Tiger King’s Carole Baskin has come out as bisexual

Tiger King’s Carole Baskin has opened up about her sexuality, admitting that she has always been interested in both men and women.

Tiger King’s Carole Baskin has opened up about her sexuality.

Baskin says she has “always considered” herself to be interested in both men and women.

“I was always very male-oriented in the things I did … I never had any mothering instincts or anything, you know, I never played with dolls,” the controversial Tiger King star told Pink News.

“And so I always thought that there was something off there, that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. But it was during the ’80s that I discovered that through dealing with the LGBT+ community that I realised I had just as equal feelings for women as I did for men.

“I have always considered myself to be bisexual. Even though I’ve never had a wife, I could just as easily have a wife as a husband. As far as the way I feel about us, I think we are all one and I just don’t see us as being different genders or different colours or anything.”

Carole Baskin’s wedding photo. Picture: Netflix

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Meanwhile, the star is being sued for defamation by missing husband Don Lewis’ family.

Baskin, 59, is being sued for not speaking up when Dancing With The Stars judges in the US cracked some jokes about Don Lewis, who is long missing and presumed dead, according to court documents obtained by TMZ.

In the new lawsuit, Lewis family members accuse the Big Cat Rescue boss of being “complicit” when judges name-dropped a viral TikTok video showcasing the unproved conspiracy theory that Baskin killed Mr Lewis – and fed him to their hungry tigers.

Baskin was a contestant on the current season of Dancing With The Stars and the new lawsuit reportedly goes on to claim that Baskin should have intervened when DWTS judge Bruno Tonioli joked that she “didn’t quite kill the paso doble, it was kind of sedated”.

The family also takes issue with Baskin quipping about how she was “ready to kill it next week” in an interview with Good Morning America.

Don Lewis is still missing.

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Jon Phillips, the Lewis family’s lawyer, told Entertainment Tonighton Tuesday that Ms Baskin has been down this legal road before: She reportedly settled a $US50,000 ($A71,000) defamation lawsuit brought by her missing husband’s former executive assistant, Anne McQueen, in 1998.

“These exact same false statements, and additional ones, are being made again in 2020,” Mr Phillips said. “It is malicious. Making matters worse, Howard Baskin (Carole’s current husband) is making these same statements publicly, as is Big Cat Rescue. As such, they have been added as defendants.”

However, Baskin released a statement last Friday, saying it would be a “huge relief” if her missing former husband were to be found thanks to a commercial funded by the Lewis family, which aired during her Dancing With The Stars debut.

“I believe their actions are just a publicity stunt, but if it helps us find Don, then that will be a huge relief,” she wrote in an email to CNN.

The big-cat advocate, famous for her, “Hey, all you cool cats and kittens!” catchphrase, garnered international notoriety when Netflix’s hit docuseries premiered in March.

The true-crime journey into the world of feline wildlife held in captivity and bred for profit told the story of Baskin’s competitor, Joe Exotic, aka 57-year-old Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who is currently serving a 22-year sentence in prison for hiring a hit man to kill her.

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