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By Deirdre Durkan-simonds for Dailymail.com
22:27 February 3, 2024, updated 22:51 February 3, 2024
Tiger King’s Joe Exotic asked Kim Kardashian for help getting him out of prison in one of his older sister Kourtney’s recent Instagram photos.
The former zookeeper attempted to contact the reality star, who has been studying law since 2018, via social media earlier this week.
“Please have your sister help me out of this hell,” the convicted felon, whose rise and fall were documented in the Netflix documentary Tiger King, asked Kourtney.
In five days, the comment received more than 10,495 likes and hundreds of comments.
In response to a fan asking if the comment was real, Exotic responded that he was “ready to film my comeback series” and needed Kim to “press Biden to sign” his “forgiveness.”
The Kansas native, 60, also gushed about the photo Kourtney posted with her baby boy, Rocky Thirteen, who was wrapped in his mother’s arms.
Exotic: Real name Joseph Allen Maldonado was convicted of 17 federal counts of animal abuse and two counts of attempted murder-for-hire in his plot to kill Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin in 2019.
The case was the focus of the popular 2020 Netflix series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness.
Last February, TMZ reported that Exotic’s medical team believed his prostate cancer had spread to his bladder, however, he was refusing treatment.
While Kim didn’t recognize Exotic, she previously admitted to binge-watching the Netflix documentary series Tiger King.
She even dressed up as Baskin for Halloween in 2020 while her best friend, Jonathan Cheban, hilariously coordinated as Exotic, alongside her four children dressed as tigers.
While Kim may seem like an odd choice to turn to for help, he has become a force in criminal justice and prison reform.
Kim’s advocacy work dates back to 2017, when she became involved in the clemency fight for Alice Johnson.
He first contacted Ivanka Trump about the case and then met with former President Donald Trump to campaign on Johnson’s behalf.
This led to Trump pardoning Alice for a non-violent drug trafficking offense and her release from prison in the summer of 2018.
Kardashian has since fought for others in similar situations, including Kevin Cooper and Julius Jones.
Speaking recently on Angie Martinez’s podcast IRL, Kim commented on her first trip to the White House: “I hated how I felt when I walked into the White House for the first time and I didn’t know half of what they were saying, like everyone else. talk about the pardon, and all the lawyers’ jargon and everything they were talking about.’
“With Alice, I was really naïve to how this all worked,” she said. “There is a lot of work behind this.”
Kardashian said her late father, attorney Robert Kardashian, would love for her to have continued his career in the legal world and that they had talked about her following him.
With her continued efforts, the SKIMS founder successfully helped overturn Jones’ death sentence.
And last May, on the first season of her family’s Hulu show, The Kardashians, Kim documented the moment she found out she had passed the baby bar law exam.
While in her car with her friend and publicist Tracy Romulus, the media personality logged into an online account where she learned the results of her third attempt at the test.
“Everyone told me that this was the impossible path and that there was no way I would ever pass this test, and I did,” he later said in a confessional interview.