and Jackie, who separated in 1957. Following the divorce, his mother remarried and gave birth to a daughter, Toni Ann, in 1964.
The celebrity’s father married multiple times, adding three more children to the family—Bryan, Carla, and Dante, who was born in 1997. Carla and Bryan choose to keep their lives private.
Despite growing up in a fragmented family, the actor’s early challenges weren’t limited to relationships with his siblings. In the past, he shared, “I grew up in a really bad household, it was tough. […] Everyone was extremely unhappy with who they were. My mother and father, they certainly weren’t parents.”
His childhood included spending four and a half to five years in a boarding house in Jackson Heights, where his parents dropped him off. He described the place as “transient.” Run by an older woman, the house left him feeling isolated
