Joe Unique with Dillon Passage insetted. Netflix; Courtesy of Dillon Passage/Instagram
Transferring on. Joe Unique formally filed for divorce from Dillon Passage one 12 months after placing their break up on pause.
The 59-year-old Tiger King star (whose actual title is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage) submitted paperwork to a Florida courthouse on Thursday, March 31, submitting to finish the pair’s four-year marriage.
Maldonado-Passage claimed in courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly that the estranged couple’s union is “irretrievably damaged,” prompting his request for a dissolution of marriage.
The Kansas native — who’s presently serving a 21-year jail sentence for animal abuse and tried homicide for rent — is in search of “non permanent, rehabilitative, durational, bridge-the-gap, and lump sum alimony” to assist him keep the usual of dwelling he had throughout his marriage to Passage, 26, per the docs.
Maldonado-Passage requested the courtroom to revive his former title again to Joseph Allen Maldonado and needs his estranged husband to pay his authorized charges.
The previous Better Wynnewood Unique Animal Park proprietor and Passage tied the knot in December 2017, and their relationship was featured on Netflix’s docuseries, which debuted in early 2020. They introduced their preliminary break up in March 2021 after three years collectively.
“Dillon thinks having to sleep alone and never have me out there’s so tough and onerous to cope with to the purpose he has to go away me,” Maldonado-Passage wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “Now I don’t actually have a residence.”
He claimed that Passage had “deserted” him “simply to have another person to sleep with and name a lover, whereas the person who gave up paying for his personal protection so his husband might stay some sort of pleasurable life whereas he lives by hell.”
Passage, for his half, addressed the break up along with his personal social media put up, writing, “To reply the principle query the general public needs to know, sure, Joe and I are in search of a divorce. This wasn’t a simple choice to make however Joe and I each perceive that this example isn’t truthful to both of us.”
At some point later, Maldonado-Passage’s lawyer Francisco Hernandez confirmed to Us that the duo had determined to place their divorce on maintain. The fact stars spoke on the telephone and selected to “keep married proper now so issues don’t get sophisticated,” Hernandez instructed Us in March 2021.
Maldonado-Passage’s authorized group confirmed in an announcement to Us on Thursday that former Oklahoma resident “didn’t serve” Passage with divorce papers final 12 months amid their temporary talks of parting methods.
Maldonado-Passage has since retained Autumn Beck Blackledge, Pensacola Household Lawyer, to legally pursue the divorce. “Joe ‘Unique’ has tried to acquire details about Mr. Passage and his whereabouts in order that the 2 might enter into what he hopes to be an amicable divorce, however to this point, his makes an attempt to get Mr. Passage to contact him have failed,” the legal professional claimed within the assertion. “It’s the hope of the Tiger King that they’ll each transfer on with their lives and divorce rapidly and amicably.”
With reporting by Diana Cooper
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