‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic wants Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow to help him get out of prison

One “Tiger King” is asking for help from another “Tiger King.”

Joe Exotic, star of Netflix’s hit series “Tiger King,” wants Cincinnati Bengals’ star quarterback Joe Burrow to help him get out of prison.

Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, wrote a letter to Burrow that he posted on social media. In his letter to “Joe Burrows,” Exotic asks for $20,000 as a “down payment to hire attorneys” and added that Burrow should be willing to give him the money since they both are associated with the “Tiger King” nickname.

“I see the news, magazines as well as yourself calling you the Tiger King,” Exotic wrote. “Everyone in the world is exploiting me and my trademarks while I sit innocent in an American Federal Prison. I have been the Tiger King before you got out of high school. Tiger King is my trademark and intellectual property. My life has been destroyed … while you all ride fame and attention off my life’s work.”

Exotic is serving a 21-year prison sentence after he was convicted of hiring two men to murder Carole Baskin along with animal abuse charges in 2019. He said he needs the money to hire attorneys for his appeal.

Exotic will probably have to look elsewhere to raise the money.

Burrow has said he doesn’t like the “Tiger King” nickname and doesn’t want to be associated with the show because of the animal abuse.

“See, I don’t like that one that much. I don’t like that show, I have not seen the show, because I don’t like seeing animals in cages, I don’t really like that,” Burrow said during an interview with Lordstown Motors in 2022. “I didn’t see the show, so I don’t like that nickname.”

Burrows has not publicly responded to Exotic’s letter.