Personal life

Diesel's main car Dodge Charger from Fast & Furious

Diesel is noted for his recognizably deep voice; he has said that his voice broke at around age 15, giving him a mature sounding voice on the telephone.^[27] Around 2001, he dated his Fast and the Furious co-star, Michelle Rodriguez.^[28]

Diesel and his girlfriend, Mexican model Paloma Jimenez, have three children: daughter Hania Riley^[29] (born April 2008),^[30] son Vincent Sinclair (born 2010),^[31] and daughter Pauline, whose undated arrival he announced in March 2015.^[32] She is named in honor of his friend and Fast & Furious franchise co-star, Paul Walker, who died in November 2013.^[33] He also became godfather of Walker's daughter, Meadow Rain Walker. His daughter Hania has an orange belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and judo.^[34]

Diesel said in 2006 that he prefers to maintain his privacy regarding his personal life, stating: "I'm not gonna put it out there on a magazine cover like some other actors ... I come from the Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino code of silence."^[35] He has expressed his love for the Dominican Republic, and how he relates to its multicultural facets.^[36] He is acquainted with its former president, Leonel Fernández, and appeared in one of Fernández's earlier campaign ads. Los Bandoleros, a short film directed by Diesel, was filmed in the Dominican Republic.^[37]