Tiger King star Joe Unique has married his fellow inmate Jorge Marquez.
Unique shared an image of the couple on X in tuxedos underneath a trellis of flowers, after asserting their engagement final yr. It’s unclear at this stage whether or not the picture is real or AI-generated.
“By no means been extra happy with somebody. Meet my husband, Jorge Flores Maldonado,” he wrote.
A consultant for the Federal Bureau of Prisons Workplace of Public Affairs informed Leisure Weekly that “we don’t touch upon the circumstances of confinement for any particular person in our custody,” and couldn’t confirm that Unique and Flores married in jail.
By no means been extra happy with somebody.
Meet my husband Jorge Flores Maldonado pic.twitter.com/0Ee6lfxBSR— Joe Unique (@joe_exotic) April 22, 2025
The previous zoo proprietor, who’s presently serving a 21-year sentence on the Federal Medical Heart in Fort Price, Texas, struck up a relationship with Marquez in jail.
“Meet Jorge Marquez he’s 33. He’s so superb and is from Mexico,” Unique wrote on the time.
“Now, the search of getting married in jail and getting him asylum or we be leaving America after we each get out. Both means, I want I’d have met him way back.”
It was beforehand reported that Marquez is presently serving time for immigration-related points.
In one other submit on the time, Unique additionally requested for the pair to be pardoned from jail. “Yep. Took me 61 years to search out him now I received to persuade [Donald] Trump to let me hold him in America,” he wrote.
Earlier this week, Unique, who was identified with most cancers again in 2021, additionally took to Instagram to foyer for a pardon but once more.
“He has gotten me by a lot preventing most cancers underneath these circumstances. All I pray to God for is Trump woll enable me to get pleasure from a bit life exterior with him earlier than it’s too late.
I like you Jorge you’re my life,” he wrote.
That is Unique’s third jail engagement in three years. In 2022, he started a relationship with one other inmate named John Graham, however issues quickly ended after Graham was launched from jail. In the identical yr, Unique began a relationship with Seth Posey, however in addition they cut up shortly after changing into engaged.
Unique has been married 5 occasions, most lately to Dillon Passage, who featured in Netflix‘s Tiger King. Passage requested a divorce in 2021.
Unique was sentenced to 21 years in jail in 2019 for 19 counts of wildlife crimes and two counts of hiring hitmen to kill animal rights activist Carol Baskin.