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Clint Eastwood has had numerous casual and serious relationships of varying length and intensity over his life, many of which overlapped. He has sired eight known children by six women,<ref>{{cite web|last=Wallace|first=Debra|date=2022-02-02|title= Meet Clint Eastwood's Kids! See the Acting Legend's 8 Children and Their Mothers  |url=https://parade.com/1261389/debrawallace/clint-eastwood-children/|website=Parade}}</ref> only half of whom were contemporaneously acknowledged. Eastwood refuses to confirm his exact number of offspring,<ref name="playboy">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100624225509/http://www.playboy.com/articles/clint-eastwood-1997-playboy%20interview/index.html Clint Eastwood - Interview - Western Movie Star] Bernard Weinraub, ''Playboy'', March 1997</ref> and there have been wide discrepancies in the media regarding the number. His 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 name="auto">{{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 [[Social:Blind date|blind date]] the previous May. 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. While the identity of Laurie's biological mother is not public record, McGilligan said the mother belonged to a theatre group Eastwood participated in. 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). 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 [[Social:Open marriage|open marriage]] with Eastwood, and eventually they had two children, Kyle (born 1968) and Alison (born 1972). In 1975, Eastwood and married actress-director Sondra Locke began living together; she had been in a [[Social:Marriage of convenience|marriage of convenience]] since 1967 with Gordon Leigh Anderson, an unemployed homosexual. Locke claimed that Eastwood sang "She made me monogamous" to her and confided he had "never been in love before."<ref>{{cite book|last=Radner|first=Hilary|title=The New Woman's Film: Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks|year=2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1317286486}}</ref> Nine years into their cohabitation, Eastwood officially divorced Johnson; Locke, however, would remain married to Anderson until her death in 2018.

In an unpublicized affair, Eastwood sired two legally fatherless children, Scott (born 1986) and Kathryn (born 1988) with Jacelyn Reeves, a flight attendant. When Locke and Eastwood separated in 1989, Locke filed a palimony lawsuit and later sued for [[Finance:Fraud|fraud]], reaching a settlement in both cases.

During the early-to-mid-1990s, Eastwood had a relationship with actress Frances Fisher that produced a daughter, Francesca (born 1993). Eastwood was married for the second time in 1996 to news anchor Dina Ruiz, who gave birth to their daughter Morgan that same year. Ruiz and Eastwood's marriage lasted until 2014. He has been seen with other women since then.

In a 2013 statement to ''People'', Eastwood's longtime manager, Leonard Hirshan, professed to have no knowledge of his client's personal life.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://people.com/celebrity/clint-eastwood-dina-eastwoods-marriage-drama/| title= Clint Eastwood & Dina Eastwood's Marriage Drama|date=September 9, 2013|author=Oliver Jones |website=People}}</ref>

== Early sexual relationships ==

During an interview for his sole authorized biography, Eastwood told film historian Richard Schickel that he lost his virginity to a neighbor when he was 14 years old.<ref>Schickel, p. 34</ref> At age 19, Eastwood dated a schoolteacher in her 20s who stalked him and threatened to commit suicide after he broke up with her.<ref>{{cite news|title=For the love of Clint|first=Ginny|last=Dougary|date=April 25, 1998|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=19}}</ref> Reflecting upon this relationship, Eastwood told ''Us Weekly'' in 1987: "There was just a little misinterpretation about how serious the whole thing was."<ref>"Clint Eastwood: The ''Us'' Interview". ''Us Weekly''. January 26, 1987.</ref>

Eastwood acknowledged to Schickel that his conquests during these years were "numerous,"<ref>Schickel, p. 39</ref> though none are named in the book.

== Marriage to Margaret Johnson ==

=== First extramarital affairs and daughter placed for adoption ===

In early spring 1953,<ref name="McG53">McGilligan, p. 53</ref> Eastwood met Margaret Neville "Maggie" Johnson, a secretary for auto-parts suppliers Industria Americana, on a [[Social:Blind date|blind date]] in the San Francisco area.<ref>Schickel, ''Clint Eastwood'', p. 58</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Munn |first=Michael |title=Clint Eastwood: Hollywood's Loner |publisher=Robson |year=1992 |location=London |isbn=978-0-86051-790-0}}</ref>{{rp|19}}<ref name="McG55">McGilligan, p. 55</ref> Johnson was scheduled to graduate from U.C. Berkeley that June. In the meantime, Eastwood left for Seattle, where "to please a girl he dug, he joined a Little Theatre group."<ref>McGilligan, p. 54</ref> According to biographer Patrick McGilligan, the unnamed young woman became pregnant by Eastwood and placed their child, a girl, for adoption.<ref name="McG500">McGilligan, p. 500</ref> Daughter Laurie Murray (a.k.a. Laurie Alison Warren;<ref name=murray>"[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/736101415 Engagements]". ''The News Tribune''. July 1, 1979. p. D-5.</ref> born February 11, 1954)<ref>"[https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/clint-eastwoods-kids-meet-the-8-eastwood-children/ Clint Eastwood Is Extremely Close With His Kids! Meet the ‘Gran Torino’ Star’s 8 Children]". ''Closer''. May 2, 2022.</ref> was adopted by Clyde Elwin Warren and the former Helen I. Smith.<ref name=murray/><ref>[https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwood-love-child-laurie-murray Clint Eastwood’s Secret Love Child Daughter: How She Found Her Dad & He Welcomed Her To Family]</ref><ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/celebrity/revealed-the-touching-story-of-clint-eastwoods-secret-daughter-64-who-was-put-up-for-adoption-by-her-mother-but-who-tracked-down-the-hollywood-legend-30-years-ago-now-they-share-vacations-weddings-and-a-passion-for-golf/ar-BBQTswb  Revealed: The touching story of Clint Eastwood's secret daughter, 64, who was put up for adoption by her mother but who tracked down the Hollywood legend 30 years ago. Now they share vacations, weddings and a passion for golf]</ref> Her existence went entirely unremarked in the press until 2018, when she was publicly acknowledged as Eastwood's child for the first time at age 64.<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] ''Inside Edition''. December 14, 2018.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Revela Clint Eastwood tener hija secreta|date=December 16, 2018|work=El Paso Times|page=3B}}</ref>{{efn|Murray had actually been photographed with Eastwood many years before she identified herself to the media, accompanying him, for instance, to the 2004 Academy Awards.<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=2022-09-30 |website=www.heraldweekly.com}}</ref>}} According to her son Lowell Thomas Murray IV, Laurie's biological mother—whose identity is not publicly known<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/see-clint-eastwoods-grandson-whos-140142376.html|title=See Clint Eastwood's Grandson, Who's a Trainer&Reality TV Star|first=Lia|last=Beck|date=October 21, 2021|work=Yahoo Life}}</ref>—"never told Eastwood she was pregnant or spoke to him again.”<ref>[https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/clint-eastwoods-kids-meet-the-8-eastwood-children Clint Eastwood Hits The Red Carpet With His Adult Kids — Meet The 8 Eastwood Children!]</ref> On the contrary, McGilligan said that Eastwood had discussed the woman's pregnancy with family and friends, then "handed money over to the woman and left for L.A."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=w6i25jxBIwcC&pg=PA54 McGilligan, pp. 54-55]</ref>

