The 'Tiger King' star previously filed for divorce from his husband, Dillon Passage, from jail.
Joseph "Joe Exotic" Maldonado-Passage is moving on in the love department even from behind bars! The 59-year-old Tiger King star filed for divorce from his estranged husband, Dillon Passage, last month, and now ET has learned that he has another man in his life.
Autumn Blackledge, Maldonado-Passage's attorney, tells ET, "Joe's new love interest is a man named John Graham, and the prison romance is the reason Exotic recently filed divorce docs from jail."
The reality star tells ET of the romance, "God works in amazing ways."
In court docs previously obtained by ET, Maldonado-Passage said that his and Passage's marriage is "irretrievably broken." Maldonado-Passage is requesting alimony in the divorce, as well as for Passage to be dropped from his name, the docs show.
Passage's attorneys Chris Kirker and Holly Davis told ET that Passage is just as "eager" to finalize the divorce.
"Dillon is eager to finalize the divorce, contrary to Joe’s version of the story," Passage's attorney's shared. "We started negotiating a divorce settlement in September of 2021 with Joe's previous lawyer, but chose to hit pause on moving forward when Joe announced his cancer diagnosis, out of respect for his health."
Since being behind bars, Maldonado-Passage has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he announced via Instagram in November.
"The September 2021 offer proposed that both parties walk away with what they owned coming into the marriage, in addition to a permanent injunction preventing Joe from contacting Dillon directly, stalking or harassing him," the statement via Passage's attorneys continued. "Those are the terms we offered in September. Joe responded to this offer with, 'It will be a cold day in hell before I sign these papers.' Dillon was not looking for any big payday."
The filing came two months after Maldonado-Passage was resentenced to 21 years in prison by a federal judge in Oklahoma for his 2017 murder-for-hire case involving Carole Baskin.
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