Cats out of the bag! Tiger King’s Dillon Passage shouldn’t be a fan of Jeff Lowe, his husband Joe Unique’s former enterprise associate.
“I do know Jeff Lowe personally and I can’t communicate extremely of him, as a result of there has not been in the future or one factor he has completed that made me suppose, ‘Oh that’s a good man,’” Passage, 24, advised Us Weekly solely on Friday, April 10. “By no means as soon as did I feel that. I do know that your complete factor was orchestrated by Jeff.”
Passage, whose husband is at the moment in jail serving a 22-year sentence for hiring a hitman to kill Carole Baskin and 17 prices of animal abuse, claimed that Lowe is the actual individual accountable for Unique’s jail time.
“The one who orchestrated all of it was Jeff Lowe, as a result of he was being stingy and wished the zoo. That was no secret,” he defined to Us.
Lowe, who at the moment owns and operates Higher Wynnewood Unique Animal Park in Oklahoma, had his justifiable share of ups and downs with Unique, which is among the causes Passage can’t forgive him.
“[Lowe] made that apparent very many occasions. Even within the docuseries, he says, ‘Some individuals could name it establishing, however I name it persuading,’” Passage recalled. “That simply exhibits character proper there or lack of.”
He is aware of that “issues might take a flip” for his husband in the case of his time served, however famous that for Lowe, “karma is a bitch.”
Though Unique’s feud with the Huge Cat Sanctuary proprietor was a huge a part of his eventual conviction — and proven all through the Netflix documentary — Passage doesn’t blame her for his troubles.
“I’ve by no means met Carole, so I can’t discuss how her persona is behind what was proven,” Passage admitted. “I do know that her and Joe simply didn’t have a good relationship. He was in a darkish place and she or he was continuously throwing lawsuits at him.”
He defined that Baskin did something she might to “piss Joe off” over time, however in the case of the individuals who know her “she may very well be a very nice individual.”
Passage concluded that “no, I don’t maintain any resentment towards Carole,” although she was a part of the rationale Unique is behind bars.
Lowe, for his half, claimed to Us solely that Unique’s true colours weren’t precisely depicted on the true-crime documentary.
“They didn’t actually present Joe. They touched upon it, however that man is the largest prison,” the zookeeper advised Us on March 30. “Every thing about Joe was pretend! We tolerated it as a lot as we might, however [my wife] Lauren and I went again to Las Vegas.”
Tiger King: Homicide, Mayhem and Insanity is at the moment streaming on Netflix.
With reporting by Brody Brown
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