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22-07-2025
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Clint Eastwood's complicated love life, 'addictive' affairs exposed in new biography
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Clint Eastwood is a man of many layers. In a new biography written by filmmaker Shawn Levy, "Clint: The Man and The Movies," the legendary actor's life behind the camera is examined through past quotes from Eastwood and various peers who shed insight into his extensive romantic past and "addictive" affairs he had while married to his first wife, Maggie Johnson, and other partners. "His affairs, he later admitted to Richard Schickel, 'just became … I don't know … addictive … like you have to have another cigarette,'" Levy wrote in the book, quoting Eastwood. CLINT EASTWOOD REFLECTS ON DECADES IN HOLLYWOOD AND HIS DRIVE TO KEEP WORKING AS HE TURNS 95 Eastwood married Johnson in 1953. Throughout their 21-year marriage, Eastwood had many affairs with various women and fathered multiple children. "There were many other women, some from the ranks of classmates, some encountered at the nightspots and jazz clubs that he frequented, some from among his neighbors at the apartment complex in Studio City, near Universal, to which he and Maggie had moved when he first went under contract to the studio," Levy wrote in the book. "The atmosphere of that small apartment building — which, naturally, was centered around a swimming pool — not only encouraged sexual adventures but facilitated them; several of Clint's friends from Oakland, Seattle, and Fort Ord moved into the place or similar places nearby, meaning that there were always apartments readily available for a quick tryst — and buddies willing to help him cover his tracks." According to Levy, Eastwood was always upfront about his behavior and allegedly had an "understanding" with Johnson. "It wasn't entirely evident, though, that he needed such help. As a friend put it, 'Clint goes where he wants, does what he wants — goes to dinner with a girl if he wants. Maggie doesn't say a thing. Clint is the undisputed boss.' He referred to himself half-jokingly as a 'married bachelor,' but there were significant hints that his wife knew the score and was okay with it," Levy wrote. CLINT EASTWOOD 'S DAUGHTER SAYS 'VERY STRICT' DAD HAD THIS PIECE OF ADVICE GROWING UP "'Maggie and I have an understanding,' he was quoted as saying. 'I'm independent, a vagabond, and she accepts me as I am and doesn't strangle me with female possessiveness.' Speaking more broadly, he declared, 'Maggie doesn't chain me. The worst thing is owning people. I don't want to be owned by anybody — maybe shared, but not lock, stock, and barrel. "Love is respecting privacy, accepting faults. But I don't believe it's a one-way street. The sophisticated woman accepts that chances are a guy's not being 100 percent faithful. If she talks about it, it only makes it worse.'" Eastwood allegedly said of his relationship with Johnson, "There's no ownership in this marriage. My soul is my own. Maggie knows this. Possession is the worst thing. I'm hard to live with. … I'm moody, and lots of the time I'd rather be alone. … It took Maggie a while, but she learned." Though Johnson was aware of the trysts, Levy wrote, it's unclear if she knew just how extensive the affairs were. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "Their private life was another matter, as Maggie admitted some years later when she told an interviewer, 'We're not advocates of the total togetherness theory.' It's not clear that she was aware of just how many liberties Clint took, or, for that matter, whether she availed herself of any. "But they stayed together through these lean years, despite living near enough to her family for her to make other choices, so she either didn't know or didn't care about his sexual entanglements — or she believed that they were his business and nobody else's, not even hers," Levy wrote. "It seemed to some who knew the couple that she thrived. 'She's got more steel than a hardware store,' a friend noted. 'Clint talks to her about everything.' And Clint himself admitted, 'She is the very best friend I have. She loved me when no one else did.'" A representative for Eastwood did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. The couple, who had two children together during their marriage, got divorced in 1984. Eastwood and stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis welcomed a daughter, Kimber Lynn, in 1964, while he was still married to Johnson. Eastwood married Dina Ruiz in 1996, and the couple divorced in 2014. He also had long-term relationships with actresses Sondra Locke and Frances Fisher. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER The award-winning actor and director is a father of eight: Laurie Murray, Kimber Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Alison Eastwood , Scott Eastwood, Kathryn Eastwood, Francesca Eastwood and Morgan Eastwood. In July 2023, Eastwood announced his girlfriend of ten years, Christina Sandera, had died. "Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much," he said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter at the time. A few days later, his daughter Morgan shared a photo with the couple, noting the "devastating" loss. "A devastating loss for our whole family," Morgan wrote of Sandera, who died at the age of 61 July 18. "Thank you Christina for being a good partner to my Dad. You will be missed." Sandera's cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, the Monterey, California, County Department of Health said in a death certificate obtained by Fox News Digital. Two years after his loss, he said he had no plans to slow down professionally. In a recent interview with the Austrian newspaper Kurier, the director, who turned 95 in May, revealed he is in pre-production on a new movie, dispelling rumors that 2024's "Juror #2" would be his final film. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age," he explained. "And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them."
