Jeff Johnson, the former reptile dealer seen in Netflix’s Tiger King has died, Oklahoma City Police confirmed to Deadline today. His cause of death was declared a suicide. He was 58.
Johnson’s appearance on the show was not long, but it was memorable. In Episode 4 of Season 1, Johnson shed light on the animosity between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin saying, “Carole’s lawyers are vicious and they go after anybody involved…So everybody that had been involved all got dragged into court.”
According to the police report, Johnson shot himself on September 8 of this year after an argument with his wife. He was alive when first responders arrived, but pronounced dead at the hospital.
It’s been a bad couple months for the Tiger King family. Just days before Johnson’s death, Erik Cowie, a zookeeper featured on the Netflix series, died on September 3. The cause of Cowie’s...
Johnson’s appearance on the show was not long, but it was memorable. In Episode 4 of Season 1, Johnson shed light on the animosity between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin saying, “Carole’s lawyers are vicious and they go after anybody involved…So everybody that had been involved all got dragged into court.”
According to the police report, Johnson shot himself on September 8 of this year after an argument with his wife. He was alive when first responders arrived, but pronounced dead at the hospital.
It’s been a bad couple months for the Tiger King family. Just days before Johnson’s death, Erik Cowie, a zookeeper featured on the Netflix series, died on September 3. The cause of Cowie’s...
- 11/22/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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