Where Is Carole Baskin After 'Tiger King' Attempted Murder and Longtime Rivalry

Netflix's newest true-crime documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness shines a terrifying light on a pair of longtime enemies and how far one would go for his own greed. Joe Exotic is the star of the documentaries series, which aired on Netflix Friday, and his wild lifestyle makes the entire series something simply incomparable.

Joe Exotic, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, spent much of his career as a tiger park owner threatening a woman named Carole Baskin, who owns and operates the Big Cat Rescue. While Baskin owns big cats, too, she claims there's a huge difference in their stories. Baskin spends her life trying to eventually end the captivity of big cats, like tigers, while Joe Exotic spent his time breeding cats to sell and increase consumer demand.

Baskin and Joe Exotic, naturally, formed a giant rivalry due to Baskin's disapproval of his breeding and general "abuse" of the animals in his care. The pair have a list of similarities, though, too. Both are so obsessed with their tigers that every part of their lives revolves around them, and they both operate animal parks open to the public. The only difference between the two seems to be that their love for animals comes from a different place.

Tiger King follows the odd routines of Joe Exotic, who has also been in the public eye for his country music career, trials as a politician and polyamorous relationship. Eventually, his hatred for Baskin turned into attempted murder for hire. In January, the man was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the murder for hire, as well as other charges of animal abuse.

So where is Baskin now?

Baskin, thankfully, wasn't actually murdered after Joe Exotic failed to hire someone to kill her. It turns out, the person he planned to pay $3,000 as the result of Baskin's death was an undercover FBI agent, according to NBC.

At his sentencing in January, Baskin spoke up about how her flammable rivalry with Joe Exotic has changed her life for the worse. She revealed the past 10 years have been full of fear from his ongoing threats. "If he completes his sentence and is released, we will end up spending the rest of our lives, constantly looking over our shoulders, for a threat to our lives," Baskin said in a statement, which was posted to the Big Cats Rescue website after she read it in court. "I hope you will give us as many years free of that threat as you can."

Big Cat Rescue in Citrus Park, Florida, is still open to the public. It's open Friday through Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is closed Wednesday and Thursday.

Even with Joe Exotic behind bars, the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, is still open to the public. It's been operating under new ownership since 2016. Jeff and Lauren Lowe have tried to cut ties with the image of Joe Exotic by denouncing his treatment of the animals, even claiming his "His tyranny in the animal world is over," in a Facebook post captured by Kiro 7. The public can visit every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m..