Carole Baskin's "dead" husband found alive and well in Costa Rica (allegedly)

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“Hey all you cool cats and kittens,” Carole Baskin’s husband isn’t dead after all.

The “Tiger King” star’s ex-husband, Don Lewis, has been found alive in Costa Rica, but the discovery is just now going viral — over a year later.

During a November 2021 interview with ITV’s “This Morning” talk show, Baskin, 61, revealed that her ex, who was declared legally dead in 2002 after disappearing a few years before, is actually alive and well.

The Big Cat Rescue owner alleged that the Department of Homeland Security has been in touch with her former lover.

“One of the really exciting things that came out of ‘Tiger King 2’ is that they produced a letter from Homeland Security and it says that a special agent in charge with the FBI at Homeland Security reached out to the sheriff’s detective George Fernandez, which means this had to have happened after 2002, because Homeland Security wasn’t even around until 2002,” Baskin told the outlet at the time.

She continued, revealing, “And they said that my husband, Don Lewis, is alive and well in Costa Rica.”

Lewis has not made any public statements debunking rumors that he had died.

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