Two months ago, if you had asked Joe Exotic—the star of the mega-popular Netflix series Tiger King that aired last year—what NFT stands for, he might have replied “no friggin’ tigers”, as he had lost his adventure park in Oklahoma and was sent to jail after being convicted of a murder-for-hire plot against his nemesis, the big cat rescuer Carol Baskin.
In an auction beginning 18 June, “Joe Exotic”, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, will sell off the Smith and Wesson revolver that he famously waved around on YouTube videos, which carries a starting bid of $100,000, his fringed leather jacket and NFTs of several animated images, including audio recordings Exotic made in prison.
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