Personal Life
In November 1993, not long after receiving his first contract with the New York Mets at age seventeen, Dotel's father was murdered. Only fifty-three years old, Emilio Dotel entered a taxi cab on his way home from work only to be robbed, strangled, and killed. His body was found a day later 5 miles (8.0 km) from his house in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The late Emilio Dotel and his wife, Maria Magdalena Dotel, had three sons and two daughters.
Octavio Dotel is married to Massiel.
While playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, Octavio Dotel served as a mentor to fellow reliever Marc Rzepczynski.
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