Coronavirus in Oklahoma: Joe Exotic not exposed to any known COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma jail, officials say

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Oklahoma officials on Thursday disputed widespread reports that Joe Exotic's fellow inmates at the Grady County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19.

"There are no COVID-19 cases in the Grady County Jail, at this time," Grady County District Attorney Jason Hicks told The Oklahoman. "The jail's taking all the precautions that they're supposed to."

Joe Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — was moved last week from the jail in Chickasha to the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth. The 57-year-old former zookeeper and big cat breeder has become a pop-culture phenomenon because of the popularity of a Netflix documentary series about his life and murder-for-hire trial.

"We speak like three to five times every day," his husband, Dillon Passage, 24, told radio show host Andy Cohen Wednesday. "But since he's been moved to this new facility, they are putting him on like COVID-19 isolation because of the previous jail he was at, there were cases. So I have yet to speak to him since he's been moved."