Tiger King: Joe Exotic museum featuring jewelled crown, glass pipe and pill bottles set to open
Items including ‘Exotic Animal Park’ sign and ‘Tiger King’ star’s personal items will be on display
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Your support makes all the difference.Joe Exotic’s prized possessions are being collected for a Tiger King museum exhibition.
Following the success of Netflix’s hugely popular true crime series about rival zookeepers, actor and presenter Zak Bagans is reportedly creating an exhibition containing many of the show’s most memorable items.
Over the weekend, Bagans visited Exotic’s zoo in Oklahoma, which is now owned by Jeff Lowe, to film an episode of his show Ghost Adventures.
However, as reported by TMZ, Bagans left with a number of Exotic’s items, including a penis pump, jewelled crown, pill bottles, clothing, wedding trinkets and a glass pipe belonging to his late husband Travis Maldonado.
Bagans is also said to have taken the original “Exotic Animal Park” sign and a section of an art mural wall featuring a bullet hole from Maldonado’s suicide.
The memorabilia will feature at a Tiger King exhibit at the Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, which is owned by Bagans.
In June, a judge ruled that Exotic must hand over his zoo to nemesis Carole Baskin, with Lowe being given 120 days to vacate the premises and remove all of his exotic animals from the property.
Exotic is currently serving 22 years in prison after being convicted in 2019 of trying to hire a hitman to kill Baskin. He was also convicted of numerous animal abuse charges.
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