If you're wondering how much Joe Exotic made from Tiger King, the hit Netflix documentary covering Maldonado-Passage's clash with big-cat conservationist Carole Baskin, the answer seems to be zero.
Exotic was sentenced to serve more than 20 years in prison, and despite repeated attempts to get a presidential pardon or a reduced sentence, there's been no indication of him getting released anytime soon.
Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado, was found guilty in 2019 on several charges, including a murder-for-hire plot. He was sentenced to serve 22 years in federal prison. In Jan. 2022, a judge resentenced Maldonado to 21 years, reducing the original sentence by just a year.
She still owns Big Cat Rescue and is working hard to "provide the best home we can for the cats in our care, end abuse of big cats in captivity, and prevent extinction of big cats in the wild," according to her website.
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Before Joe was chilling full-time at the G. W. Zoo (and then chilling full-time in jail), he set up a mobile petting zoo that toured malls across the country. And he made a ton of money along the way.
Tiger King also revealed that Joe paid his employees only $150 a week and would use expired store products and leftover animal carcasses from the street as food for his animals, which put his cost for supplies at only around $3,000 a year, according to InTouch.
We got the paperwork showing Big Cat Rescue sold the property formerly known as Joe Exotic's G.W. Zoo for $140k in June to Francisco and Nelly Vazquez.
After the Netflix series became an unlikely phenomenon, Jeff Lowe tried to exploit the zoo's newfound fame, reopening the zoo as 'Tiger King Park' in May 2020. But within weeks an Oklahoma judge handed Baskin, 60, control of GW Zoo altogether. She vowed never to reopen it or any other tourist site on the complex.
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Norman originally told Tucker Carlson in an interview taped at LIV Golf's event at Trump Bedminster that Woods' initial offer was “in the neighborhood of $700-800 million” in LIV's early days. “That number was out there before I became CEO, and that number's been out there, yes,” Norman said.
It was a five-year agreement, roughly worth $100 million. The third deal was signed in 2006 for seven years, followed by the most recent deal, which is double the size of his second deal. It has been reported that his current Nike contract is $200 million.
Unfortunately for Nike, its most notable signature athlete is wearing another company's shoes. For the second consecutive year, Woods is wearing FootJoy golf shoes.
The rationale is to make money, but according to experts, the prices of these goods have fallen so rapidly in recent times that it is a loss-making trade for the panicked sellers.
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Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.
NBA All-Star Lebron James has a net worth of $1 billion, according to Forbes. James is currently the NBA's highest-paid active player, earning over $431 million playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, and Los Angeles Lakers.
But on the financial scoreboard, MJ is still the clear champ—and the gap is growing. Since he was drafted in 1984, Jordan has earned an estimated $3.3 billion when adjusted for inflation, more than any other athlete in the history of sports; the tally is $2.37 billion unadjusted.
Tiger Beer is a Singaporean brand of beer first launched in 1932. It is currently produced by Heineken Asia Pacific, formerly known as Asia Pacific Breweries. The company is a joint-venture between Heineken N.V. and Singaporean multinational food and beverage company Fraser and Neave.
The zoo has been closed to visitors since October 2020, and today, a court decision permanently bans the zoo's owners, Jeff and Lauren Lowe, from exhibiting animals to the public in a facility or online.