Take, for example, his 14-year romance with partner Paloma Jimenez. The 53-year-old actor shares three kids with the 37-year-old, Mexican-born model, but clearly they’ve never been the in-a-rush-to-get-hitched types. In fact, Diesel told PARADE years ago that he consciously took his time finding Ms. Right. “While I was doing Pacifier, [a 2005 comedy about a Navy SEAL-turned-nanny]… it really started to bring out this desire to have a child,” he told us in 2008. “It took a couple years after that to find the right person and to hopefully be mature enough to be a great father which is really all you want to do.” Well, that and race cars! Keep reading to find out about Diesel’s high-octane, low-key romantic life.
Who is Vin Diesel married to?
The Hollywood hunk has never been married… at least, not that we know of. He’s believed to be domestic partners with Jimenez, but he’s never, shall we say, put a ring on it. And although they were first linked to one another publicly sometime in 2007, it’s unclear how they first met. “I’m not gonna put it out there on a magazine cover like some other actors,” Diesel once said about his desire to keep his private life private. “I come from the Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino code of silence.”
Does Vin Diesel have kids?
Yep—three of them, all with Jimenez. Daughter Hania Riley was born in April 2008, followed by son Vincent Sinclair in 2010. (Vincent Sinclair’s name is sort of a mash-up of Diesel’s given name—Mark Sinclair—and his stage name. In March 2015, the couple welcomed daughter Pauline, who was named in honor of her dad’s Fast friend, Paul Walker, after the actor’s death in a car crash in 2013. Hania Riley also goes by the name Similce and is already following in her dad’s acting footsteps. The two of them both lend their voices to Netflix’s animated Fast and Furious spinoff, Fast and Furious: Spy Racers.
Did Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez date?
Before getting together with Jimenez, Diesel dated his FastandFurious co-star Michelle Rodriguez—who, fittingly, plays his character’s wife in the franchise. Again, little is known about their relationship, other than it seems it probably started on the set of the original Fast and the Furious movie in 2001 and it didn’t appear to last long. A 2002 USAToday article described their already-kaput romance by reporting that Diesel “admits to dating [her] at one time.” Dating Rodriguez may have been what convinced him to only date non-celebrities as a way to ensure his personal life isn’t put in the spotlight. As he once said about “Bennifer”-style celeb romances, “It’s a sucker’s bet.” Next, who is Lupin star Omar Sy? Find out about his wife, kids and more.
