Father of a boy and two girls from his first marriage.
In 2004 he led a campaign to increase the number of organ donations. The result was a record of organ donations in Brazil.
Became a convert to the evangelical church "Renascer em Cristo" a month before his heart transplant.
After having a serious aorta aneurysm, Norton Nascimento received a heart transplant on December 19th 2003 at the Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil.