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Joe Exotic Built a Wild Animal Kingdom. He Was the Most Dangerous Predator of Them All.

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A cunning and cuddly persona created an empire. A murder plot brought it crashing down.

Joe Exotic said kill her and do it soon.

The “gay, gun-toting cowboy with a mullet,” as he liked to call himself, stood on the front porch of his Oklahoma zoo around midnight, speaking to the man he’d decided would kill his arch-rival.

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