• ‘Tiger King’s’ Carole Baskin begs Kate McKinnon not to use big cats in biopic

    ‘Tiger King’s’ Carole Baskin begs Kate McKinnon not to use big cats in biopic

    There’s still a lot we don’t know about Carole Baskin, the foil to “Tiger King” subject and would-be proxy murderer Joe Exotic. And while armchair detectives such as Kim Kardashian have speculated Baskin could be a murderess herself, what we do know about the notorious animal rights activist at the heart of the wildly popular …
  • ‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin: I did not put my husband in a meat grinder

    ‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin: I did not put my husband in a meat grinder

    Carole Baskin sees herself as the victim in Netflix’s “Tiger King” — but armchair detectives and Twitter conspiracy theorists aren’t buying it. The runaway hit docuseries centers on the eccentric title character, known as Joe Exotic, plotting to have Baskin, a big-cat conservator, murdered. Days before the show took social media by storm, Baskin optimistically …
  • ‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin: I did not put my husband in a meat grinder

    ‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin: I did not put my husband in a meat grinder

    Carole Baskin sees herself as the victim in Netflix’s “Tiger King” — but armchair detectives and Twitter conspiracy theorists aren’t buying it. The runaway hit docuseries centers on the eccentric title character, known as Joe Exotic, plotting to have Baskin, a big-cat conservator, murdered. Days before the show took social media by storm, Baskin optimistically …
  • ‘Tiger King’ fans, including Cardi B, want to free Joe Exotic

    ‘Tiger King’ fans, including Cardi B, want to free Joe Exotic

    A docuseries about big cats has opened a can of worms. In the wildly popular Netflix show “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” the outrageous and charismatic rogue zookeeper Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic, is painted as wildly unhinged. But not all viewers see it that way. In fact, some — including rapper Cardi …
  • Joe Exotic’s human target wanted to end vengeful zookeeper’s ‘industry of misery’

    Joe Exotic’s human target wanted to end vengeful zookeeper’s ‘industry of misery’

    Carole Baskin insists she does not have a personal vendetta against Joe Exotic. Never mind that he shot up effigies of her in Internet videos, tried to have her killed (on two occasions) and has long stood in opposition to her beliefs. Whatever the case, their battle — let’s at least call it that — …