{"id":98674,"date":"2024-05-20T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/tiger-king-begs-for-kim-kardashians-help-get-me-out-of-jail\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:08:45","slug":"tiger-king-begs-for-kim-kardashians-help-get-me-out-of-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/tiger-king-begs-for-kim-kardashians-help-get-me-out-of-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger King Begs For Kim Kardashian&#8217;s Help: Get Me Out Of Jail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else have Tiger King&#8217;s Joe Exotic teaming up with Kim Kardashian on their 2024 Bingo card?<\/p>\n<p>No? Oh well, your loss!<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the show <em>Tiger King<\/em> will remember that its star was convicted in 2019 and\u00a0sentenced to 22 years\u00a0in prison on 17\u00a0federal charges of animal abuse and two counts of attempted\u00a0murder-for-hire.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not trying to shoot his shot from behind bars, he&#8217;s working every angle to get out from them. His new ploy? Enlist the help of Kim Kardashian!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kim Kardashian attends an event to discuss criminal justice reform with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2024. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> ((Photo by Jim WATSON \/ AFP))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-joe-exotic-begs-kim-kardashian-for-legal-help\">Joe Exotic Begs Kim Kardashian For Legal Help<\/h2>\n<p>On a perfectly quiet Monday morning in May, Kendall Jenner posted a topless selfie on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7LKaXUt6It\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. You know, nothing out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>But while the photo may have been par for the course, her comments section became very interesting. That&#8217;s because Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix documentary <em>Tiger King,<\/em> dropped in to ask for a favor. <\/p>\n<p>A favor from Kendall as well as her sister, Kim Kardashian. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have your sister reach out please,&#8221; Joe wrote in Kendall&#8217;s comments. &#8220;I want to show her the videos of them all admitting to perjury. She helps those wrongfully incarcerated right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s he talking about, you might ask? Well, he explains futher:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you go to JoeExoticTV.net there\u2019s 600 unseen video files uploaded they gave my attorneys of them secretly recording each other talking about how they set me up and admitting they lied. Courts have it all. The process is slow,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kimkardashian\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kimkardashian<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019m innocent and in prison, help me out. This isn\u2019t right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_0085-JEPA_R-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-500281\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tiger King&#8217;s Joe Exotic &#8211; aka Joseph Allen Maldonado &#8211; before he was sent to prison for animal cruelty and plotting murder. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Netflix)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-kim-s-ignoring-his-calls\">Kim&#8217;s Ignoring His Calls<\/h2>\n<p>While this is certainly Joe&#8217;s latest attempt to enlist Kim&#8217;s help, it is certainly NOT his first. For the better part of four years, he has been posting on the Kardashian family social channels, pleading with someone to bring his case to Kim. <\/p>\n<p>When Kourtney Kardashian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C2qa2vIPUeq\/c\/18071950828460462\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared a picture<\/a>\u00a0of her and new son Rocky on Sunday, January 28, the\u00a0<em>Tiger King<\/em>\u00a0star was right there in the comment section. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwwww cute, also please have your sister help me get out of this hell hole,&#8221; Joe wrote. <\/p>\n<p>But hitting up family members has been only one of Joe&#8217;s ploys to get Kim&#8217;s attention. After just about one year in prison, Joe wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2020\/12\/joe-exotic-to-kim-kardashian-tell-trump-to-let-me-out-of-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open letter to Kim <\/a>that appeared in <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am writing you this letter not as Joe Exotic but as the person Joseph Maldonado-Passage, asking you to please help me by just taking 10 minutes out of your life and placing a call to President Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you may recall,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2018\/09\/kim-kardashian-takes-up-new-cause-meets-again-with-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kim worked with Trump<\/a>\u00a0to secure presidential pardons for several non-violent drug offenders during his term.<\/p>\n<p>Joe asks Kim to tell Donnie &#8220;to look at my 257 page pardon it\u2019s all the evidence I\u2019m innocent and ask him to sign my pardon so I can return home to [my husband] Dillon [Passage] and my father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"713\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1854632189-713x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-500282\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kim Kardashian attends the Fontainebleau Las Vegas Star-Studded Grand Opening Celebration on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> ((Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images for Fontainebleau Las Vegas))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-why-would-kim-help-the-tiger-king-leave-jail\">Why Would Kim Help The Tiger King Leave Jail?<\/h2>\n<p>Kim Kardashian first revealed her legal aspirations in 2019 when she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwSBRu5nmST\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=820e9a98-3a09-4038-8942-e96d17af9fd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted on her Instagram<\/a>\u00a0that she was prepping to take the California bar exam.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, while she has made some strides in her lawyer journey, passing the &#8220;baby bar&#8221; last year (after 4 tries) and successfully working to commute the sentence of Julius Jones, who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that she plans to take the &#8220;big&#8221; bar exam in early 2025, but it&#8217;s also reported that Kim may be putting her legal aspirations on hold for now. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year she slowly realized how tedious it was and how never-ending the study was,\u201d an insider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/entertainment\/10469624\/kim-kardashian-lawyer-baby-bar-exam-studying-paused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told The Sun<\/a>\u00a0in a report. \u201cShe can\u2019t drop it without looking bad, looking like she couldn\u2019t pass it after all the work and all of her talk about how passionate she was about pushing for prison reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So why step away? Well, life as a mother, reality star, and entrepreneur seems to be taking up much of her time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s been too busy because her various business ventures have rocketed,\u201d the insider claimed. \u201cBetween the new PE SKKY partnership which is on a huge acquisition spree, and her own Skims businesses \u2013 they all need her right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2024\/05\/kim-kardashian-joe-exotic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger King Begs For Kim Kardashian&#8217;s Help: Get Me Out Of Jail!<\/a> was originally published on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Gossip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urls.grow.me\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlaG9sbHl3b29kZ29zc2lwLmNvbS8yMDI0LzA1L2tpbS1rYXJkYXNoaWFuLWpvZS1leG90aWMv\/e\/*%7CEMAIL%7C*\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else have Tiger King&#8217;s Joe Exotic teaming up with Kim Kardashian on their 2024 Bingo card? No? Oh well, your loss! Fans of the show Tiger King will remember that its star was convicted in 2019 and\u00a0sentenced to 22 years\u00a0in prison on 17\u00a0federal charges of animal abuse and two counts of attempted\u00a0murder-for-hire. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}