The son of Virginia Madsen and her former partner Antonio Sabato Jr has been arrested over his alleged connection to a 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 on Tuesday.Sabato is currently being held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex, they added.Madsen and Sabato Jr’s son had a court appearance for his arraignment scheduled on Tuesday afternoon, according to KTUU in Alaska, which first reported his arrest.The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Madsen and Sabato Jr but has not yet received a response. According to the Anchorage Police Department (APD), the victim of the hit-and-run crash was discovered at 5.48am on Monday morning. Virginia Madsen (center) and Antonio Sabato Jr’s (L) son Jack Sabato (R), 32, was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday in connection with a deadly hit-and-run crash, a representative for the Alaska Department of Corrections confirmed to the Daily Mail; Above, Antonio, Virginia and Jack pictured in 2012 in LAThe victim, who was identified as 42-year-old Carl Simmonds, was declared dead at the scene, according to an APD press release. Police said a preliminary investigation had determined that Simmonds had been struck by a vehicle that subsequently fled the scene.Later on Monday, officers discovered the Chevrolet Tahoe that was believed to have hit Simmonds and arrested its alleged driver, Sabato.Police said they originally responded to reports of an unresponsive man, but it’s unclear what evidence led them to locate Sabato and his 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 to his son. Jack Sabato 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. Sabato (Above, with his parents in 1999 in Hollywood) was arrested 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 The victim, identified as Carl Simmonds, 42, was declared dead at the scene, according to the APD. Later on Monday, officers discovered the Chevrolet Tahoe that was believed to have hit Simmonds and arrested its alleged driver, Sabato; Above, Sabato Jr and Madsen in 2004 in LA In a statement to TMZ, Antonio Sabato Jr (Above, in 2018 in LA), 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’ Jack Sabato was born in 1994, and his parents separated in 1998. He Madsen’s only child, while Sabato Jr shares a daughter and another son with two other former partners; Above, Sabato Jr and Madsen in 1998 in LA Madsen is an acclaimed actress who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 2004’s hit comedy Sideways (Above, with costars (L–R) Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Sandra Oh) Sabato Jr is a model-turned actor known for his appearances on General Hospital and Melrose Place in the 1990s, before a failed attempt to reinvent himself as a Republican politician in the current century; Above, at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OhioHis 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.