Sabatino attended the University of California, Irvine, where he set a school record for the pole vault of 17½ feet.
Sabatino first gained fame as the evil Chip Roberts/Tony Fenice on the prime-time soap Knots Landing from 1982 to 1983.
After leaving Days of Our Lives, he joined The Bold and the Beautiful as entrepreneur Anthony Armando from November 1993 to July 1995 and December 2006.
Sabatino also portrayed the role of sleazy tabloid editor J. T. Cornell from May to July 2006 on Passions.
On October 5, 2006, Sabatino reprised the role of J. T. Cornell, as part of the "Passions Tabloid Truth" online mystery.