Don Lewis had "a wife and 23 girlfriends" when he started dating Carole Baskin.
The 59-year-old animal rights activist - whose ex-husband went missing in 1997 and was declared legally dead in 2002 - had admitted to being shocked by the realities of his love life, as they were having sex "two or three times a day" at one point.
Carole - who starred in the hit Netflix series 'Tiger King' - said: "When I met him, he told me his name was Bob Martin. And that he was just a poor lot boy that worked for this really evil guy, Don Lewis.
"So when I would go to the lot where he worked, that we had a little trailer, a little RV in the back that we would meet in and he told me I'd have to hide under the dashboard as he drove me in and out of the lot, because we were hiding from Don.
"Well, I didn't know, for two or three years that we were hiding from Don's wife, not Don, and that Bob Martin was Don.
"What I didn't know was that he had all of these other girlfriends.
"I learned in 'Tiger King' that his wife said he had 23 other girlfriends, and I'm like '23?!'
"And we were having sex like two or three times a day - when does he have time?!"
Don disappeared a day before a scheduled trip to Costa Rica, and was declared officially dead years later.
Speaking about his death, she told 'Katie Piper's Extraordinary People' podcast: "The closest I ever came to closure, he disappeared in 1997 and there was a conservatorship that was put in place for the next five years.
"And at the end of that period of time, the conservatorship ended by filing a death certificate.
"I didn't see a copy of it until like 2002, but I remember I was actually sitting here at this desk when I opened it and I looked out the window and it was the middle of the day.
"And it was dark by the time I came back from wherever it was that I had gone. And then I just cried for days. Probably two or three days, I just cried and cried.
"I could not stop crying. And then it was like, okay, it's over. And it felt like that was the closest I'm probably ever going to get any kind of closure on that."
