Joe Exotic fears husband could be kidnapped
Joe Exotic fears his husband will be kidnapped. The 62-year-old reality star - who is currently serving a 21-year prison sentence after being found guilty of a murder-for-hire plot against rival Carole Baskin - revealed last week he had tied the knot with Jorge Marquez behind bars but he's concerned about saying too much about his new spouse as he doesn't want to make him a high-profile target in his native Mexico. Speaking to 2DayFM's 'Jimmy + Nath Show', he said: "He is going to be deported. I don't want anything happening to him at the border, like the cartel kidnapping him because everybody thinks I am a millionaire." However, the 'Tiger King' star was willing to answer when asked if he and Jorge have consumated their marriage yet. He said: "No... Absolutely not". Before getting married, Joe shared his hopes that making their union official would give his partner a reason not to be deported back to his home country, and that he was ready to follow him to South America if need be. He told RadarOnline.com: "Whether it helps his immigration status or not, we love each other enough to get married. We even got tattooed matching wedding bands already on. "What it would do is, it would assure him, and it would show the court, that he has a little bit of financial stability to stay in America." It's gonna look better for his asylum case to be married. We're just hoping that the prison will allow us to get married and stay in the same prison." He told the outlet that if he can't get help from the government to "keep him here", then "I guess I'm going to Mexico." Announcing their engagement in October last year, Joe described his fiancé as "so amazing" and admitted he wished he had "met him long" before. Joe shared a photo of them together on his X account and wrote: "Meet Jorge Marquez he is 33. He is so amazing and is from Mexico. "Now, the quest of getting married in prison and getting him asylum or we be leaving America when we both get out. Either way, I wish I would have met him long ago." The former 'Tiger King' star then confirmed the engagement to Entertainment Weekly. He told them in a phone call from prison: "We filed our official papers for the marriage license from the prison yesterday, so we're just waiting for an approval. He has picked out December 12 as the date we're hoping to get this approved by." The former zoo keeper seemed hopeful at the time that this relationship will turn out better than his previous marriages to Dillon Passage, who he finalised his divorce from in January 2023, and Travis Maldonado, who died in 2017. He said: "We love each other very much, spend every minute of the day together. "I've been through some s*** in my days. "I buried two husbands, the third one ran off with 2.6 million bucks from Netflix and left my a** here, but Jorge is a very amazing young man."
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