Personal Life
He was drafted, but rejected, for military service during the Vietnam War. According to USMC Lt. Col. Arthur Eppley, Fabian was declared 4F (unfit for service) after presenting a doctor's note stating that induction into the army could cause him to develop homosexual tendencies.
He has been married three times—first to Kathleen Regan (1966); then to Kate Netter Forte from 1980 to 1990; and lastly to his current wife, Andrea Patrick, a former Bituminous Coal Queen and Miss Pennsylvania USA, whom he married in 1998. From his first marriage he has a son, screenwriter Christian Forte (born 1969), and a daughter, Julie.
Fabian was arrested for beating his first wife in 1975.
In 1982 a jury found him jointly liable for an accident in a 1978 car race in which he was injured. He received $32,000 in an out of court settlement.
Fabian and his current wife are actively involved in the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association and Fabian has helped raise money for veterans with his Celebrity Golf Tournament in North Carolina. They live on 20 acres (81,000 m2) in Southwestern Pennsylvania in a home which she designed.
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