Tiger King star Carole Baskin wins control of rival Joe Exotic’s 16.4-acre Oklahoma zoo

Tiger King star Carole Baskin has been given control of her rival Joe Exotic’s former zoo in Oklahoma following a bombshell judge ruling.

Baskin is owner of Big Cat Rescue and her big competitor is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic, as highlighted in the hit Netflix docuseries Tiger King.

Joe Exotic left the 16.4-acre G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma to his former business partner Jeff Lowe and his mother, but a judge has ruled that his transfer of the zoo land to them a few years ago was fraudulent, it was revealed Monday.

The judge granted Baskin control of the land to help satisfy a $1million judgement that Exotic was ordered to pay her for copyright infringement.  

Joe Exotic left the 16.4-acre G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma to his former business partner Jeff Lowe and his mother, but a judge has ruled that his transfer of the zoo land to them a few years ago was fraudulent, it was revealed Monday. He is currently serving a 22-year jail sentence for animal abuse charges and hiring a hitman to kill Baskin

Exotic is currently in jail after he was convicted of animal abuse and of a murder for hire plot to kill Baskin. He’s currently serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison.

Lowe has 120 days to vacate the premises, including all of his exotic animals residing there, according to a copy of the ruling published by Courthouse News Service.

Big Cat Rescue was also granted ownership of several additional cabins and multiple vehicles on the property as well. 

Baskin’s company Big Cat Rescue sued Exotic’s mother Shirley M. Schreibvogel alleging that the transfer of the Oklahoma zoo was fraudulent in February 2016.

Schreibvogel allegedly later admitted in 2015 that the zoo land was fraudulently handed to her in 2011 to avoid creditors.

‘Schreibvogel later admitted under oath that the zoo land was transferred to her by Joe Maldonado to remove it from the reach of creditors, including BCR, should BCR win its Florida lawsuit,’ the complaint says. 

A view of Exotic’s 16.4-acre G.W. Exotic Animal Memorial Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma above

The massive property was where Exotic held many of his tigers and lions and exotic animals 

An aerial view of the famed Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park that was highlighted in the Netflix docuseries Tiger King above 

The zoo had re-opened just last month and was renamed Tiger King Park following the craze and massive following from the Netflix documentary.

However, according to Tiger King director Eric Goode, it hasn’t been making much money. 

‘No one is going now and there’s no source of income, and that’s been going on for a long time. It’s not something that has just happened because of what’s happening in the world today,’ Goode said to Entertainment Weekly in March. 

But Lowe said he and his wife Lauren aren’t too choked up about losing the property, as they already opened a new park also in Oklahoma.

Jeff Lowe has been running the park for the past few years. Pictured above with wife Lauren

‘We have long anticipated that the judge would eventually undo the 2016 land transfer. We are thankful that he dragged out his decision this long and allowed us time to complete the new Tiger King Park in Thackerville, Oklahoma, behind the World’s largest casino,’ Loew said to TMZ.

‘Considering [Carole] spent approximately 2.5million chasing her 1million judgment, we congratulate her on her new acquisition of 16 acres in rural Oklahoma,’ the couple said.

‘The possibility of human remains being buried on this land should make her feel right at home,’ they added, citing rumors that Baskin could have killer her missing second husband Don Lewis who disappeared without a trace in 1997. 

Exotic perpetuated the theory that Baskin killer her husband and fed his body to one of the big cats on her reserve.