Meanwhile, Johnson announced her engagement to Eastwood in October 1953.<ref>"Alpha Delta Pi Sisters Told Of Betrothal", ''Oakland Tribune'', October 28, 1953</ref> They married on December 19 in Pasadena, less than eight weeks before his unidentified Seattle girlfriend gave birth to Laurie.<ref name="McG55"/> Laurie would go on to work as an elementary grade school teacher in South Kitsap School District.<ref name=murray/>

Eastwood's inexplicable marriage to Johnson had further problems. Schickel wrote, "He thought they were too young, not well enough established."<ref>Schickel, p. 64</ref> Actress Mamie Van Doren later reported she had an affair with Eastwood while working on the film ''Star in the Dust'' in 1955.<ref>Eliot, p. 33</ref> She starred and he played an uncredited bit role.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/archive/chatter-vol-25-no-21|title=Chatter|work=People|first=Michael|last=Neill|date=May 26, 1986|access-date=June 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611020109/https://people.com/archive/chatter-vol-25-no-21/|archive-date=June 11, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

=== Relationship with Roxanne Tunis===
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In 1959 during the second season of ''Rawhide'', Eastwood began a long-lasting affair (reportedly 14 years)<ref name="makinghisday"/> with dancer and  stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis. She was also married yet separated.{{efn|Tunis had married Jack Watson Scheck Jr. in 1956.<ref>"Front Page Social Stories Including Marriages and Engagements of Regional Young Women". ''The Scrantonian''. August 26, 1956. p. 27.</ref> She divorced him in December 1984, a month after Eastwood's own divorce and 10 months after the birth of Tunis and Eastwood's grandson, Clinton Gaddie (now Clint McCartney).<ref>California, Divorce Index 1966–1984</ref>}} Their relationship resulted in Eastwood's earliest legal child, daughter Kimber Eastwood (born Kimber Tunis; June 17, 1964).<ref name="McG139">McGilligan, p. 139</ref><ref name="independent2">[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1259606.html The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922150612/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1259606.html |date=2017-09-22 }}. Young, Josh (May 4, 1997). ''The Independent''.</ref> Kimber's existence was kept secret from the public until July 1989, when the ''National Enquirer'' revealed her identity.<ref name="McG455">McGilligan, p. 455</ref> Her birth certificate does list Eastwood as the father, however.<ref name="McG139"/>

Biographer Marc Eliot wrote that Eastwood's wife Johnson may not have known about the baby at the time: "It is difficult to say for sure that she actually knew about the baby, although it would have been nearly impossible for her not to. Everyone on the set knew ... and it is simply too difficult to keep a secret like that when the mother and the illegitimate child live in the same small town, especially when that small town is Hollywood."<ref>Eliot, p. 69</ref> The source for the 1989 ''Enquirer'' article that originally broke the story claimed Johnson was aware of Kimber's existence at all times and even met Roxanne Tunis in person when making an unannounced visit to the set of ''Breezy'' in 1972.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Clint's Bombshell Secret – He Has Illegitimate Daughter & Grandson|first1=Mike|last1=Kerrigan|first2=Brian|last2=Williams|date= July 11, 1989|journal=National Enquirer}}</ref> Actress Barbara Eden, a onetime ''Rawhide'' guest star and witness to the affair with Tunis, said Eastwood and Johnson "...conducted a somewhat [[Social:Open marriage|open marriage]]."<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> Eastwood hinted as much in a 1971 interview, telling reporter Tim Chadwick: "We don't believe in togetherness."<ref>Interview with Tim Chadwick, 1971</ref>

In 1992, Johnson granted a rare interview with biographer Douglas Thompson, talking generally about her ex-husband and his career, but had no comment when asked about Tunis.<ref name="Thompson">{{cite book|author=Douglas Thompson|title= Clint Eastwood: Billion Dollar Man|year=2005|publisher=John Blake|isbn=1857825721}}</ref> Neither Tunis nor any of her nine siblings have ever spoken to the media. However, sources close to the Tunis family agreed to be interviewed anonymously for McGilligan's book in the late 1990s. According to them, "Clint wanted to have a baby with his mistress ... When she became pregnant, Clint was ecstatic."<ref name="McG139"/> This directly contradicts the earlier Schickel biography of 1996, which spun the tale that Eastwood didn't even realize Tunis was pregnant until after Kimber had been born.<ref name="McG139"/>

