Editing Clint Eastwood (section)

=== Relationships and children ===
{{Main|Personal life of Clint Eastwood}}
[[File:Locke-Eastwood-1975.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Locke and Eastwood in 1975 during the filming of ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'']]

Twice divorced, Eastwood has had numerous casual and serious relationships of varying length and intensity over his life, many of which overlapped. He has eight known children by six women,<ref name="Parade"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alison Eastwood on Instagram: "I'm not sure there has ever been a picture of all 8 kids together but here it is...🥰 #eastwoods" |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BrPVK5fBWTE/ |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=Instagram |archive-date=September 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930165618/https://www.instagram.com/p/BrPVK5fBWTE/ |url-status=live }}</ref> only half of whom were contemporaneously acknowledged.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Many Women and Many Children of Clint Eastwood – Page 2 – Herald Weekly |url=https://www.heraldweekly.com/the-many-women-and-many-children-of-clint-eastwood |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=Herald Weekly |archive-date=October 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005151453/https://www.heraldweekly.com/the-many-women-and-many-children-of-clint-eastwood/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Clint Eastwood Has 8 Kids - Including One He Didn't Know About For 34 Years |url=https://classiccountrymusic.com/clint-eastwood-has-8-kids-including-one-he-didnt-know-about-for-34-years/ |access-date=October 1, 2022 |website=Classic Country Music |date=May 6, 2018 |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001003124/https://classiccountrymusic.com/clint-eastwood-has-8-kids-including-one-he-didnt-know-about-for-34-years/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Eastwood refuses to confirm his exact number of offspring,<ref name="Children"/> and there have been wide discrepancies in the media regarding the number.<ref name="Children Media"/> He is closed to discussing his families with the media, stating, "they're vulnerable people. I can protect myself, but they can't."<ref name="60 Minutes">Rebecca Leung (January 27, 2004). [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clint-eastwood-improving-with-age/ "Clint Eastwood: Improving with Age"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714151417/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clint-eastwood-improving-with-age/ |date=July 14, 2020 }}. [[CBS News]].</ref> His biographer, [[Patrick McGilligan (biographer)|Patrick McGilligan]], has stated on camera that Eastwood's total number of children is indeterminate and that "one was when he was still in high school".<ref>{{cite interview|series=''Les grands reportages''|title=L'album secret de Clint Eastwood|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YIGhaaKTo|date=2012|time=50:06}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Eastwood's first marriage was to manufacturing secretary-turned-fitness instructor Margaret Neville Johnson in December 1953, having met her on a [[blind date]] the previous May.<ref>[[#Schickel|Schickel]], p. 58</ref> During the courtship, he had an affair that resulted in his daughter Laurie (born 1954), who was [[adopted]] by Clyde and Helen Warren of Seattle.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mahjouri |first=Shakiel |date=December 13, 2018 |title=Clint Eastwood Brings His 'Secret Daughter' To 'The Mule' Premiere |url=https://etcanada.com/news/396503/clint-eastwood-brings-his-secret-daughter-to-the-mule-premiere/ |access-date=September 30, 2022 |website=ET Canada |archive-date=December 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206075737/https://etcanada.com/news/396503/clint-eastwood-brings-his-secret-daughter-to-the-mule-premiere/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwood-love-child-laurie-murray/|title=Clint Eastwood's Secret Love Child Daughter: How She Found Her Dad & He Welcomed Her To Family|first=Jason|last=Brow|date=December 13, 2018|access-date=March 7, 2020|archive-date=July 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714161221/https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwood-love-child-laurie-murray/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/736101415 Engagements] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201011208/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/736101415/ |date=February 1, 2024 }}". ''The News Tribune''. July 1, 1979.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/clint-eastwoods-secret-daughter-revealed-13727544|title=Clint Eastwood's secret daughter revealed and how they finally found each other|first=Frances|last=Kindon|date=December 13, 2018|website=mirror|access-date=March 7, 2020|archive-date=November 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102053325/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/clint-eastwoods-secret-daughter-revealed-13727544|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.insideedition.com/clint-eastwood-appears-public-his-secret-daughter-first-time-49254 Clint Eastwood Appears in Public With His Secret Daughter for the First Time] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101034414/https://www.insideedition.com/clint-eastwood-appears-public-his-secret-daughter-first-time-49254 |date=November 1, 2019 }} ''[[Inside Edition]]''. Aired December 14, 2018.</ref> While the identity of Laurie's biological mother is not public record,<ref name="Parade"/> McGilligan said the mother belonged to a theatre group Eastwood participated in.{{efn|In a December 2018 interview, Eastwood's grandson Lowell Thomas Murray IV said his yet-to-be-identified maternal grandmother "never told Eastwood she was pregnant or spoke to him again. It was clear he had no idea, so to make him look like a bad guy is inaccurate."<ref name="Leonard">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ladieswantmore.com/tom-leonard-is-photo-of-clint-eastwoods-8-children-blended-family-harmony-or-cruel-abandonment/|title=Is photo of Clint Eastwood's 8 children 'blended family harmony' or cruel abandonment?|last=Leonard|first=Tom|work=Ladies Want More |date=January 31, 2019|access-date=March 7, 2020|archive-date=November 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101034422/http://www.ladieswantmore.com/tom-leonard-is-photo-of-clint-eastwoods-8-children-blended-family-harmony-or-cruel-abandonment/|url-status=live}}</ref> This notion is expressly denied by Patrick McGilligan, who insists Eastwood knew full well that he got a woman from Washington state pregnant and—according to McGilligan's "impeccable" sources—had told friends he suspected he might have a child there.<ref name="Leonard"/>}} Eastwood continued having affairs while married to Johnson, including a 1959 to 1973 liaison with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis that produced a daughter, Kimber (born 1964).<ref name="McG139">[[#McGilligan|McGilligan]], p. 139</ref><ref name="independent2">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1259606.html|title= The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|last= Young|first= Josh| date=May 4, 1997|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> Tunis and Eastwood would keep up a "healthy relationship" until her death in 2023.<ref>"[https://nz.news.yahoo.com/clint-eastwood-devastated-death-ex-100052147.html Clint Eastwood 'devastated' by death of ex-mistress Roxanne Tunis aged 93]". ''Yahoo! News''. August 8, 2023.</ref>

