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Mar 28, 2020 Jeff Lowe’s Zoo: Jeff Lowe’s new zoo is called ‘The Oklahoma Zoo’. Notably, this is not to be confused with the Oklahoma City Zoo. Jeff’s new zoo is at Thackerville, Oklahoma, behind the Winstar Casino. A new zoo is coming to love county, just behind the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, that promises an interactive exotic experience for all its guests. But a familiar face is behind the creation. The zoo will be located in Thackerville, Oklahoma behind the Winstar Casino, per the zoo’s website. Source: Read Full Article. Post navigation « Marvel's 'Doctor Strange 2' and 'The Eternals' Are Still Forging on With Remote Production.
- Jeff Lowe is one of the people featured in Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries.
- He took over ownership of the Greater Wynnewood Zoo from Joe Exotic.
- Now, he and wife Lauren are opening a new zoo, the Oklahoma Zoo, in Thackerville.
Stark runs a non-profit called Wildlife in Need, an exotic animal refuge in Indiana. He's been friends for years with Jeff Lowe, the owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Mar 21, 2020 The GW Zoo, which has a big focus in Netflix’s new series Tiger King, is now called the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park and it’s still going strong under new ownership.The zoo, formerly.
If you’ve watched the new Netflix true crime docuseries, Tiger King, you know that big cat owner and self-proclaimed “Tiger King” Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, ended up in prison after being convicted on a murder-for-hire charge and other animal abuse charges.
His Oklahoma zoo, the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (also referred to as the G.W. Zoo in Tiger King) is now co-owned by husband and wife team Jeff Lowe and Lauren Lowe, who reopened the park in the middle of 2018.
As shown in the doc, Jeff offered to put the park in his name when Joe’s legal trouble’s started, and Joe agreed. After Joe was sentenced to jail for 22 years, Jeff and Lauren took over full ownership of the park.
Jeff and Lauren don’t shy away from the fact that, yeah, this zoo doesn’t have the best reputation. But the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park’s official Facebook page suggests that the couple helped take Joe down and implies that the animals are doing better than ever. “Come see how healthy and happy all the animals are, now that the horrible abuser rots in Federal Prison,” one of the company’s Facebook posts shared on March 11, 2020 says, alongside a photo of a tiger that reads, “Meet the couple who risked it all to take down the Tiger King when nobody else could.”
The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park
But who is Jeff Lowe from Tiger King and where is he now?
Here’s everything you need to know about him and how he’s changed the G.W. Zoo since Joe’s arrest.
He knew Joe Exotic years before the arrest happened.
Jeff met Joe back in 2015, when he visited the G.W. Zoo to buy a tiger cub, a tiger, and a lion hybrid, according to Texas Monthly.
Jeff has been described as “flashy.”
That, according to Texas Monthly. But I’m not talking Joe Exotic-level flashiness here. Jeff doesn’t have a handlebar mustache or penchant for wearing sparkly stuff—he just really likes big cats and showing them off.
He’s had an interesting career path.
When Jeff met Joe, he showed up with a trailer that had once been owned by professional daredevil Evel Knievel, Texas Monthly reported. Jeff once managed Evel and his son Robbie, and has even worked with Prince, according to his bio on the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park website.
Jeff discussed his career path and work at the G.W. Zoo in this 2017 video interview:
Working with animals runs in Jeff’s blood.
His grandfather founded the Robbin’s Brothers Circus in 1928, which was later sold to Ringling Brothers. His grandfather continued to work for the circus for years, Jeff’s bio reads. Because of this, Jeff has been around big cats since he was little.
Jeff and Lauren have a new zoo in the works.
The couple (who now have a daughter) are working on a new zoo, to which they plan to move all the animals currently at the G.W. Zoo, The Oklahoman reported.
Jeff revealed back in 2018 that this was in the works. “We think it’s best to let this zoo die with Joe’s conviction and not make the next generation of animals to live here, forever suffer his outrageous behavior and reputation,” he wrote on Facebook at the time, according to Oklahoma’s News 4.
