Trick-or-treaters can now dress as Joe Exotic — otherwise known as the “Tiger King,” a self-described “gay, gun-carrying redneck with a mullet” — thanks to PETA.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has listed the “Joe Exotic Tiger Killer Costume” on its website for $159.99. The outfit includes a blond mullet wig, a mustache, jail bars, an orange prison jumpsuit and a plush tiger — and will ship by July 31, well before Halloween.
Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is serving a 22-year prison sentence for a vengeful murder-for-hire plot to kill animal activist Carole Baskin over a longstanding, vicious feud — which was documented in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”
PETA Foundation lawyer Brittany Peet, who appears in the docuseries, testified at the trial for the “notorious tiger abuser” and helped rescue nearly 50 animals from the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma.
” ‘Tiger King’ has exposed tiger exhibitors as ghouls who steal cubs from their mothers, exploit them as living photo props, and then often discard or kill them when they grow up,” Peet said in a news release.
PETA hopes the limited-edition costume “will remind everyone who is the true villain of ‘Tiger King.’ ”
“We hope everyone will be out and about by Halloween, so this one-of-a-kind costume is available for preorder now,” reads the costume description on PETA’s website.
The animal rights group is also trying to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic — selling coronavirus-themed masks that say “Tofu never caused a pandemic” and “Meat markets are breeding grounds for disease.”