Johnson tolerated the [[open marriage]] with Eastwood,<ref>{{cite book|last=Eden|first=Barbara|title=Jeannie Out of the Bottle|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780307886941|url-access=registration|year=2011|publisher=Crown Archetype|isbn=978-0307886958}}</ref><ref>Thompson, p. 45</ref> and eventually they had two children, [[Kyle Eastwood|Kyle]] (born 1968) and [[Alison Eastwood|Alison]] (born 1972).<ref name="Parade"/> In 1975, Eastwood and married actress-director [[Sondra Locke]] began living together;<ref>[[#McGilligan|McGilligan]], p. 262</ref> she had been in a [[marriage of convenience]] since 1967 with Gordon Leigh Anderson, an unemployed homosexual.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/sondra-locke-a-charismatic-performer-defined-by-a-toxic-relationship-with-clint-eastwood|title= Sondra Locke: a charismatic performer defined by a toxic relationship with Clint Eastwood|last=Bradshaw|first= Peter|date=December 14, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/fond-farewell-sondra-locke-1944-2018/ |title=A Fond Farewell to Sondra Locke (1944 – 2018)|last= Harrison|first= John|date=December 16, 2018|work=FilmInk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sondra-locke-dead-oscar-nominated-actress-was-74-1169048 |title=Sondra Locke Dead: Oscar-Nominated Actress Was 74|last=Barnes|first=Mike|date=December 13, 2018|website=Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref>Hiscock, John (September 13, 1996). [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/752035979 {{"'}}Gay secret' of Eastwood case"]. ''The Daily Telegraph''. "Since her affair with Eastwood ended she has lived with her husband, Gordon Anderson, in a house the actor bought him. 'Clint knew about Gordon and admired me for taking care of him,' she said."</ref> Locke claimed that Eastwood sang "She Made Me Monogamous" to her<ref name="independent2"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Radner |first=Hilary |title=The New Woman's Film: Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2017 |isbn=978-1317286486 |author-link=Hilary Radner}}</ref> and confided he had "never been in love before".<ref name="autobio" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.inquisitr.com/5208766/sondra-locke-clint-eastwood-inside-their-tumultuous-hollywood-romance/|title=Sondra Locke & Clint Eastwood: Inside Their Rocky Hollywood Romance|first=Victoria|last=Miller}} ''[[Inquisitr]]'', December 14, 2018.</ref> Eastwood finally divorced Johnson in 1984;<ref name="McG348">[[#McGilligan|McGilligan]], p. 348</ref> Locke, however, would remain married to Anderson until her death in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/sondra-locke-obituary|title= Sondra Locke obituary|last= Gilbey|first= Ryan |date=December 14, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> According to Bill Brown, publisher of the ''[[Carmel Pine Cone]]'', Eastwood considered Locke the love of his life,<ref>{{cite web|first=Sylvia|last=Slaughter|title=Sondra vs. Clint in palimony suit|work=[[The Tennessean|The Sunday Tennessean]]|date=May 28, 1989|page=2-F|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49099067/the-tennessean|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|quote=Don Locke also believes that Clint Eastwood still truly loves his sister, but that he could no longer take her 'addiction' to Gordon. Bill Brown, publisher of ''The Pine Cone'' newspaper in Carmel and a golfing pal of Eastwood's, agrees: 'Clint told me not too long ago that Sondra was the love of his life.'}}</ref> yet he has never addressed her death.<ref>"[https://movieweb.com/what-happened-to-clint-eastwood-sondra-locke What Happened to Clint Eastwood's Forgotten Leading Lady?]". ''MovieWeb''. June 7, 2024.</ref>