For her part, Kimber has answered media inquiries with candor. In 1989, amid revelations of her existence, she told the ''Sunday Mirror'': "Yes, Clint Eastwood is my father. I must speak to him about this. I am partly shocked and partly glad it is all out in the open."<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/808610976 Dirty Harry's Secret Family]". ''Sunday Mirror''. July 2, 1989.</ref> In 1990, she told the ''Manchester Evening News'': "I'm cut off completely. He's furious with me. He's disowned me and his grandson."<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/936501645 Dumped by dad Clint]". ''Manchester Evening News''. May 5, 1990.</ref> Later that year, Eastwood refused to attend his daughter's wedding to Doug McCartney.<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/808646110 Cold-heart Clint]". ''Sunday Mirror''. June 10, 1990.</ref> Throughout the tabloid hubbub he maintained complete silence; as a result, major publications like ''People'' magazine still denied Kimber's existence as late as 1993.<ref>"[https://people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20106160,00.html Passages]". ''People''. August 30, 1993.</ref>

Roxanne Tunis passed away on June 23, 2023 after a brief illness.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/hollywood/clint-eastwoods-ex-mistress-passes-away-at-93-5-things-to-know-about-roxanne-tunis-1234709|title=Clint Eastwood's ex-mistress passes away at 93: 5 things to know about Roxanne Tunis|publisher=Pinkvilla|last=Bagaria|first=Avnii|date=August 8, 2023|access-date=August 8, 2023}}</ref> Eastwood was devastated by the loss, their daughter reported.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/08/roxanne-tunis-dead-clint-eastwoods-ex-mistress-dies-aged-93-19296155|title=Clint Eastwood’s ex-mistress Roxanne Tunis, who had 14-year affair with Hollywood icon, dies aged 93|publisher=Metro News|last=Akinwumi|first=Stella|date=August 8, 2023|access-date=August 8, 2023}}</ref> Tunis has been described posthumously as "one of Clint’s true loves."<ref>Gelhoren, Giovana (August 10, 2023). "[https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2824648/clint-eastwood-longtime-mistress-mourning Clint Eastwood’s Reaction to His Former Mistress’ Death Shows How Strong Their Connection Was]". ''SheKnows''.</ref>

=== Other affairs and reconciliation ===

Ria Brown, the biographer of competitive swimmer Anita Lhoest, claims Lhoest terminated a pregnancy by Eastwood without consulting him at one point during their late 1950s to early 1960s affair.<ref>From unpublished manuscript ''Take Ten'' (The Life Story of Anita Lhoest) by Ria Brown, cited in Acknowledgements section of McGilligan biography</ref><ref>McGilligan, p. 121</ref> Restaurant critic Gael Greene described an affair with Eastwood that started when she was assigned to interview him on the set of 1970's ''Two Mules for Sister Sara''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.net/clint-eastwood/news/food-critic-reveals-she-bedded-hunky-clint_10_02_2006|title=Food Critic Reveals She Bedded Hunky Clint|date=February 10, 2006|access-date=January 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110160814/http://www.contactmusic.net/clint-eastwood/news/food-critic-reveals-she-bedded-hunky-clint_10_02_2006|archive-date=January 10, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> A fling with French model Cathy Reghin around the same time was one of his few extramarital involvements to receive press coverage of any kind during the fact. Another French model, Danielle Cotet, claimed a two-year relationship with Eastwood and got a walk-on role in ''Paint Your Wagon'',<ref>{{cite book|last=McGee|first=Garry|title=Breathless|publisher= BearManor Media|year= 2008|isbn=978-1593931278}}</ref> unbeknownst to the film's lead actress Jean Seberg, with whom Eastwood began an on-set affair that lasted about five months.<ref>McGilligan, p. 175</ref> According to McGilligan, Eastwood had many other affairs, including with co-stars Inger Stevens<ref>McGilligan, p. 163</ref> (''Hang 'Em High'') and Jo Ann Harris<ref>McGilligan, p. 188</ref> (''The Beguiled''), as well as actresses Jill Banner,<ref>McGilligan, p. 118</ref> Catherine Deneuve<ref>McGilligan, p. 151</ref> and Susan St. James,<ref>McGilligan, p. 181</ref> columnist Bridget Byrne,<ref name="McGilligan, p. 228">McGilligan, p. 228</ref> socialite Joan Lundberg Hitchcock<ref>McGilligan, p. 271</ref> and singer Keely Smith<ref>McGilligan, p. 119</ref> while married to Johnson, who, after a [[Social:Trial separation|trial separation]] and a lingering bout of [[Medicine:Hepatitis|hepatitis]] during the mid-1960s, expressed desire to reconcile and start a family.<ref name="McGilligan, p. 228"/> They had two children together: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972).<ref name="McG484">McGilligan, p. 484</ref>

== Relationship with Sondra Locke ==
[[File:Sondra Locke and Clint Eastwood 1975 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Locke and Eastwood in Wahweap, Arizona, 1975, while filming ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'']]

