Tiger King’s Carole Baskin is serving a lawsuit from husband Don Lewis’ family

Tiger King star Carole Baskin is facing a lawsuit by the family of her ex-husband Don Lewis, who disappeared and was murdered in 1997.

Lewis’s family also offers a reward of $ 100,000 (£ 76,300) for information about what happened to him.

A family lawyer has filed the lawsuit in an attempt to force Baskin to testify about the record.

Lewis disappeared a day before a planned trip to Costa Rica, and was declared legally dead in 2002.

Lewis and Baskin co-founded a animal sanctuary in Tampa, Florida, which later became Big Cat Rescue Corporation. They were married at the time of his disappearance, but he had filed two months earlier for a restraining order against them.

‘Unsavory reads’

Theories about what happened to him were part of the hit Netflix series, including suggestions that Baskin, who received most of his $ 6 million (£ 4.5 million) estate, was responsible for his disappearance. .

She vehemently denied that she had anything to do with it. “The unusual lies are better for getting viewers,” she said.

Baskin told investigators of reported sightings in Costa Rica, saying he had been involved with local gangsters there. No one has ever been arrested for his disappearance.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Lewis’s youngest daughter Gale Rathbone referred to the renewed interest in the case brought by the series.

‘Search for Closure and Truth’

“Amazingly, our little family tradition has become your tragedy,” she said. “Our quest for closure and truth has also become your mission.

“It simply came to our notice then [Lewis] was not a perfect man. But deserve only the perfect under our righteousness? “

Baskin told The Associated Press: “It has been my policy not to enter into deliberations on adjudication until it is resolved.

“I had told some news reports that I thought the press conference on Aug. 10 was just a publicity stunt, but at the time, it was not aware that there would be any petition in conversation.”

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