The new zoo will be called the Oklahoma Zoo and is set to open in Summer 2020, according to the company’s Instagram page (which features multiple photos of Jeff and Lauren).
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The zoo will be located in Thackerville, Oklahoma behind the Winstar Casino, per the zoo’s website.
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- Friday, 3 April 2020, 1:07PM
*Will contain spoilers for Tiger King on Netflix*
Tiger King has taken over the internet since it's pretty much the only thing people are watching in isolation.
But what do the stars of the docuseries actually think about their Netflix debut? (spoiler, they're not happy).
Joe Exotic
He's still in prison – and he'll likely be there a while yet.
Joe Exotic – real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – was sentenced to 22 years in jail in January for his role in the Carole Baskin murder-for-hire plot.
But Joe is fighting it of course: filing a US federal lawsuit seeking nearly US$94 million in damages! He claims he was convicted based on false testimony. He also says he was singled out for being 'an openly gay male with the largest collection of generic tigers and crossbreeds'.
But since Tiger King exploded on the internet, he has gained some very famous supporters incuding rapper Cardi B! She's even said she will start a GoFundMe to cover legal costs!
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Carole Baskin
Yeah.... she's not a happy cat.
Baskin says she took part in Tiger King because she was promised it would shine a light on the exploitation of wild animals in 'backyard zoos' across America. But that sort of backfired, since it has now put more of a spotlight on the death of her husband...
Writing on the website of her Big Cat Rescue sanctuary, Baskin says:
'There are not words for how disappointing it is to see that the series not only does not do any of that, but has had the sole goal of being as salacious and sensational as possible to draw viewers,'
'As part of that, it has a segment devoted to suggesting, with lies and innuendos from people who are not credible, that I had a role in the disappearance of my husband Don in 1997.'
Big Cat Rescue is still open. And there may be new tips on the investigation of her husbands disappearance/death...
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Doc Antle
Or as he is also known, Mahamayavi Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle. The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (that's TIGERS for short) is still being run by Antle and like the rest of the cast, he's not happy.
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'This is not a documentary. This is a salacious, outrageous ride through a television show produced to create drama, to just tie you in to some crazy train wreck of a story between the feud of Carole Baskin and Joe Exotic,' Antle said in an interview with TMX News.
Similar to Carole, Doc thought the doco was going to about the positive things he does for animals, and his efforts to protect. (Not that he allegedly got rid of tiger cubs when he no longer needed them...)
Britney Spears before the VMAs.
With Doc Antle.
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'Questions about Carole and Joe were a dozen or so thrown into hundreds of others. And I repeatedly told them, I have no desire to be involved in some show where you got the feud of Carole and Joe going on. It's not my thing,' he said. 'Leave me out of it.'
Zoo Behind Winstar Casino
It was also recently discovered that Doc played a role in a Britney Spears vid! See pic above.
John Lowe
Oklahoma Zoo, which is what Lowe renamed the park after he moved in on Joe Exotic's zoo, behind Winstar Casino, is billed as 'opening summer 2020.'
The negativity after the show hasn't been great for the re-opening, but Lowe seems less than phased, posting a selfie five days ago as Lowe was 'on the way to the vet.'
'They touched on about 10 per cent of the story and, you know, the portrayal of us stealing the zoo from Joe was very unfair because we came here to help him, we got it back on its feet,' he told TMX News.
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John Finlay
One of the few people you might actually like, Joe's first husband John is pretty memorable, with his toothless smile and shirt-free interviews.
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TMZ reports that our guy Finlay now has a brand new set of pearly whites! (Pictured below).
He's also not too happy with the people behind the show, who he says told him to be shirtless in interviews! He also want's the world to know that his missing teeth aren't from his meth use but more a genetic trait problem...
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He now lives in Oklahoma with his fiance Stormey from the final episode, where he got THAT tattoo removed. As explained on the show, like Joe Exotic's other husband Travis, he was never actually gay.
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