Netflix has just released their latest true crime series, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, all about Joe Exotic, the gun-toting owner of the huge GW Zoo in Oklahoma, a roadside facility housing over 1,200 exotic animals.

The series follows the wild twists and turns throughout Joe's life running the zoo before revealing his arrest as a result of a murder for hire plot against an animal rights activist named Carole Baskin. If you need any more convincing, you can watch the Tiger King trailer here.

Joe was an outspoken polygamist and marries several times throughout the series, with two of those marriages ending in tragic deaths. Here are all of Joe's husbands, and where they are now.

Brian Rhyne, 1986

In the early eighties Joe was working as a security guard in Texas at a gay cowboy bar called the Round-up Saloon, and met his first husband, 19-year old Brian Rhyne. They moved into a trailer together in a Texan city called Arlington, and according to a NY Magazine profile on Joe, "On Saturdays, they would snort pink-tinged meth and go out to the bars. Sundays, they lazed around at home and watched Westerns on TV. Joe and Brian eventually got married at the Round-up."

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But in 2001, Brian died of complications related to HIV. Reportedly, Joe was helping Brian onto a pickup truck so that he could die peacefully at home, when Brian passed away. According to NY, "Joe screamed loud enough to make your ears ring."

J. C. Hartpence

Shortly after Brian's death, Joe met a 20-something events producer called J.C. Hartpence. People around the pair said the relationship was turbulent. Hartpence reportedly once held a gun against Joe's head during a drunken argument, causing the relationship to break down.

Hartpence is now serving life in prison for a murder he committed years after splitting from Joe Exotic.

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John Finlay, 2014

In 2003, a few months after graduating from High School John Finlay began working for Joe Exotic at the zoo and helping out with his roadshows, and the pair entered into a relationship. Joe even paid for John to get a tattoo reading "PRIVATELY OWNED BY JOE EXOTIC," just above his pelvis. By 2014 the pair were married in a three-way ceremony (with Travis Moldanado), in a hall across the street from the zoo.

But not long after Texas Monthly reports that Finlay began to want out of the relationship, "Finlay felt that Joe had become manipulative and controlling... On August 18, 2014, Finlay attacked Joe in the back parking lot. He was arrested and charged with assault and battery."

Eventually, Finlay married and had a child with a woman who worked in the zoo, and left the facility.

John Finlay in 2016 Joe Gone Wild TV YouTube

Travis Michael Moldanado, 2014

Joe met Travis in 2013, after one of Joe's employees suggested working with animals at the zoo might be good for Travis, who had struggled with addiction to methamphetamine. Joe married Travis and John in a three-way ceremony shortly after Travis came to work at the zoo.

In 2017, Travis was killed after accidentally shooting himself in an office of the zoo's gift shop. According to witnesses, Travis removed the magazine from his pistol to show that the gun wouldn't fire without the magazine, not knowing that there was a bullet in the chamber, leading to Travis's death.



Travis, Joe and John at their wedding in 2014 Tiger King Netflix

Dillon Passage, 2017

Shortly after Travis's death Joe met 19-year old Dillon online. According to NY, Dillon had been sleeping on an air mattress at his cousin's house, and within days of meeting had moved in with Joe, and just two months after Travis's death the pair had married. After Joe leaving the zoo, Joe and Dillon ended up in Gulf Breeze, Florida where they stayed for two years before Joe's arrest in 2018. The pair are reportedly still together.

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