Joe Unique seems to be marking the beginning of a brand new chapter whereas remaining behind bars.
The “Tiger King” star, whose actual title is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, introduced late Monday on social media that he and Jorge Flores, a fellow jail inmate, had gotten married.
“Never been more proud of someone,” Unique wrote on X, previously Twitter, alongside a photograph of him and Flores in matching tuxedos. “Meet my husband Jorge Flores Maldonado.”
The authenticity of the picture has not been verified. Equally, a consultant for the Federal Bureau of Prisons Workplace of Public Affairs was unable to verify that Unique and Flores had tied the knot, telling Entertainment Weekly in an announcement: “We do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any individual in our custody.”
A former zookeeper, Unique is serving a 21-year sentence for trying to rent successful man to homicide rival Carole Baskin along with quite a few a number of federal wildlife violations. He’s at the moment incarcerated on the Federal Medical Heart in Fort Value, Texas, the place he’s being handled for prostate most cancers.
Unique’s case was the topic of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary sequence “Tiger King,” which captivated viewers through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He broke the information of his engagement on X in October of final 12 months.
“Meet Jorge Marquez he is 33. He is so amazing and is from Mexico,” he wrote on the time. “Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out.”
He went on to notice: “Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago.”
In an interview with EW shortly after getting engaged, Unique described Flores as “a very amazing young man,” including, “We love each other very much, spend every minute of the day together.”
Unique was beforehand married to Travis Maldonado, who died in 2017 at age 23. From 2017 to 2023, he was married to Dillon Passage, who was featured prominently in “Tiger King.”
In current months, Unique has been actively looking for a pardon from President Donald Trump by way of an lawyer.
After Trump pardoned over 1,500 defendants charged within the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol shortly after being sworn into workplace for a second time period, Unique bemoaned, “You forgot me … again.”
“If I was a crack dealer, maybe if I broke in the capital or even have been related to the Bidens. I might have gotten some relief on being in prison innocent,” Unique, who has expressed his help for Trump previously, wrote on Instagram. “Hell the guy who killed 2 FBI Agents even hot a pardon today. I can’t even get a new trial based on admitted perjury testimony.”
