair while they were on a dinner date earlier in the evening. Lauren recalled how the man claimed he knew the twosome and “even knew our favorite drink orders.”
Lauren also remembered trying Jeff’s drink and shortly afterwards started “feeling off.” Jeff fell asleep on the ride back to the casino where the couple were staying and “acted odd” when they got to the room.
Details of the rest of the night are fuzzy as the next Lauren speaks of is Jeff turning “green and blue” when she ‘found him’ at around 3 am. The zoo owner was not breathing and his heart stopped. While Jeff’s blood and urine tests came back negative for commonly abused drugs, Lauren suggests the suspicious man might have used something “more exotic”. More…Joe Exotic?
The suspicions have not been reported to police yet as the couple are hoping to “connect the dots” on what happened that fateful night first.
After 3 days in hospital, Lowe is back at home recovering. The zoo keeper, who is in the midst of a law suit which was filed against him by the Department of Justice, alleging “recurring inhumane treatment and improper handling” of tigers and lions is said to still have a long road to get back to normal and is still having difficulty speaking.
Surely this scary scenario will become fodder for the producers of the slated Tiger King sequel!
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