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Carole Ann Baskin (née Stairs; formerly Murdock and Lewis; born June 6, 1961) is an American animal rights activist and CEO of Big Cat Rescue, a non-profit animal sanctuary. [ 1][ 2] She has attracted the attention of local, national and international media outlets to the plight of captive big cats .
Oct 7, 2020 · Carole Baskin is an animal rights activist who runs the Big Cat Rescue animal sanctuary. Her appearance in the docuseries 'Tiger King' brought new attention to her advocacy but...
Oct 30, 2021 · Carole Baskin likely never imagined that her participation in Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness would result in her becoming a household name. But the seven-part documentary series did just that — and renewed a decades-old investigation into her missing husband, Don Lewis.
Apr 17, 2024 · “Tiger King” star Carole Baskin is asking the Florida Supreme Court to protect her against a defamation lawsuit filed by the longtime assistant of her missing former husband.
Jan 18, 2023 · "Tiger King" star Carole Baskin's ex-husband, Don Lewis, has been found alive in Costa Rica, but the discovery is just now going viral — over a year later.
Apr 1, 2020 · Joe Exotic, a tiger breeder whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is now in a federal prison cell in Texas, sentenced to 22 years for an unsuccessful scheme to kill the animal activist...
Nov 16, 2021 · Where is Carole Baskin now? Carole still runs Big Cat Rescue (and she was actually awarded Joe's zoo in May 2020), and she's now married to a man named Howard Baskin, who appears in Tiger...
Mar 25, 2020 · Carole Baskin, an animal activist and big-cat lover who runs a sanctuary called the Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla., never dreamed she’d be stirring up the sorts of news...
Aug 3, 2022 · After marrying Don Lewis, her second husband, in 1991, she worked with him and later founded an animal sanctuary for big cats in Tampa, Florida. Now, Carole is also the Chief Executive Officer of the sanctuary, which has been renamed Big Cat Rescue.
Nov 18, 2021 · Tiger King star Carole Baskin has reacted to claims that her former husband is alive and well, having apparently been found in Costa Rica. Don Lewis went missing in 1997, after marrying Baskin six years earlier, and was later legally declared dead in 2002.
