 He resides in Sedona, Arizona, where he and his then-partner Jude Belanger established the Sedona Now Network, a community television station, in 2003.Scarpelli and Belanger were married in California in 2008, but filed for divorce in 2012.He has remained close friends with "One Day at a Time" co-stars Mackenzie Phillips and Bonnie Franklin until her death in 2013.