In 1972, Eastwood met married actress (later director) Sondra Locke at a meeting set up by mutual friend Jo Heims on the Universal Studios Lot.<ref>{{cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Daniel |title=Clint Eastwood: Film-Maker |publisher=B. T. Batsford |year=1996 |isbn=0-7134-7839-X |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/clinteastwood00dani }}</ref> Her lifestyle was congruent to his, as she had married for societal purposes while conducting a succession of affairs that were withheld from public view.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kirk Henderson|title=Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six|year=2020|publisher=Austin Macauley Publishers|isbn=978-1643781655}}</ref> The two began living together during the production of ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'' in Page, Arizona, in October 1975,<ref>McGilligan, p. 262</ref> by which time, according to Locke, "He had told me that there was no real relationship left between him and Maggie."<ref name="autobio">{{cite book|last=Locke|first=Sondra|title= The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly – A Hollywood Journey|publisher= William Morrow and Company|year= 1997|isbn=978-0-688-15462-2}}</ref> Locke wrote in her autobiography, "Clint seemed astonished at his need for me, even admitting that he'd never been faithful to one woman — because he'd 'never been in love before,' he confided. He even made up a song about it: 'She made me monogamous'. That flattered and delighted me. I would never doubt his faithfulness and his love for me."<ref name="autobio"/>
[[File:Eastwood Locke The Gauntlet 1977.jpg|thumb|With Locke in ''The Gauntlet'' (1977)]]

After ''Josey'' wrapped, Locke moved into the Sherman Oaks house Eastwood had once shared with Johnson (who by then lived full-time in Pebble Beach),<ref name="McGilligan, p. 288">McGilligan, p. 288</ref> but felt uncomfortable there because "psychologically, it would always be Maggie's."<ref name="autobio"/> "Finally I told Clint that I couldn't live there any longer," wrote Locke.<ref name="autobio"/> The couple moved to Bel-Air in a fixer-upper that took three years to renovate.<ref>McGilligan, p. 314</ref> In the interim they shuttled between homes in Tiburon, California and Sun Valley, Idaho, as well as the Rising River Ranch which Eastwood bought from Bing Crosby's estate.<ref name="autobio"/><ref>[http://imn.stparchive.com/Archive/IMN/IMN11301978P01.php Eastwood buys ranch] ''Inter Mountain News'', November 30, 1978</ref> Locke had two abortions and then a tubal ligation during the late 1970s.<ref name="autobio"/> She was quite reluctant to have the second abortion. She later said, "I couldn't help but think that that baby, with both Clint's and my best qualities, would be extraordinary."<ref name="autobio"/> Johnson made no secret of her dislike for Locke, even though the two women never met. "Maggie placed severe rules on my relationship with the kids. Apparently, she never forgave me. [...] After she learned that Clint had taken me onto her property to show me a baby deer that had just been born there, she laid down a rule that I was never to be allowed there again. I was not even allowed to phone the Pebble Beach house."<ref name="autobio"/>

=== Divorce from Johnson ===

In late 1978, Johnson retained an attorney to file for legal separation from Eastwood.<ref name="McGilligan, p. 288"/> Earlier that year she had finally accepted the fact that Locke "was not like any of his affairs of their past."<ref name="autobio"/> Divorce papers, however, would not be filed until May 18, 1984.<ref>"Actor sued for divorce". ''Ukiah Daily Journal.'' Ukiah, California. May 20, 1984. p. 21.</ref> The divorce was finalized on November 19,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPLK-J4C|title="California Divorce Index, 1966-1984," database, FamilySearch|website=FamilySearch }}</ref> with Johnson receiving a straight cash payment reported to be between $25 and $30&nbsp;million.<ref name="McG348">McGilligan, p. 348</ref>

For her part, Locke never divorced Gordon Anderson, her lawful husband since 1967.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF82D6894FA344&p_field_direct-0=document_id|title=Locke Married?|work=The Palm Beach Post|date=May 9, 1989|access-date=January 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="annonline.com">[http://www.annonline.com/interviews/971111/biography.html "Locke Biography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707145247/http://www.annonline.com/interviews/971111/biography.html |date=July 7, 2011 }}, annoline.com; retrieved October 7, 2012.</ref> Anderson, a sculptor and former stage actor, was gay and resided with his younger boyfriend John McKee in a West Hollywood home purchased by Eastwood.<ref name="independent2" /> The Locke/Anderson union had always been a marriage of convenience only and was never consummated, according to court testimony.<ref>[https://www.filmink.com.au/fond-farewell-sondra-locke-1944-2018/ A Fond Farewell to Sondra Locke (1944 – 2018)] Harrison, John (December 16, 2018). ''FilmInk''.</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/sondra-locke-obituary Sondra Locke obituary] Gilbey, Ryan (December 14, 2018). ''The Guardian''.</ref> Locke said of the unorthodox arrangement: "I truly believed that Clint and I did not need papers to validate the commitments we had made to each other."<ref name="autobio"/>

{{Quote box|width=25em|align=right|quote=I believe Clint knows who he is; he just doesn’t ''like'' who he is. I do believe that Clint loved me as much as he is capable of love, and in the first eight or so years together he really ''wanted'' to be the man he knew I saw in him. I think he tried very hard, but eventually one’s nature cannot change.|source=—Sondra Locke on Eastwood (2013)<ref name="wandrinstar">{{cite web|url=https://thewandrinstar.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/exclusive-interview-with-sondra-locke-magic-in-films-and-the-real-world-en/|title=Exclusive Interview with Sondra Locke: Magic in films and the real world|first=David|last=Furtado|date=October 19, 2013|access-date=June 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008080248/https://thewandrinstar.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/exclusive-interview-with-sondra-locke-magic-in-films-and-the-real-world-en/|archive-date=October 8, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>}}

