Here's what the former zoo owner has been up to since the show premiered.
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Is Joe Exotic's zoo still open? Joe Exotic's G.W. Zoo is now permanently closed to the public, but the details of the closure are still being debated. After Joe went to jail, his former colleague, Jeff Lowe, was put in charge.
Baskin sold the Wynnewood property in June for $140,000. Under the terms of sale, the new owners are barred from using the property to house exotic animals of any kind — or as a zoo, wildlife park or menagerie — for 100 years.
In June 2020, a federal judge ordered the Lowes to relinquish the property to Big Cat Rescue sanctuary owner Carole Baskin to settle a longstanding legal dispute. After Lowe's license to exhibit animals was suspended in October 2020, he forfeited it permanently.
Read the ruling hereThe USDA pulled Stark's license around the time the show premiered after accusations of animal abuse and neglect, and the facility eventually closed. In April 2021, Stark was banned from ever owning or exhibiting any exotic or native animals ever again.
In the end it turned out that the remains were simply that of a small animal, possibly an alligator according to TMZ, and not humans remains. The scent was picked up in an alligator pit.
Mahamayavi Bhagavan Doc Antle is featured in Netflix's Tiger King. Antle owns and operates the Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina, which is still operating despite the coronavirus pandemic.
He was keeping a mixture of lions, tigers, and a rare lion-tiger crossbreed called a liger. Theroux said many of the animals were rescued from private owners who could no longer look after them. Later in the documentary Exotic reveals he has 176 tigers kept at the zoo.