Antonio Sabàto Jr. (born February 29, 1972) is an Italian-American model, actor, and aspiring politician. Sabàto first found fame in the 1990s, posing as an underwear model for Calvin Klein and appearing as Jagger Cates on the soap opera General Hospital from 1992 to 1995. By the early 2000s, Sabàto's career had started to wane, most of his acting credits attributed to guest appearances, reality TV, and low budget films. In recent years, Sabàto has received attention in the media for his involvement in politics and in 2017, he filed to run for U.S. Congress against incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley in California's 26th district.
Sabàto was born in Rome, the capital city of Italy, on 29 February 1972, a Leap Day. His father is Antonio Sabàto Sr., a film star of Italian heritage born in Sicily. His mother, Yvonne Kabouchy, is a realtor from Prague, and is of Czech and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage; her own mother was a Holocaust survivor. He has one sibling, a sister named Simonne. Sabàto and his family moved to the United States from Italy in 1985 and he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1996. He received his high school diploma from Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles, California. His parents are divorced; his mother remarried California-based businessman George F. Kabouchy in 1997.