Eastwood and Locke reteamed onscreen for ''The Gauntlet'', ''Every Which Way but Loose'', ''Bronco Billy'', ''Any Which Way You Can'' and ''Sudden Impact''. According to former longtime associate Fritz Manes, Eastwood was devoted to her between 1976 and 1980 at the least, but discreetly kept up several "maintenance relationships" (such as with Tunis)<ref name="McG353">McGilligan, p. 353</ref> during that period. "I marveled at it. It was absolute total, blind love," Manes said.<ref name="McG353"/> According to Schickel, the relationship began to disintegrate when Locke chose to remain married to Anderson after Eastwood had divorced Johnson.<ref>Schickel, ''Clint Eastwood'', page 408.</ref> Locke said she would've been willing to divorce Anderson if Eastwood agreed to go to [[Social:Couples therapy|couples therapy]] with her, but he refused.<ref name="autobio"/>

===Affairs with Jacelyn Reeves and others===

McGilligan claims Eastwood returned to his "habitual womanizing" in the early 1980s, becoming involved with story analyst Megan Rose,<ref name="McG353"/> actress Jamie Rose<ref>McGilligan, p. 364</ref> (who played a bit part in ''Tightrope''), animal rights activist Jane Brolin (who had intermittent liaisons with Eastwood between the early 1960s and late 1980s),<ref>McGilligan, p. 457</ref> and Jacelyn Reeves, a stewardess he reputedly met at his restaurant in Carmel, The Hog's Breath Inn.<ref>McGilligan, p. 315</ref>

=== Children with Reeves  ===

Eastwood was still cohabiting with Locke when he conceived two children with Reeves:<ref name="parade-jacelyn">{{cite news| url= http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2008/12/clint-eastwood.html |title= Clint Eastwood After 70| work=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> son Scott Eastwood (born Scott Reeves; March 21, 1986)<ref name="Eliot226">Eliot, p. 226</ref><ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scott-eastwood-interview-how-clints-son-bounced-back-after-being-rejected-for-role-in-fathers-film-10314191.html |title=Scott Eastwood interview: How Clint's son bounced back after being rejected for role in 'American Sniper'|first=Tom |last=Teodorczuk |date=June 12, 2015 |access-date= April 11, 2015|work=The Independent | location =UK|archive-date= January 30, 2016| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160130160216/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scott-eastwood-interview-how-clints-son-bounced-back-after-being-rejected-for-role-in-fathers-film-10314191.html | url-status=live}}</ref> and daughter Kathryn Eastwood (born Kathryn Reeves; February 2, 1988).<ref>Eliot, p. 6</ref>  The birth certificates for both children read "father declined."<ref name="Eliot252">Eliot, p. 252</ref> Eastwood's affair with Reeves was not reported anywhere until an exposé article was published in the ''Star'' tabloid in 1990.<ref name="star">{{cite journal|title=Clint Eastwood's Secret 4-Year Love Comes Out of Hiding|first1=Bob|last1=Smith|first2=Stephen|last2=Viens|date= February 27, 1990|journal=Star}}</ref><ref name="McG370">McGilligan, p. 370</ref> Reeves reportedly stated, "Some family members tell me to file a paternity suit against Clint, but I don't want to."<ref name="star"/> The children's existence continued to be ignored by mainstream news sources through the mid-2000s.<ref>The Reeves children are not included in the count, for example, at {{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20143212,00.html|title=Passages|work=People|first=Jeremy|last=Helligar|date=January 13, 1997|access-date=March 25, 2014|quote=News anchor Dina Ruiz, 31, more than made husband Clint Eastwood's day when she gave birth to the couple's first child, an 8-lb. 4-oz. girl named Morgan, on Dec. 12 in Los Angeles. This is the 66-year-old actor-director's fifth child....|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713212227/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20143212,00.html|archive-date=July 13, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

=== Breakup with Locke ===

Eastwood's relationship with Locke (at the time unaware of his infidelities, by her own account)<ref name="autobio"/> ended acrimoniously in April 1989, and the post-breakup litigation dragged on for a decade. Locke filed a palimony lawsuit against him after he changed the locks on their home and moved her possessions into storage when she was at work filming her second directorial feature, ''Impulse''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-after-the-loving-counting-the-cost-vol-32-no-6|title=When Harry Left Sondra|date=7 August 1989|work=People|access-date=1 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526185824/https://people.com/archive/cover-story-after-the-loving-counting-the-cost-vol-32-no-6/|archive-date=26 May 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In court, Eastwood [[Philosophy:Minimisation (psychology)|downplayed]] the intensity of their relationship. He described Locke as a "roommate" before quickly redescribing her as a "part-time roommate."<ref name="autobio"/><ref>McGilligan, p. 446</ref> Bill Brown, publisher of the ''Carmel Pine Cone'' newspaper and a golfing pal of Eastwood's, said despite the public animosity, "Clint told me not too long ago that Sondra was the love of his life."<ref name="Tennessean">{{cite news|last=Slaughter|first=Sylvia|title=Sondra vs. Clint in palimony suit|work=The Tennessean|date=May 28, 1989|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49099067/the-tennessean/}}</ref> Locke's estranged half-brother Donald told ''The Tennessean'' that Eastwood still truly loved her, but could no longer take her "addiction" to husband Gordon Anderson.<ref name="Tennessean"/>

Anticipating that Eastwood was going to misrepresent the marriage, Locke asked Anderson to surrender all claims on any of her assets that as her legal spouse he was entitled to.<ref>{{cite book|author=Boze Hadleigh|title=Celebrity Feuds! The Cattiest Rows, Spats, and Tiffs Ever Recorded|year=1999|publisher=Taylor Trade Publishing|isbn=9781461708582|page=27}}</ref> "In an extraordinary gesture of love and faith in me, Gordon signed away everything without hesitation."<ref name="autobio"/> During the proceedings, an investigative journalist contacted Locke and informed her of Eastwood's other family. "I spoke with the nurse in the delivery room, and she confirmed that they are Clint's children. I'll send copies of the birth certificates to you and a photo of Jacelyn, if you want them," Locke quoted the informant.<ref name="autobio"/> "My mind was still searching to get all his actions lined up. For at least the last four years, Clint had been living this double life, going between me and this other woman, and ''having children with her''. Two babies had been born during the last three years of our relationship, and they weren't mine."<ref name="autobio"/>

