Joe Exotic’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park will not be seeing any animals— exotic or not—anytime soon.
Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue, who took control over the animal park last year, has recently sold it for $140,000. However, the sale came with one very particular stipulation: the property is not to be used ‘to house exotic animals of any kind — or as a zoo, wildlife park or menagerie.’ It’s not just the new owners that must abide by this proviso. The clause is in place for next 100 years!
A second proviso, according to Baskin’s (current and alive) husband, Howard Baskin, the new owners are prohibited from “ever being associated with he who shall not be named.”
Carole Baskin Sells Joe Exotic’s Former Zoo… With a Couple of Provisos
One suggested use for the 16 acre property, once home to over 50 species of animals and 200 big cats, such as tigers, lions, pumas, ligers and tigons is as an RV park. This is due to its location, close to Interstate highway 35.
Baskin, Joe Exotic’s longtime nemesis, was awarded the Oklahoma property as part of the $1 million settlement in her lawsuit, filed in 2011, against the flamboyant ex-big cat owner. Joseph Maldonado-Passage (Exotic’s real name) was sentenced 22 years in prison after being convicted in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin.
The feud between Baskin and Exotic over exotic animals at their private zoos/rescue was an integral storyline in Netflix’s mammoth hit, Tiger King. A second installment to the you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it docuseries has been teased over the last several months.
Meanwhile, a documentary, The Conservation Game, which delves more into the big cat trade (and less on Exotic’s husbands, political ambitions or lip-synching ‘music career’) made its premiere in Los Angeles this weekend.
The Conservation Game, which was fully supported by and features the Baskins, follows a retired cop who makes a bombshell discovery while undercover at an exotic animal auction. Beginning to suspect that America’s top television celebrity conservationists may actually be connected to the exotic pet trade a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues, filled with lies, deception, and coverups.
Big cat rights activist, Baskin believes The Conservation Game is the documentary that “is going to wake people up and actually end the [exotic animal] abuse.”
The documentary is soon to be released in select theatres across the country.
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