The document said Stark had a line of credit that was secured by improvements to the property, which the nonprofit didn't have any lease agreements in place for the property it was located at. Documents state the Board of Directors rarely held formal meetings, didn't take minutes of meetings, and didn't prepare or review budgets or financial statements. The opinion states the court found Tim Stark will be personally liable to misappropriated funds from his nonprofit organization, Wildlife in Need, which is located in Charlestown, Indiana.Ĭourt documents state the nonprofit was started by Stark in 1999 who also served as its president. That's according to new court documents obtained by ABC's Dan Abrams. He was eventually apprehended after being overheard talking about himself and his animals, and since then things haven’t gone well for him.LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - One of the characters from the hit Netflix show "Tiger King" has been found liable for misappropriating funds. When the authorities seize his collection, he tries to hide several of his most valuable animals in a lightless, airless box truck which is promptly discovered and emptied.Įventually, Stark goes on the run, constantly posting insane rants to social media intimating that he’s going to blow himself up with a grenade which is later discovered to be a children’s toy. He is wildly rude and threatening to law enforcement, the press, and court officials, makes very thinly-veiled threats to people’s lives, and point-blank refuses to follow any legislation regarding the handling of exotic animals. Stark constantly maintains that he’s an Army-trained sniper and will shoot anyone who attempts to enter his property and remove his possessions, which is, by his own admission, how he sees the animals and justifies their mistreatment.
Naturally, Stark’s cavalier attitude resulted in federal authorities raiding Wildlife in Need and seizing his animals, although it takes a while to get to that point. Louis and leaving the passengers without air conditioning for the night.
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It’s easy to imagine Jeff sitting around doing nothing while someone else fronted the bills and did all the work, but it’s equally easy to imagine some truth in Jeff’s counterclaims that their business deal fell apart because Stark brought a trailer full of dead animals to the zoo after stopping for a booty call in St.
But after Joe Exotic is shipped to state prison, Stark teams up with Jeff Lowe to jointly turn GW Zoo into a thriving mega-zoo in a 50/50 arrangement that Stark claims was anything but. When he’s initially introduced late in the second season, it isn’t immediately clear why any of this is relevant. Wildlife in Need was Stark’s so-called non-profit, a shady business that’s claim to fame was Baby Tiger Playtime, a very hands-on public show that consisted, as far as I can tell, of Stark deliberately antagonizing dangerous animals and then releasing them into crowds of people. He’s yet another owner of an exotic animal “sanctuary” who has made a name and a living on animals clearly being exploited for profit, but between his constant claims of army training, his insane social media rants complete with a plastic prop grenade, and his deeply cruel business dealings, who is Tim Stark, really?
You wouldn’t want anyone in Tiger King looking after your pets, but even among such bizarre company, Tim Stark stands out as being perhaps the most detestable.
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