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Texas influencer who lost monkey after drunk driving crash desperate to get the sick animal back

November 15, 2024
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A spider monkey belonging to a Dallas-area influencer had a disease caused by malnutrition when police took him from his owner over the weekend, officials said.

The monkey, named Jorgie Boy, was taken from his owner, Brandi Botello, on Saturday morning after Dallas police officers responded to a single-vehicle accident. The driver was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, police said in a statement.

Police did not identify the driver in the statement. Botello told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth that she was charged with DWI but maintained that she was not driving. She said that at the time of the crash, she was intoxicated and had passed out in the passenger seat holding the nearly 3-year-old spider monkey.

Brandi Botello.NBC Dallas-Fort Worth

“I didn’t even know what was going on. I slept through the car accident. I didn’t even know we were in an accident,” she told the station. “I wasn’t driving.”

She said she did move into the driver’s seat after the crash.

“I hopped over to the driver’s seat. I didn’t know we crashed in front of the police station. When I turned around there was a cop right there and he was trying to accuse me of driving, but I wasn’t driving,” she said, according to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.

Botello told the station that the driver was a male acquaintance and that he was charged with public intoxication.

Neither the humans nor the monkey in the car were seriously injured, police said.

Because Botello lives in Irving, a neighboring suburb, the monkey was transferred to Irving’s animal control department, Dallas police said.

Irving police said Thursday that Jorgie Boy was diagnosed with rickets, which they described as “a bone disease caused by inadequate nutrition.” The police department said he is receiving care at “an undisclosed wildlife sanctuary in Texas.”

The Dallas Morning News reported the sanctuary, which it identified as Funky Monkey Ranch, said that Jorgie Boy weighed 6 pounds, less than half of an average spider monkey, and that he had tiny fractures in his bones and elevated liver and pancreatic levels.

The sanctuary’s owner said the monkey would not be returned to its previous owner, the Morning News reported.

Funky Monkey Ranch did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News to confirm details reported by the Morning News.

It is legal in Texas to own some exotic animals, including monkeys, with permits, but the city of Irving prohibits ownership of wild animals.

Botello, who has 43,000 Instagram followers, has been reposting followers’ stories with the hashtag “#FreeJorgieBoy.”

On Instagram, Botello wrote “this ugly depressing lonely feeling I have is the worst” but said she is “not going to stop trying!”

“He means more to me then anything in this world I’m not going to let one little mistake break me I’m willing to change anything and everything for him,” she wrote.

“Being at the wrong place at the wrong time is a real thing,” Botello continued. “I owned up to it … I know I’m a good mom … WE ALL KNOW that!”

Jorgie Boy has an online presence of his own, including an Instagram account with nearly 6,000 followers that includes pictures of him wearing pajama sets, taking baths and dressing up with Botello, who has his name tattooed on her back.

Jorgie Boy’s story comes on the heels of that of Peanut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that authorities seized and euthanized after officials got reports that Peanut’s owner was illegally keeping wild animals in his home.

Rebecca Cohen

Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.

Marin Scott

Marin Scott is an Associate Reporter on the Social Newsgathering team.

Cristian Santana and Meriam Bouarrouj contributed.





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