Tiger King: Jeff Lowe makes disturbing new claims about Joe Exotic

Zoo owner Jeff Lowe has made a series of unsubstantiated claims about Joe Exotic in an interview that tackled topics including sex fetishes and buried bodies.

Tiger King star Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as “Joe Exotic,” had kinky sex fetishes, current owner Jeff Lowe has claimed in a new interview.

Lowe assumed ownership of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma following Maldonado-Passage’s run in 2019. The Netflix series’ boisterous star is now serving 22 years behind bars for a failed murder-for-hire plot on his rival, Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin.

Jeff Lowe with a sloth. Picture: @tigerkingpark

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Lowe, who also appeared in the Netflix documentary, has claimed in an interview with the Daily Mail that the series only showed a very small fraction of Maldonado-Passage’s questionable behaviour.

He alleged the cat enthusiast is guilty of indulging in a number of eyebrow-raising sex fetishes.

Lowe claimed he stumbled upon “packages and packages of these whips and chains and bondage devices” belonging to Joe Exotic in his attic.

“We also found pictures of stuffed animals where the mouths and ends of the animals had holes cut out in them where they would use them as their own sex toy,” Lowe claimed.

The zoo owner provided the Daily Mail with photos of the stuffed animals, as well as online documentation of Maldonado-Passage soliciting sex in exchange for money with strangers online.

“Joe was embezzling money from the zoo in order to pay all of these men to come have sex with him, he was only making $150 a week at the time. He was using the zoo as his own personal piggy bank,” Lowe alleged.

Joseph "Joe Exotic" Maldonado-Passage. Picture: Netflix US / AFP

A lawyer for Maldonado-Passage did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Lowe claimed he was told by one employee that a co-worker once shot two protesters who attempted to climb the zoo’s fence. He made unsubstantiated claims that Joe allegedly instructed the employee to place the bodies inside large tires and then burn them.

Since landing in prison, Maldonado-Passage has filed a civil lawsuit against Lowe and a number of government agencies seeking $US94 million ($A148 million) for false arrest, false imprisonment, selective enforcement and the death of his mother, among other claims.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as "Joe Exotic". Picture: Santa Rosa County Jail via AP

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