Tiger King’s Dillon Passage and Jeff Lowe had a brawl in the zoo’s parking lot (Picture: Netflix)

Tiger King shocked us with another bombshell when John Reinke revealed in the new Netflix episode that Dillon Passage and Jeff Lowe had a ’15 minute fight’ in the zoo’s parking lot.

The head zookeeper casually disclosed the scuffle prompted him to leave the exotic animal park for good and we caught up with Dillon, who’s married to Joe Exotic, to find out exactly just what went down.

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, the star claimed that the incident took place after Jeff hurled – what he understood as –a homophobic insult at him.

‘Jeff would always walk around the park just belittling absolutely everybody and really didn’t have a care in the world,’ Dillon alleged.




‘So, one day I was just getting water for my camel and, you know, and he makes a comment and so that’s how that started.’

Dillon, who’s married to Joe Exotic, claims his fight was with Jeff was his response to a ‘homophobic’ insult (Picture: Instagram)

Dillon continued: ‘I kept to myself, being at the zoo because Jeff and Lauren weren’t the best of people and they didn’t get along with Joe [Exotic], and so I tried to keep my distance, but they just have really big mouths and will say whatever they think because they think they can get away with it.

‘They may have had the park, but they didn’t own me, I didn’t work at the park.’

Dillon stated that he’s had no contact with Jeff and hopes to keep it that way.

‘I have no desire to have any relationship with Jeff, he’s just not the kind of people I like to be around,’ he told us.

Dillon also disclosed that his hubby Joe is planning his return to showbiz while behind bars after Netflix documentary Tiger King threw him into the spotlight and turned him into a global superstar.

The former zoo owner, who’s currently serving 22 years for animal abuse charges and conspiring to kill Carole Baskin, is working with broadcasters in the United States in a bid to get his own radio show on the airwaves.

‘This radio station here in the US wants him to have his own radio show from inside the prison,’ Dillon said. ‘So we’ll see what happens with that. It’s kind of mind-blowing.’

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Jeff Lowe for comment.

Tiger King is available to stream on Netflix.

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