DANCING With The Stars' Carole Baskin is in hot water after jokes were made about her missing ex-husband.
Carole, 59, has been accused of being behind the 1997 disappearance of her millionaire husband Don Lewis.
Don's daughters Lynda, Donna and Gale, and his former assistant, Anne McQueen are suing the Netflix sensation for defamation.
They're mad Carole did not shut down jokes alluding to her husband's disappearance and alleged murder.
On Monday night’s show, Carole performed a paso doble to Eye of the Tiger with pro dancer Pasha Pashkov. It opened with him locked in a cage with stuffed tigers.
However the judges got their claws out for Carole, who was wearing a tiger-print outfit.
She got a score of just 11 out of 30 – the lowest of the night.
In their critique, the judges referred to viral Tik Tok videos that remixed Megan Thee Stallion's hit, Savage, into a narrative about Don's disapperance.
The videos remix the lyrics to, "Carole Baskin killed her husband, whacked him. Can't convince me that it didn't happen. Fed him to tigers, they snackin'. What's happening?"
In the defamation law suit, seen by TMZ, his family is upset that a DWTS judge said Carole "didn't quite kill the paso double, it was kind of sedated."
Anne, in particular, does not like the use of "kill" and "sedated."
The law suit also cites Carole's appearance on Good Morning America before her DWTS debut.
In that interview Carole promised to "really kill it next week" on ABC's dancing series.
Carole previously settled a libel and slander suit with Anne for $50,000 after she sued the Tiger King star 1998.
Don's family bought an ad during the first episode of DWTS asking for information about their missing father.
His daughters Lynda, Donna and Gale offered a £77,000 reward for information.
Donna said: “We need to know what happened to our father.”
Lawyer John, also on the ad with Anne, said: “His family deserve answers. They deserve justice. Do you know who did this or if Carole Baskin was involved?”
Carole got most of her husband’s £4.5million estate after he was declared dead in 2002.
In Netflix’s Tiger King series, Joe Exotic claimed she fed Don to tigers at her Big Cat Rescue animal park in Florida. She denies the allegation.
Carole got most of her husband’s £4.5million estate after he was declared dead in 2002.
In Netflix’s Tiger King series, Joe Exotic claimed she fed Don to tigers at her Big Cat Rescue animal park in Florida. She denies the allegation.
Exotic, 57, is now in jail after trying to hire a hitman to kill Carole.
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