Priscilla Presley, Kim Basinger Slam L.A. Zoo Elephants Switch to Tulsa

Hollywood is talking out after the L.A. Zoo snuck out its two remaining Asian elephants Tina and Billy in a single day on Tuesday — avoiding any potential protesters amid fierce stress to maneuver them to a correct sanctuary quite than the Tulsa Zoo.

Priscilla Presley and Kim Basinger each inform TMZ they consider the overnight transfer was “cowardly,” with the previous including she is “devastated and outraged” by the “merciless” remedy of the beloved elephants.

Priscilla — who has advocated for animal rights through Final Likelihood for Animals for almost a decade — says Billy and Tina “deserved freedom, house to roam, and the peace of a real sanctuary.”

In the meantime, Kim took intention at Los Angeles’ mayor Karen Bass for permitting the switch to undergo regardless of pending lawsuits to cease their switch to the Tulsa Zoo.

She says the choice to position Billy, 40, and Tina, 59, in a sanctuary “was a slam dunk, and a very simple resolution to make” that may have lifted the spirits of L.A. residents — and given the elephants the free-roaming, social life they deserved.

As an alternative, KB accuses Mayor Bass of getting “no compassion in any respect” and misusing her authority, additional alleging … “It is a blatantly inhumane selection figuring out that there was the choice to ship each of them to a sanctuary to stay out their lives quite than into one other lock-up zoo scenario.”

She provides … “Captivity and chains isn’t any method these animals ought to ever have needed to stay. There may be not one redeeming high quality to being shackled in jail.”

Equally to Priscilla, the “By no means Say By no means Once more” star — who has labored with the Performing Animal Welfare Society for 35 years — says the battle is not over and she or he hopes an ordinance is handed that “won’t ever be elephants in Los Angeles County ever once more.”

Priscilla and and Kim’s passionate statements come after they joined a slew of celebrities equivalent to Cher, Alicia Silverstone, Diane Warren, Katherine Heigl, Nicola Peltz Beckham and Justin Theroux in signing a letter sent to Mayor Bass demanding the remaining two elephants on the L.A. Zoo be relocated to a sanctuary.

In a press release to TMZ, the L.A. Zoo claims Bass inquired about transferring Tina and Billy to a sanctuary and the choice to switch them to Tulsa was made after a “complete analysis” of all accessible choices.

They observe … “The choice to maneuver the elephants to the Tulsa Zoo was made with the well being and well-being of the person elephants as the highest precedence.”