Batista was married to a woman named Glenda in the early 1990s and  had  two daughters with her, Keilani (born in 1990) and Athena (born in   1992) before divorcing.   Batista married his second wife Angie on October 13, 1998, yet they   divorced in 2006. Before the age of 40, Batista had already become a   grandfather of two grandsons: Jacob and Aiden by Keilani, his first   daughter.  During his marriage with Angie, Batista became an avid collector of  vintage metal lunch boxes. He admits his favorite is the 1967 Green  Hornet lunch box, as it has Bruce Lee on it. This collection started  when he bought Angie an ET lunchbox and she did not want to break it, so  he bought a second one. Batista revealed that he and Angie were separated in the August 2006 edition of WWE Magazine.  He later revealed, in his autobiography, a relationship with WWE Diva  Melina Perez after the divorce from his wife in 2006, which led to a  brief angle on SmackDown! during a feud with MNM.
In October 2007, his autobiography Batista Unleashed, was released.   In an interview about the book, Batista claims "I didn't want to tell   my story unless it was honest," and that "you have to go through three   sets of lawyers: Simon & Schuster lawyers, WWE lawyers, my lawyers.   Everything now being the way it is, you can be sued for the simplest   thing."  One source of controversy was the mentioning of Chris Benoit, who was  almost completely removed due to the Chris Benoit double murder and  suicide. 






