Tiger King star Joe Unique has married his fellow inmate Jorge Marquez.
Unique shared an image of the couple on X in tuxedos below a trellis of flowers, after saying their engagement final 12 months. 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 instructed Leisure Weekly that “we don’t touch upon the situations 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 at the moment serving a 21-year sentence on the Federal Medical Middle 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 hunt of getting married in jail and getting him asylum or we be leaving America after we each get out. Both approach, I want I might have met him way back.”
It was beforehand reported that Marquez is at the moment 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 bought to persuade [Donald] Trump to let me preserve him in America,” he wrote.
Earlier this week, Unique, who was recognized with most cancers again in 2021, additionally took to Instagram to foyer for a pardon but once more.
“He has gotten me via a lot preventing most cancers below these situations. All I pray to God for is Trump woll enable me to get pleasure from a bit life outdoors with him earlier than it’s too late.
I really like you Jorge you might be 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 12 months, Unique began a relationship with Seth Posey, however in addition they cut up shortly after turning into engaged.
Unique has been married 5 instances, most just 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.
