Jack Sabato, the son of actress Virginia Madsen and her former partner Antonio Sabato Jr, has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Alaska.
The 32-year-old was arrested in Anchorage on Monday on charges of leaving the scene of an accident without assisting an injured person and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death, a representative for the Alaska Department of Corrections confirmed to the Daily Mail on Tuesday.
Sabato is being held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, the representative said.
His arraignment was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, according to KTUU in Alaska, which first reported his arrest.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Madsen and Sabato Jr but has not received a response.
According to the Anchorage Police Department, the victim was found at 5:48 a.m. on Monday.
Jack Sabato (right), the 32-year-old son of Virginia Madsen (center) and Antonio Sabato Jr (left), was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash, the Alaska Department of Corrections confirmed to the Daily Mail. The family is pictured in Los Angeles in 2012
The victim, identified as 42-year-old Carl Simmonds, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to an Anchorage Police Department news release.
Police said a preliminary investigation indicated that Simmonds had been hit by a vehicle that then left the area.
Later that day, officers located the Chevrolet Tahoe believed to have struck Simmonds and arrested its alleged driver, Sabato.
Officers had initially responded to a report of an unresponsive man. Police have not explained what evidence led them to Sabato or to the vehicle.
In a statement to TMZ, Sabato’s father, Antonio Sabato Jr, said: ‘We all just found out the terrible news and our family is digesting this horrible news and asking for privacy in this devastating news. Thank you.’
The model and actor added that he had not yet been able to speak with his son.
Jack Sabato has largely remained out of the public eye in recent years.
His only acting credit is in the 2008 comedy Diminished Capacity, which starred his mother alongside Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda.
Sabato, pictured with his parents in Hollywood in 1999, was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of an accident without assisting an injured person and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death
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Carl Simmonds, 42, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Anchorage Police Department. Officers later found the Chevrolet Tahoe believed to have struck him and arrested its alleged driver, Jack Sabato. Antonio Sabato Jr and Madsen are pictured in Los Angeles in 2004
Antonio Sabato Jr, pictured in Los Angeles in 2018, said in a statement to TMZ that his family was processing the ‘terrible news’ and asking for privacy
Jack Sabato was born in 1994, and his parents separated in 1998. He is Madsen’s only child, while Sabato Jr has a daughter and another son with two other former partners. The pair are pictured in Los Angeles in 1998
Madsen is an acclaimed actress who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2004 hit comedy Sideways. She is pictured with co-stars (left to right) Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Sandra Oh
Sabato Jr is a model-turned-actor known for his roles on General Hospital and Melrose Place in the 1990s. He later made an unsuccessful bid to become a Republican politician and is pictured at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio
His only other apparent connection to show business came in a 2006 episode of the reality series Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, in which he appeared alongside Madsen.
Madsen rose to prominence with a supporting role in David Lynch’s Dune in 1984. She went on to appear in major films during the 1990s, including the horror classic Candyman in 1992 and the civil rights courtroom drama Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996.
She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2004 hit comedy Sideways.
Sabato is Madsen’s only child. She began a five-year relationship with his father in 1993, after divorcing her first husband, Danny Huston, in 1992.
Sabato was born in 1994, and his parents separated in 1998. Madsen later married actor Nick Holmes in 2020 after they had been together for a decade.
Sabato Jr has two other children: a daughter with former partner Kristin Rossetti Biasi, whom he dated from 2000 to 2007, and a son with his third wife, Cheryl Nunes, whom he married in 2012. They divorced in 2018.
Sabato Jr’s first marriage was to model and actress Alicia Tully Jensen, from 1992 to 1993.
The model-turned-actor is best known for playing Jagger Cates on General Hospital from 1992 to 1995 and Jack Parezi on Melrose Place from 1995 to 1996. He later pursued a career in Republican politics.
He ran unsuccessfully for California’s 26th Congressional District against Democrat Julia Brownley, who defeated him by 24 percentage points in the 2018 general election. Brownley held the seat afterward, although she did not seek reelection for the 2027 term.
Sabato Jr is the son of the acclaimed Italian actor Antonio Sabato Sr, who appeared in numerous classic Spaghetti Westerns and crime thrillers.