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American actor

Antonio Sabàto Jr. (born Feb 29, 1972) is an Italian-American model and actor. He maroon to fame in the Decennium as an underwear model purchase Calvin Klein and playing Jagger Cates on the soap work General Hospital from 1992 suck up to 1995. By the early 2000s, most of his acting credits were guest appearances, reality convergence, and budget films. Sabàto ran unsuccessfully as the Republican applicant for U.S. Congress against churchman Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley senseless California's 26th district in greatness 2018 elections.^[1][2]

Early life

Sabàto was constitutional in Rome, Italy on Feb 29, 1972, a Leap Time. His father was Antonio Sabàto Sr., an Italian-born film understanding. His mother, Yvonne, was resident in Prague (then part attain Czechoslovakia), and of Jewish ancestry; her own mother was efficient Jewish Holocaust survivor.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} He has one sibling, a sister dubbed Simonne. Sabàto and his descent moved to the United States from Italy in 1985 swallow he became a naturalized resident of the United States tidy 1996.^[5] He received his embellished school diploma from Palisades Document High School in Los Angeles.^[8] His parents divorced, and rulership mother remarried, to California-based bourgeois George F. Kabouchy, in 1997.^[9][10]

Career

Modeling

Sabàto was featured on the involve of erotic magazine Playgirl take on April 1993.^[11] Represented in Los Angeles by fashion agent Omar Albertto,^[12] Sabàto first gained tend as a Calvin Klein nightwear model in 1996. In 1990, he appeared in Janet Jackson's "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" music video along climb on actor Djimon Hounsou, who bash also a former CK nightwear model represented by Albertto. Behave 2013, Sabàto was named say publicly international celebrity spokesperson for AnastasiaDate, an online mail-order bride site which connects wealthy American higher ranking men with Eastern European women.^[13][14]

Acting

Moving into acting, from 1992 lock 1995 he appeared on nobleness soap operaGeneral Hospital, the body of knowledge fiction series Earth 2, attend to the prime time soap opus Melrose Place. Throughout the immense 1990s, he starred in several TV movies and direct-to-video movies, as well as a reference role in the 1998 see in your mind's eye film The Big Hit. Dull 2003, he played the protagonist's lover Pablo in the film over Testosterone, filmed in Argentina refurbish Sonia Braga, David Sutcliffe, Jennifer Coolidge, Celina Font and Designer Brezicki. From 2005 to 2006, Sabàto played Dante Damiano sequence the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, abstruse in 2008, Sabàto reprised ruler role as Jagger Cates decide the second season of General Hospital: Night Shift.^[15] Sabàto thought an appearance on Bones introduce a bouncer from a Shirt Shore club in season 6, episode 3, "The Maggots march in the Meathead" in 2010.^[16] Slur 2013, he played Father Zaragosa in the television series The League.^{[citation needed]} Sabàto is inactive to direct, produce, and tolerance in an upcoming project callinged Trail Blazers, which reportedly evenhanded the first in the reclaim of other films he on the horizon to produce for his prospective film studio called Trail Blazers Pictures. The film costars Kristy Swanson, Kevin Sorbo, Dean Man, and Scott Baio.^[17]

Other work

In 2005, Sabàto appeared on But Receptacle They Sing?, a celebrity truth singing competition on VH1, climax in 5th place. He competed in the 2008 NBC discussion Celebrity Circus, which he won. He stated on the pretend that both his mother endure her father were circus performers.^[18]

In August 2009, Sabàto starred play a role My Antonio, a reality make known on VH1 in which feminine contestants competed to win cap heart. The show notably featured Sabàto's ex-wife, Tully Jensen, chimp one of the contestants (she came in 3rd place), beam his mother also appeared average the show, providing advice. Rendering show's winner was Brooke Barlow.^[19]

Sabàto and his family appeared disguise ABC'sCelebrity Wife Swap on Jan 31, 2012. His then-fiancé Cheryl Moana Marie Nunes traded room on the show with WWE wrestler Mick Foley's wife Author Foley. Sabàto competed on occasion 19 of Dancing with grandeur Stars in 2014. He was paired with professional dancer Cheryl Burke,^[20] and they finished sheep 8th place.^[21]

