“Hi all you adorable cats and kittens,” Carol Baskin’s husband isn’t dead after all.
The ex-husband of the “Tiger King” star, Don Luis, has been found alive in Costa Rica, but the discovery has now gone viral — more than a year later.
During a November 2021 interview with ITV’s ‘This Morning’ talk showBaskin, 61, has revealed that her ex-husband, who was declared legally dead in 2002 after disappearing a few years earlier, is in fact alive and well.
The owner of Big Cat Rescue has alleged that the Department of Homeland Security has been in contact with her ex.
“One of the really interesting things that came out of ‘Tiger King 2’ is that they provided a letter from the Department of Homeland Security stating that a special agent in charge of the FBI in the Department of Homeland Security had contact with Mayor George’s investigator. [Jorge] Fernandez, which means this had to happen after 2002, because Homeland Security didn’t exist until 2002,” Baskin told the outlet at the time.
She continued, “And they said my husband, Don Luis, is alive and well in Costa Rica.”
The Post has reached out to Baskin for comment.
Lewis has not made any public statements refuting the rumors that he has died.
And even though the news is over a year old, people are just starting to pay attention to it thanks to the now-viral social media posts.
“Was I the only one who didn’t know they found Carole Baskin’s husband living his best life in Costa Rica?!” someone wrote on Twitter.
someone else wrote“Wait, I see people saying Carole Baskin’s husband has been found alive???”
During a Netflix docu-series that premiered at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Baskin revealed that her ex-husband had mysteriously disappeared in 1997. At the time of his disappearance, the two were married, and she claimed she had never been married. I heard from him again, according to CBS News.
She has been married since then, having married Howard Baskin in 2004.
After Baskin shared her story on the series, which chronicled the trials and tribulations of imprisoned big cat guard Joseph Maldonado Passage, many people believed Baskin nothing to do with her the disappearance of the former. Some So set off In some outlandish conspiracy theories, Including an unfounded claim it was Involved in the murder-for-hire plot. Joe Exotic also claimed to have done so Feed her ex to the tigers at Big Cat Rescue.
Baskin She was very shocked In doing so, she joined a “secret” support group for celebrities going through similar things.
Lewis’s family also believed Baskin was involved in his disappearance, even paying the price for it TV spot During her 2020 debut on Dancing with the Stars, where she asked the audience for answers and tips.
“Do you know who did this or if Carol Baskin was involved?” family attorney John Phillips said during the commercial.
However, Baskin has vehemently denied those claims.
“I think their actions are just a publicity stunt,” said the owner of Big Cat Rescue he said in an email to CNN After the ad aired, “But if we help find Don, it will be a huge relief.”