As the case progressed, Locke developed breast cancer and said the treatments sapped her will to fight.<ref name="independent2" /> She dropped her suit in November 1990 in exchange for a settlement package that included a lump sum plus monthly payments from Eastwood and a $1.5 million directing deal at Warner Bros.,<ref>Schickel, p. 441</ref> but sued him again for [[Finance:Fraud|fraud]] in 1995 when she became convinced the deal was a sham,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/33559/eastwood-s-ex-lover-says-he-torpedoed-her-career|title=Eastwood's Ex-Lover Says He Torpedoed Her Career|work=E! News|first=Marcus|last=Errico|date=September 11, 1996|access-date=November 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104173628/http://www.eonline.com/news/33559/eastwood-s-ex-lover-says-he-torpedoed-her-career|archive-date=November 4, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="FraudSue">{{cite news|last=O'Neill|first=Ann W.|title=Sondra Locke Suing Clint Eastwood|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/293385865.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current|date=September 18, 1996|access-date=April 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045516/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/293385865.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current|archive-date=August 8, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> finally settling out of court in September 1996.<ref>Errico, Marcus (September 24, 1996). [http://www.eonline.com/news/33601/clint-eastwood-pays-off-sondra-locke "Clint Eastwood Pays Off Sondra Locke"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019112835/http://www.eonline.com/news/33601/clint-eastwood-pays-off-sondra-locke |date=2017-10-19 }}. ''E! News''.</ref><ref name="Settle">{{cite news|title=Eastwood Settles with Sondra Locke|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&p_action=search&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB32DC62E746ACD&p_field_direct-0=document_id |date=September 25, 1996|access-date=April 10, 2013}}</ref>

Eastwood was listed as a material witness for Locke's separate pending action against Warner Bros., which alleged that the studio conspired with him to sabotage her directorial career, but in May 1999 that lawsuit too was settled, ending the legal saga.<ref>O'Neill, Ann W. (May 23, 1999). [http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/23/local/me-40206 "Settlement Could Make Locke's Day"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729194110/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/23/local/me-40206 |date=2018-07-29 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/EASTWOOD'S+EX+SETTLES+WITH+WARNER+BROS-a083612488 |author=Huffaker, Donna |title=Eastwood's ex settles with Warner Bros. |work=Los Angeles Daily News}}</ref><ref name="Scoop">Scoop (July 5, 1999). [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20128608,00.html The Battle's Over for Eastwood's Ex ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424215518/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20128608,00.html |date=2016-04-24 }}. ''People''.</ref> Over the following years, Locke made discrediting comments about Eastwood.<ref name="wandrinstar"/> She died in 2018, aged 74.{{efn|Locke was born in 1944, but claimed dates two to twelve years later.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sondra Locke obituary|work=The Times|date=December 15, 2018|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sondra-locke-obituary-c0fqztgr5}}</ref><ref>''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' at the ''[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23860 American Film Institute Catalog]''</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Starring Sondra Locke|work=Turner Classic Movies|date=March 18, 2022|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/021590}}</ref> The pretense infected almost every published mention of Locke before the growth of [[Philosophy:Fact-checking|fact-checking]] very late in her life, with the result that it allowed false narratives about "giving up her childbearing years" for Eastwood to flourish.<ref>{{cite news|title=Making Her Day|date=May 20, 1989|work=The Vancouver Sun|page=C14}}</ref>}} At the time of her death, Locke had been legally married to Anderson for 51 years, leaving an estate worth $20 million.<ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Dalton|title=Oscar-nominated actress Sondra Locke dies at 74|date=December 13, 2018|url=https://apnews.com/5faad1c691354c2bb57dbcba4f849f65|website=AP news}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Alva|last=Yaffe|title=Sondra Locke: A Talented Actress Defined By Her Relationship with Clint Eastwood|url=https://historybyday.com/pop-culture/sondra-locke-a-talented-actress-defined-by-her-relationship-with-clint-eastwood/25/|website=History by Day}}</ref>

== Casual dating ==

Immediately following his split from Locke, Eastwood dated Barbra Streisand.<ref>Irv Kupcinet (May 2, 1989). "Kup's Column". ''Chicago Sun-Times''.</ref> Other  female companions during 1989 included ''White Hunter, Black Heart'' co-star Marisa Berenson, Carmel mayor Jean Grace, actress Dani Crayne and model Barbara Minty, widow of Steve McQueen.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moser|first=Margaret|title=Movie Stars Do the Dumbest Things|date=2011|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1429978378|page=83}}</ref>

