Joe was also a polygamist who lived with his (very young) husbands at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, which he opened in 1999. Here's everything you need to know about his husbands.

Joe's first husband was Brian Rhyne.

Joe met Brian in the late 1980s, while working as a security guard at a gay cowboy bar in Texas called the Round-up Saloon, according to a New York magazine profile. Brian was 19 years old at the time, but he soon moved into Joe's trailer, where they shared several poodles. Soon, they "grew to resemble each other, with mullets and horseshoe mustaches and dressed in jeans and boots," the profile says. "On Saturdays, they would snort pink-tinged meth and go out to the bars."

Joe opened the zoo with Brian, who died of complications from HIV in 2001.

Next, Joe Exotic married both John Finlay and Travis Maldonado in a three-way ceremony.

In 2003, Joe hired 19-year-old John Finlay to help run his zoo and road show.

Later, in 2013, 19-year-old meth addict Travis Maldonado started working at the zoo at the suggestion of one of Joe's employees.

By early 2014, Maldonado, Finlay, and Joe Exotic were married in a three-way ceremony that took place in a dance hall across the street from the zoo, with several of the animals as participants.

Less than a year after that, Finlay wanted out of the relationship. Per Texas Monthly 's deep dive into Joe's life, Finlay believed Joe was becoming domineering, controlling, and obsessive. He attacked Joe in a parking lot, and was charged with battery. Finlay later married a woman and had a child, according to NY Mag .

Maldonado passed away in 2017 after accidentally shooting himself at the zoo's gift shop. According to witnesses, he took the magazine out of his Ruger pistol to prove a point about how it wouldn't fire without the magazine. However, there was a bullet in the chamber, which killed him. At the time, Joe was running for Oklahoma governor, and held a press conference at the park the next day, per the Oklahoman .

Joe is reportedly still married to Dillon Passage.

After Travis died, Joe told his associates to look for new prospects for him on Grindr and Tinder, and soon found Dillon Passage. They married two months after Travis's death, and when Dillon was 22, they moved to Gulf Breeze, Florida, where Joe found work washing dishes at a pirate-themed seafood restaurant.

Because Joe was paranoid about being followed, he posted a series of Instagram posts from "California," "Belize," and "Mexico," which were actually posted from Florida.

They are reportedly still married, according to an article in the DailyBeast .