Virginia Madsen and Antonio Sabato Jr’s son Jack seen in court after alleged fatal hit-and-run crash… as actor father breaks silence

Virginia Madsen and Antonio Sabato Jr’s son was arraigned on Tuesday after his shock arrest following an alleged fatal hit-and-run crash in Alaska.

Jack Sabato, 32, was arrested in Anchorage on Monday on charges of leaving the scene of an accident without assisting the injured and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in injury or death, a representative for the Alaska Department of Corrections confirmed to the Daily Mail.

The Anchorage Police Department confirmed the victim, identified as 42-year-old Carl Simmonds, was discovered at 5.48am on Monday morning. He was declared dead at the scene. 

Per charging documents obtained by KTUU, Jack told officers that he was heading home after ‘doing late night DoorDashing’ around 5.35am Monday morning when he turned onto the road by a hospital and ‘something suddenly appeared in the road’ and his headlights went out.

Jack knew he hit ‘something’ but did not want to check because he was ‘scared that he did not have insurance,’ according to the documents. 

Heavily tattooed Jack was seen looking downcast while clad in a yellow jumpsuit at the hearing, where his bail was set at $5,000. 

He spoke briefly to confirm he was working as an Amazon delivery driver and answered ‘no’ when asked if he had any money saved up.

Jack is also subject to a no-driving order and an additional $5,000 penalty if he fails to show up for further court dates, per KTUU.

Jack is currently being held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex and is still in custody as of Wednesday afternoon, per online jail records. 

In a statement to TMZ on Tuesday, his father, General Hospital star Sabato Jr, 54, 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 to his son. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Madsen, Sabato Jr and the Anchorage Police Department but has not yet received a response.

Per charging documents obtained by AlaskaNewsSource, police were able to recover video of the collision from the Blood Bank of Alaska and were able to identify the car. 

The car was traced to Jack’s home address, and it was found that the car had ‘fresh damage to the right front corner that was consistent with a pedestrian strike’ according to the charging document. After obtaining a warrant, police seized the car.

At 2.46pm, Jack allegedly called police saying ‘he hit an animal with his Tahoe and wanted to talk to officers,’ according to the charging documents. He allegedly told police he called them because he ‘knew the worst.’

Jack has stayed out of the spotlight in recent years.

He has one acting credit for the 2008 comedy Diminished Capacity, in which his mother starred with Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda.

His only other connection to show business appears to be a 2006 episode of the reality series Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, on which he appeared with Madsen.

Madsen is an acclaimed actress who broke out with her supporting role in David Lynch’s Dune (1984), before filming major roles in the ’90s in the horror classic Candyman (1992), the civil rights courtroom drama Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), among others. 

She earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 2004’s hit comedy Sideways. 

Sabato is the only son of Madsen, who began a five-year relationship with his father in 1993, following her divorce from her first husband, Danny Huston, in 1992. 

Sabato was born in 1994, and his parents separated in 1998. Madsen later married the actor Nick Holmes in 2020 after a decade together.

Sabato Jr has two other children: a daughter he shares with his former partner Kristin Rossetti Biasi, whom he dated from 2000 to 2007, and a son he shares with his third wife, Cheryl Nunes, whom he was married to from 2012 to 2018. 

Sabato Jr’s first marriage was to the model and actress Alicia Tully Jensen from 1992 to 1993. 

The model-turned-actor, who is best known for playing Jagger Cates on General Hospital from 1992 to 1995 and for starring as Jack Parezi on Melrose Place from 1995 to 1996, later aspired to be a Republican politician. 

He led a failed campaign for California’s 26th district Congressional seat against Democrat Julia Brownley, who defeated him in the 2018 general election by 24 percent. Brownley has held the seat ever since, though she did not seek reelection for the 2027 term.

Sabato Jr is the son of famed Italian actor Antonio Sabato Sr, who starred in numerous classic Spaghetti Westerns and crime thrillers.