Since 2014, Sabàto has served as the host observe a 30-minute long syndicatedhome remodeling show Fix It & Tear apart It.^[22][23]

In 2016, Sabàto was constricted to be a Chippendales choreographer for a special engagement implement June at the Rio Cry out Suite Hotel and Casino interleave Las Vegas.^[24]

Sabàto announced that noteworthy wants to start a Spirit movie studio geared toward rightist content. The new company give something the onceover called Trail Blazers Pictures explode the studio's first upcoming husk, Trail Blazers, is in nobility works for a release prickly 2022.^[25]

Politics

Main article: United States Bedsit of Representatives elections in Calif., 2018 § District 26

Sabàto ran sponsor the 26th district Congressional headquarters in California as a Democratic against incumbent Democrat Julia Brownley. He came in second put out of place in the jungle primary finetune 22.4% of the vote, onward to face Brownley in authority general election.^[26] He lost probity election on November 6, 2018, by 24%.^[2]

Regarding illegal immigration, Sabàto said, "There should be thumb shortcuts for those who don't want to pay or wait".^[27] He supported Trump's wall raid the southern border, saying, "We need a wall."^[28]

Sabàto has unchanging many controversial statements regarding foregoing U.S. President Barack Obama, as well as saying he has "no guts," accusing him of destroying description U.S. economy, and asserting make certain Obama should be arrested contemporary sent to the Guantanamo Bellow detention camp.^[29] The former Politician has also implied that Obama is the reason he nautical port the Democratic Party.^[29]

For several seniority, Sabàto has maintained that, trim his opinion, Obama is call for a Christian but a Muslim.^[30] The first instance of specified a claim came in 2016, when Sabàto, after making spiffy tidy up speech at the Republican Racial Convention, told ABC News "I don't believe he follows interpretation God that I love humbling the Jesus that I love," and "If you follow coronate story, if you read empress book, if you understand pant Obama, I mean, that's gather together a Christian name, is it?"^[31] When pressed for evidence rescue back up his claims, Sabàto answered that it's "in crown heart."^[32]

Two years later, in 2018, he reaffirmed his belief put off Obama is a Muslim just as appearing on The View, dictum "If he's [Obama's] not a- Muslim, we should call him President Barry," and claimed ditch "What I was saying was, he changed his name just now Obama because he followed integrity Islam religion when he was growing up so, I mat that once you're in ramble religion, you stay for depiction rest of your life."^[33][34][35]

Sabàto bona fide Donald Trump for president improve 2016.^[36] He spoke at position 2016 Republican National Convention drag support of the party's hearsay nominee.^[37] Sabàto claimed that afterwards he expressed his support daily Trump, he was blacklisted diverge Hollywood.^[38] He later compared fulfil struggle to find work bind show business with that call upon being Jewish during the Devastation and said celebrities mocked him on the social media site Twitter.^[39][40]

Personal life

Sabàto was married appendix Tully Jensen from 1992 imminent 1993.^[41] He married Cheryl Moana Marie Nunes in 2012.^[42] Class two separated in December 2016^[43] and their divorce was finalized in June 2018.^[44] After Sabàto filed for divorce, Nunes so-called that Sabàto was abusing medicine drugs and had failed run into complete even one month scope a three-month-long drug rehabilitation announcement. Sabàto said that he was addicted to prescription sleep immunodeficiency, not benzodiazepines as Nunes described, but admitted that he confidential a problem with substance flak in the past, specifically lens meth.^[43][45] Sabàto has three children: a son with Virginia Madsen,^[46] a daughter with Kristin Rossetti Biasi,^[46] and a son hear Nunes.^[44]

Sabàto is a Christian on the contrary has, on several occasions, held that he also identifies pass for being Jewish.^{[47][48][49][6]}

Sabàto had testosterone pellets injected into his buttocks primate a treatment for low levels of testosterone.^[50] Sabàto has a sprinkling tattoos, including the Batman logotype on his lower back very last the yin yang symbol bounded by Chinese characters on culminate arm.^[51]

In a December 2018 twinge, Sabàto stated that he added his family were in character process of moving out disseminate California to an undisclosed build in, citing his frustration with nobleness state's progressive policies as say publicly primary reason. In March 2020, Sabàto moved to Florida, allow now works for a artefact company.^[52]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music Videos

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