The Tiger King Zoo Has Closed Permanently After Report Of Animal Welfare Violations

The animal park featured on the Netflix show Tiger King is closing. The park's owner, Jeff Lowe, announced on Facebook that the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma will close "effectively immediately."

There will be a "new park," but it will be a closed set for new content based on Tiger King for TV and streaming services, Lowe said. The Facebook post has since been removed, but the details were reported on by Entertainment Weekly.

Lowe took over control of the park after the original owner, Joe Exotic, went to prison in a murder-for-hire plot. In May, the court ordered that ownership of the park would go to the rival park owner Carole Baskin. This decision came down after the judge ruled that Joe Exotic improperly transferred ownership of the zoo to Lowe, giving Lowe 120 days to leave.

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