Joe Exotic claims Cincinnati's well-paid quarterback is profiting off his nickname.
asking the quarterback to give him $20,000 in order to hire a lawyer. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, currently is in federal prison in connection with a murder-for-hire plot to kill Carole Baskin, the owner of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla.
“Everyone in the world is exploiting me and and my trademarks while I sit innocent in an American Federal Prison,” the letter says. “I have been the Tiger King before you got out of high school Tiger King is my trademark and intellectual property. My life has been destroyed, my parents have died and I continue to fight cancer and 2 incurable diseases while you all ride fame and attention off my life’s work.
“Since everyone is enjoying the fame of being the Tiger King I’m suffering wrongfully in prison in a cage,” Exotic says in the letter. “How about doing a good deed and helping me raise $20,000 for a down payment to hire attorneys?
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