== Daughter with Frances Fisher ==

Eastwood's next major relationship was with Frances Fisher, an actress he had met on the set of ''Pink Cadillac'' in October 1988.<ref name="McG434">McGilligan, p. 434</ref> The two quietly enjoyed a non-exclusive, intermittent affair for two years before going public with their romance in late 1990.<ref>Lynda Hirsch, "New Lucy, Desi are soaps veterans", ''The Times'', October 14, 1990</ref> Fisher retrospectively said of dating Eastwood: "I simply felt that this was it, the big one. I had no idea that every woman he meets probably feels as I did."<ref name="thefreelibrary">{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/I+was+giving+birth,+scared+and+five+weeks+early,+and+Clint+was...-a061133868|title=I was giving birth, scared and five weeks early, and Clint was signing his autograph for a nurse!; THE WOMAN WHO LIVED WITH DIRTY HARRY FOR SIX YEARS TELLS WHY SHE HAD TO LEAVE HIM. - Free Online Library|website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref> They co-starred in ''Unforgiven'', and had a daughter, Francesca Eastwood (born Francesca Fisher-Eastwood; August 7, 1993), on the anniversary of that film's release.<ref name="Eliot289">Eliot, p. 289</ref> The birth of Francesca marked the first time Eastwood was present for one of his children's birth.<ref name="McG484"/> Nevertheless, he made Fisher keep her pregnancy a secret until her last trimester, reasoning, "I don't want that kinda thing taking attention away from my Oscar race!"<ref name="autobio"/>

Despite being legally free to wed, the couple did not marry. About a month before their daughter was born, according to McGilligan, Eastwood was confronted with the claims of a 39-year-old woman from Kent, Washington who had researched her adoption and ascertained that he was her biological father.<ref name="McG500"/> Eastwood has never responded to the story.<ref name="Eliot336">Eliot, p. 336</ref> Another strain on the relationship came when Fisher found out—not through him—about yet another secret brood with Jacelyn Reeves.<ref name="independent2"/> Eastwood and Fisher ended their relationship in January 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1995-09-15/entertainment/ca-46085_1_frances-fisher|title=How's Life After Clint? Look at Frances Fisher's Schedule : Movies: The actress has been so busy with a TV series and film projects she barely has time to come up for air.|first=LAURIE K.|last=SCHENDEN|date=September 15, 1995|via=LA Times|access-date=March 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204050724/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-09-15/entertainment/ca-46085_1_frances-fisher|archive-date=December 4, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2018, Francesca gave birth to a son named Titan Wraith.<ref>[https://people.com/parents/francesca-eastwood-boyfriend-alexander-wraith-welcome-son-titan/ Francesca Eastwood and Boyfriend Alexander Wraith Welcome Son Titan] ''People'' (September 24, 2018)</ref> While Eastwood is a grandfather several times over, Titan is his first grandchild whose birth was announced.

== Marriage and divorce with Dina Ruiz==

[[File:Clint and Dina Eastwood.jpg|thumb|With his former wife Dina in 2007]]

Before Fisher had moved out of Eastwood's home, he was reportedly already dating Dina Ruiz,<ref name="makinghisday">{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103280,00.html|title=Making His Day – Vol. 45 No. 15|date=April 15, 1996|access-date=April 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805213436/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20103280,00.html|archive-date=August 5, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> a television news anchor 35 years his junior whom he first met when she interviewed him in March 1993.<ref name="Eliot289" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/dina-eastwood-opens-up-about-mrs-eastwood-and-company-and-life-with-clint|title=Dina Eastwood Opens Up About ‘Mrs. Eastwood & Company’ and Life With Clint|first=Marlow|last=Stern|date=May 16, 2012|work=The Daily Beast}}</ref> It is not clear when exactly the two started seeing each other romantically. Eastwood took Ruiz to two high-profile golf tournaments in February 1995 without ever announcing that he and Fisher had broken up.<ref>Tribune Wire Services, ''The Indianapolis News'', March 8, 1995</ref> Ruiz announced her engagement to Eastwood in January 1996.<ref>"Clint Eastwood's flame confirms wedding reports", ''Arizona Republic'', January 21, 1996</ref> 
They married on March 31, when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite news|agency={{wipe|Reuters}}|title=Clint's wife expecting|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/437533223.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current|work=Toronto Star|date=September 6, 1996|access-date=March 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528032037/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/doc/437533223.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current|archive-date=May 28, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The marriage was noted for the fact that it was only Eastwood's second legal union in spite of his many long-term romances over the decades. Eastwood said of his bride, "I'm proud to make this lady my wife. She's the one I've been waiting for."<ref name="McG513">McGilligan, p. 513</ref> Ruiz commented, "The fact that I'm only the second woman he has married really touches me."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/04/09/DD32520.DTL&ao=all|title=She Makes His Day / Salinas anchorwoman Dina Ruiz gets used to role as Clint's wife|first=Sylvia|last=Rubin|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=1996-04-09}}</ref> The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996).<ref name="McG328">McGilligan, p. 328</ref>

Ruiz made cameos in two of Eastwood's films: ''Blood Work'' and ''True Crime'' (in which Fisher even appeared). In the summer of 2012, Dina, Morgan and Francesca starred with the band Overtone in a reality show for the ''E!'' network titled ''Mrs. Eastwood & Company'', on which Clint appeared only occasionally. Also featured in the series was Dina's sister-in-law Jade Berti, granddaughter of comedy legend Groucho Marx. (By sheer coincidence, Marx's handprint square at Grauman's Chinese Theatre touches corners with Mr. Eastwood's; Berti viewed this as a sign of her relationship with Dina's brother, special effects coordinator Dominic Ruiz, being written "in stone and in the stars.") While promoting the show on ''Chelsea Lately'', Dina said jokingly: "I hope we're still married when this is over!"<ref>''Chelsea Lately'', May 22, 2012</ref> – a reference to the apparent trend that many marriages on reality TV end in divorce.

