Carole Baskin has claimed that her ex-husband - believed to be dead - has been found alive in Costa Rica.
As reported by the New York Post, the Tiger King star's ex-husband, Don Lewis, famously disappeared in 1997 - just two months after he sought a restraining order against his then-wife.
A highly-publicized topic of the popular Netflix documentary, even Baskin herself became a suspect in the eyes of the viewers - with rumors running rampant that she had fed her ex to one of her tigers.
Baskin even took to her website, BigCatRescue.org, to address the rumors, saying: "This is the most ludicrous of all the lies."
Directly addressing Joe Exotic's suggestions that she used her sanctuary's meat grinder, Baskin added: "The meat grinder shown in the video was enormous. Our meat grinder was one of those little tabletop, hand-crank things like you’d have in your kitchen at home.
"Meat had to first be cut into one-inch cubes … to go through it. The idea that a human body and skeleton could be put through it is idiotic."
Although, Baskin was widely "memed" on social media after telling the documentary filmmakers how she would kill somebody, stating: "If I were gonna, you know, if somebody wanted to kill you, then they would put sardine oil all over you.
"Something that the cat wants to eat, not something the cat wants to drool on."
But during an appearance on UK's This Morning back in November 2021, Baskin has revealed that officials have confirmed that Lewis is alive.
Talking about the Tiger King 2 follow-up documentary, Baskin said: "One of the really exciting things that came out of Tiger King 2 is that they produced a letter from Homeland Security and it says that a special agent in charge with the FBI at Homeland Security reached out to the sheriff’s detective George [Jorge] Fernandez, which means this had to have happened after 2002, because Homeland Security wasn’t even around until 2002."
Baskin added: "They said that my husband, Don Lewis, is alive and well in Costa Rica."
"I didn’t think he was capable of supporting himself," Baskin then quipped. "He took about a million dollars down to Costa Rica, I had agreed to let him do that so he could prove to himself that he could make a living.”
Baskin later reiterated these findings to The Post, saying: "I was not aware of it until [Tiger King 2] aired."
The Post adds that it had reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for more information.
Following the overwhelming success of Tiger King, documentary icon Louis Theroux revisited Baskin and her new husband Howard Baskin, and asked about her thoughts on what happened to Lewis.
At the time, she appeared to believe that Lewis had actually died, as she said: "I think people will often ask me what you think happened to him. I had so many theories at the time.
"I think the thing that makes most sense is he crashed an experimental or ultralight out over the gulf. If it was anything else I think they would have found him by now."