Joe Exotic Tells Carole Baskin 'Enough Is Enough' in Jailhouse Interview
11.02.2022 - 19:51
/ etonline.com
Carole Baskin. In a jailhouse interview with ABC News, the star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, spoke out against his longtime rival. «I am in prison and she can't leave me alone,» Maldonado-Passage told Juju Chang, referencing his 21-year sentence for the 2017 murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin. "… Carole, go find another reason to live other than Joe Exotic.
Because enough is enough.«As for the reason he's in jail, Maldonado-Passage denied that he paid two people, including an undercover FBI agent, $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to Florida to kill Baskin. He additionally denied that he abused animals in his care.»Absolutely not," he said, denying his participation in the murder-for-hire plot.
«How can you even expect somebody to go from Oklahoma to Florida to scope her out, however long that would take, and back on $3,000? That is absurd.»Maldonado-Passage also spoke about his health, after revealing in November that he'd been diagnosed with an «aggressive» prostate cancer, and suffering from COVID-19 earlier this month,«I'm losing weight real bad and the sores in my mouth are unbearable to live with all the time. In the three and a half years I've been in custody, I've been taken to the hospital 43 times,» he said.
«I have little to no immune system and then they have to give me blood infusions every four weeks. I don't see me walking out of here alive.»The conditions in jail, he claimed, are not helping matters.«You have no windows.
It's a concrete room with no enrichment and no TV, no radio, no nothing,» Maldonado-Passage said. «You cannot in America put a monkey in a cage, according to the Animal Welfare Act, and treat them like this.»Maldonado-Passage expressed similar concerns when ET spoke to him
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