On August 28, 2013, Dina Eastwood announced that she and her husband had been living separately for an undisclosed length of time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/clint-eastwood-wife-dina-eastwood-separate-after-nearly-17-years-of-marriage-2013298|date=August 29, 2013|title=Clint Eastwood, Wife Dina Eastwood Separate After Nearly 17 Years of Marriage|first=Allison|last=Takeda|work=Us Weekly|access-date=August 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831093651/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/clint-eastwood-wife-dina-eastwood-separate-after-nearly-17-years-of-marriage-2013298|archive-date=August 31, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> By fall, Eastwood's wife filed for divorce after she withdrew her request for legal separation, citing [[Social:Irreconcilable differences|irreconcilable differences]]. She asked for full custody of their then 16-year-old daughter, Morgan, as well as spousal support.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clint Eastwood: Wife of actor-director files for divorce|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/24/clint-eastwoods-wife-files-divorce|work=Washington Times|access-date=October 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131025001851/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/24/clint-eastwoods-wife-files-divorce/|archive-date=October 25, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The divorce was finalized on December 22, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/article/clint-eastwood-divorce-finalized-dina|title=Clint Eastwood Is Divorced|date=23 December 2014|access-date=21 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203051910/http://www.people.com/article/clint-eastwood-divorce-finalized-dina|archive-date=3 February 2016|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==  Later relationships ==

Since his split from Ruiz, Eastwood has been linked publicly with photographer Erica Tomlinson-Fisher (no relation to Frances),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/clint-eastwood-dina-eastwood-split-shocking-wife-swap-post-split-201349|title=Clint Eastwood, Dina Eastwood Involved in Shocking Wife Swap Post-Split!|access-date=2016-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217183406/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/clint-eastwood-dina-eastwood-split-shocking-wife-swap-post-split-201349|archive-date=2016-02-17|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|Erica Tomlinson-Fisher is the ex-wife of college basketball coach Scott Fisher. In a twist that attracted headlines after the Eastwoods separated, Scott Fisher started dating Clint's estranged wife Dina at the same time Clint and Erica were dating. Scott married Dina in 2016.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://people.com/celebrity/dina-eastwood-re-marries-after-divorce-from-clint/|title=Clint Eastwood's Ex-Wife Dina Marries Fiancé Scott Fisher in California|first=Rose|last=Minutaglio|work=People|date=July 4, 2016}}</ref>}} 41 years his junior, and restaurant hostess Christina Sandera, 33 years his junior. He and Sandera went public with their relationship at the 87th Academy Awards in February 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/clint-eastwood-brings-girlfriend-christina-sandera-to-oscars-2015-2015222|title=Clint Eastwood Brings GF Christina Sandera as His Oscars Date - See Pics|access-date=2016-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407204717/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/clint-eastwood-brings-girlfriend-christina-sandera-to-oscars-2015-2015222|archive-date=2016-04-07|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Further alleged offspring ==

Laurie Murray, Kimber Tunis, and Scott and Kathryn Reeves are omitted from the Eastwood episode of A&E's ''Biography'' series, which first aired on October 5, 2003.<ref>"Behind the Scenes with Clint". ''Dallas Morning News''.  October 4, 2003.</ref> According to McGilligan, "the people who know Clint best suspect there are other families in his closet."<ref>McGilligan, p. 501</ref> The UK edition of ''Clint: The Life and Legend'' (1999) was the first publication to report Laurie's existence, although her name was not revealed, and she was not acknowledged by any media outlet until she identified herself to photographers at the December 2018 premiere of ''The Mule''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mahjouri|first=Shakiel|url=https://etcanada.com/news/396503/clint-eastwood-brings-his-secret-daughter-to-the-mule-premiere/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213090324/https://etcanada.com/news/396503/clint-eastwood-brings-his-secret-daughter-to-the-mule-premiere/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 13, 2018 |title=Clint Eastwood Brings His 'Secret Daughter' to 'The Mule' Premiere|work=Entertainment Tonight|location=Canada|date=December 13, 2018}}</ref>

Some sources, including a now-defunct website launched in 2006 by his cousin Steve,<ref name="seastwood">{{cite web|url=http://www.seastwood.com/backup310/Eastwood/clintchildren.asp|title=Relationships & Offspring: An Attempt to Clarify|first=Steve|last=Eastwood|publisher=seastwood.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521085549/http://www.seastwood.com/backup310/Eastwood/clintchildren.asp|archive-date=May 21, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> cite another child named Lesly (born February 13, 1959) by Rosina Mary Glen.<ref name="seastwood"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmstarfacts.com/2016/10/05/know-garson-darnell-eastwood-boyle|title=Did you know?|first=Alan|last=Royle|publisher=filmstarfacts.com|date=October 5, 2016}}</ref>

Publicly, Eastwood has been silent on claims of other offspring. "We don't know how many children Clint has had with how many women," McGilligan stated on-camera in the 2012 French documentary ''L'album secret de Clint Eastwood''.<ref name="auto"/> "One was when he was still in high school ... I heard of other possibilities."<ref name="auto"/> ''Playboy'' notes that "the number is unconfirmed and Eastwood is reticent about the issue."<ref name="playboy"/>

When Steve Kroft asked Eastwood how many children he has in a 1997 ''60 Minutes'' interview, he replied, without further elaboration, "I have a few."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/KROFT+QUESTIONS+DON'T+MAKE+EASTWOOD'S+DAY.-a083892053|title=KROFT QUESTIONS DON'T MAKE EASTWOOD'S DAY|website=Thefreelibrary.com}}</ref>

== Footnotes ==
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==References==
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== Bibliography ==

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* {{cite book |last=Eliot |first=Marc |title=American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood |publisher=Harmony Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-307-33688-0 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/americanrebellif00elio }}
* {{cite book |last=McGilligan |first=Patrick |title=Clint: The Life and Legend (updated and revised) |publisher=OR Books |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-939293-96-1 |location=New York}}
* {{cite book |last=Schickel |first=Richard |title=Clint Eastwood: A Biography |publisher=Knopf |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-679-42974-6 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/clinteastwoodbio00schi }}
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