Joe Exotic Just Filed for Divorce From Dillon Passage, Who Already Has a New Man

Apr. 1 2022, Updated 5:19 p.m. ET

Netflix viewers were captivated by way of the real-life characters in the Tiger King docuseries. The first season adopted former zookeeper Joe Exotic (real title: Joseph Maldonado-Passage) as he put the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (G.W. Zoo) and its large cats on the map. But unfortunately, things went downhill speedy.

In 2019, Joe was once convicted and sentenced to 21 years in jail for attempting a murder-for-hire plot to kill animals rights activist Carole Baskin.

At the time of his conviction, he had lately gotten married to his fifth husband, Dillon Passage. Read on to find out where Joe and Dillon's dating stands nowadays and what Dillon has been as much as since Joe used to be positioned in the back of bars.

Joe Exotic filed for divorce from Dillon Passage in March 2022.

On March 31, 2022, Joe submitted forms to a Florida courthouse to finish his and Dillon's four-year marriage. In court docket documents acquired via Us Weekly, Joe claimed that he wanted a dissolution in their marriage as their union had develop into “irretrievably broken."

Furthermore, Joe is asking the court to restore his former name back to Joseph Allen Maldonado and for his estranged husband to pay his legal fees.

Joe's decision to file for divorce comes one year after he and Dillion announced that they were separating.

“Dillon thinks having to sleep alone and not have me out there is so rough and hard to deal with to the point he has to leave me,” Joe wrote on Instagram at the time. He continued: "Now I don’t even have a home.”

The former couple married in December 2017, simply two months after Joe's former husband, Travis Maldonado, accidentally shot himself within the head and died.

'Tiger King' megastar Dillon Passage up to now referred to Joe Exotic as a "shining light."

Although it's the finish of the road for Joe and Dillon, the 26-year-old up to now instructed Entertainment Tonight that Joe had helped him deal with his despair and drug addiction throughout their relationship.

"Joe brought me out of my depression and made me feel like I was wanted. He was like the shining light that kept me out of that," he informed the hole in April 2020.

Dillion persisted: "At first it was more like a companionship, but being around him as much as I was and seeing his personality and how he treated me and how he treated his animals, I really grew to love Joe."

But in the same interview, Dillon touched on the possibility of finding happiness in some other dating.

"Right now, I don't feel the need to fill that empty void, [but] if I do ever meet somebody that I feel is going to be very important to me, then Joe would be perfectly fine ... Well, maybe not perfectly fine, but he would support my decision to be happy again," Dillon stated.

In July 2021, Dillon shared his first picture on Instagram with new beau, John. They are still lately in combination, which most likely influenced Joe's decision to report for divorce.

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