Tiger King’s Joe Exotic says he has ‘aggressive cancer’

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic (Santa Rosa County Jail via AP)

The man known as Tiger King, who gained fame in a Netflix documentary following his conviction for trying to hire someone to kill an animal rights activist, says he has cancer.

“It is with a sad face that I have to tell you … that my prostate biopsy’s came back with an aggressive cancer,” Joe Exotic, who is being held at a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, wrote on a Twitter post.