In an unpublicized affair, Eastwood sired two legally fatherless<ref name="autobio"/><ref name="Eliot252">[[#Eliot|Eliot]], p. 252</ref><ref name="McG385">[[#McGilligan|McGilligan]], p. 385</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.gq.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/scott-eastwood-on-clint-dad-punched-me-it-was-oldschool/news-story/73a39a27ac66a68106031d5161ed1329|title=Scott Eastwood On Clint: 'Dad Punched Me, It Was Old-School|last=Baidawi|first= Adam |date=August 22, 2016|magazine=GQ}}</ref> children, [[Scott Eastwood|Scott]] (born 1986) and Kathryn (born 1988) with Jacelyn Reeves, a flight attendant.<ref name="parade-jacelyn">{{cite news |url=http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2008/12/clint-eastwood.html |title=Clint Eastwood After 70 |work=[[Parade (magazine)|Parade]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114101721/http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2008/12/clint-eastwood.html |archive-date=November 14, 2012}}</ref> When Locke and Eastwood separated in 1989, Locke filed a [[Palimony in the United States|palimony]] lawsuit and later sued for [[fraud]],<ref>{{cite news|first=Alan|last=Frutkin|title=The man behind Midnight|work=The Advocate|page= 35|date= November 11, 1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rmMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT36}}</ref> reaching a settlement in both cases.<ref name="Guardian"/> During the early-to-mid-1990s, Eastwood had a relationship with actress [[Frances Fisher]] that yielded a daughter, [[Francesca Eastwood|Francesca]] (born 1993).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zimbio.com/Clint+Eastwood+Dating+History/articles/I_00FKNrRaS/Clint+Eastwood+dated+Frances+Fisher |title=Clint Eastwood dated Frances Fisher |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |agency=auFeminin Group |work=Zimbio |access-date=September 26, 2018}}</ref> Eastwood was married for the second time in 1996 to news anchor [[Dina Ruiz]], who gave birth to their daughter Morgan that same year.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Reuters |title=Clint's wife expecting |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/437533223 |work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=September 6, 1996 |access-date=March 7, 2011 |archive-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528032037/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/437533223.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current |id={{ProQuest|437533223}} |url-status=live }}</ref> Ruiz and Eastwood's marriage lasted until 2014.<ref name="Parade"/>

Beginning 2014, Eastwood was seen in company with restaurant hostess Christina Sandera,<ref>{{Cite web|title=5 Things to Know About Clint Eastwood's Girlfriend Christina Sandera|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/5-things-know-clint-eastwoods-205359791.html|access-date=January 23, 2022|website=www.yahoo.com|date=June 5, 2020}}</ref> though neither publicly confirmed a romance.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2015022323609/clint-eastwood-girlfriend-christina-sandera-oscars-date/| title=Clint Eastwood brings new girlfriend Christina Sandera along as his Oscars date|date=February 23, 2015|website=[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blogs/celeb-news/clint-eastwood-brings-girlfriend-christina-sandera-to-the-oscars-042522459.html| title=Clint Eastwood Brings Girlfriend Christina Sandera to the Oscars|date=February 22, 2015|author=Elizabeth Durand Streisand|website=[[Yahoo! News]]}}</ref> Eastwood's spokespeople, managers, and press agents have long denied any knowledge of his life.<ref>Winship, George (August 19, 1993). "[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/794354472 A starlet is born to Eastwood, Fisher]". ''Record Searchlight''. {{"'}}We only represent him on his movies,' Virginia Boyer of Warner Bros. studio said Wednesday. Eastwood's longtime agent, Leonard Hirshan of the William Morris Agency, also denied any knowledge of the star's life."</ref><ref>Jones, Oliver (September 9, 2013). "[https://people.com/celebrity/clint-eastwood-dina-eastwoods-marriage-drama Clint Eastwood & Dina Eastwood's Marriage Drama]". ''People''. "Eastwood's longtime manager, Leonard Hirshan, says he has no knowledge of his client's personal life."</ref> Sandera died of a heart attack in July 2024, aged 61.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |date=2024-07-23 |title=Exclusive {{!}} Clint Eastwood's partner Christina Sandera's cause of death revealed |url=https://nypost.com/2024/07/23/entertainment/clint-eastwoods-partner-christina-sanderas-cause-of-death-revealed/ |access-date=2024-07-24}}</ref> By the fall of that year, Eastwood was in a new relationship, though his girlfriend has not been identified.<ref>{{cite web|last=Eringer|first=Robert|date=October 2, 2024|url=https://roberteringer.substack.com/p/carmel-by-the-sea-bar-and-grill-revue|title=Carmel-by-the-Sea: Bar & Grill Revue|work=Substack}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://knewz.com/clint-eastwood-94-already-has-a-new-girlfriend-just-78-days-after-his-ex-christina-sandera-61-dropped-dead-of-heart-attack|title=Clint Eastwood, 94, 'Already Has A New Girlfriend' After Ex’s Death|publisher=Knewz|date=October 8, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Duncan-Smith|first=Nicole|title='He's Not Wasting Precious Time': 94-Year-Old Clint Eastwood Sparks Controversy After Finding New Love Months After the Sudden Death of His Ex|work=Atlanta Black Star|date=2024-10-10|url=https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/10/10/clint-eastwood-new-love-months-after-longtime-ex-christina-sandera-passed-away}}</ref>