Yahoo
21-07-2025
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New Book Unearths Secrets Involving Clint Eastwood's Marriage to Maggie Johnson
Clint Eastwood was married to Maggie Johnson from 1953 to 1984, but according to a new book, the Dirty Harry legend wasn't faithful. Far from it. 'By many accounts, including his own, he more or less comported himself as if he were a bachelor,' Shawn Levy writes in Clint: The Man and the Movies. Levy claims Maggie knew all about her husband's wandering eye and says Clint reportedly told Photoplay magazine in 1963, 'One thing Mag had to learn about me was that I was going to do as I pleased. She had to accept that, because if she didn't, we wouldn't be married.' Clint is also quoted as adding, 'I'm independent … and [Maggie] accepts me as I am and doesn't strangle me with female possessiveness.' Years later, Clint told Playboy that he thought Maggie was 'a woman who knows how much room I need.' In his book, Levy says Clint would pick up women in his acting classes, on the studio lots where he was working and even in the apartment complex where he lived with Maggie. The Rawhide star's dalliances even produced children: He and stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis had daughter Kimber Lynn in 1964. Clint also had a longtime romance with Sondra Locke, whom he cast in his 1975 Western, The Outlaw Josey Wales. Their affair ended in 1989. Sondra writes in her 1997 autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey, that she had had two abortions and a tubal ligation because he didn't want any more children — a fact Clint denies. Sondra also claims Clint had told her that 'there was no real relationship left' between him and Maggie. The pair divorced in 1984 after 31 years of marriage. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
03-07-2025
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New Book Claims Clint Eastwood Treated Women Like ‘Cigarettes': ‘You Have To Have Another'
If you've been on a dating app recently, Clint Eastwood's behavior will unfortunately sound familiar. On Wednesday, People got access to Shawn Levy's new biographyabout the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker titled, 'Clint: The Man and The Movies,' and decided to razor-focus on the book's claims about Eastwood's very messy love life. People's article on Levy's book zeros in on the affairs the now 95-year-old 'Dirty Harry' star had while married to his first wife, Maggie Johnson, from 1953 to 1984 — including his affair and yearslong relationship with his co-star Sondra Locke. Johnson and Eastwood had two children, a son, Kyle, 57, and daughter Alison, 53. Eastwood also has six other known children with five other women. Levy's book alleges that while the 'Bridges of Madison County' star was married to Johnson, he picked up women in his acting classes, on studio lots and even in the apartment complex in which he lived with his wife. 'One thing Mag had to learn about me was that I was going to do as I pleased,' Eastwood told Photoplay about Johnson in 1963, per Levy. 'She had to accept that, because if she didn't, we wouldn't be married.' The 'Unforgiven' star was also reportedly quoted by Levy as saying, 'I'm independent, a vagabond, and [Johnson] accepts me as I am and doesn't strangle me with female possessiveness.' It should be noted that The New York Times says in its positive review of Levy's book that the 'Rahwide' star did not grant Levy an interview, and instead Levy relied on archival interviews Eastwood and those closest to him have given in the past. Levy used several quotes from Richard Schickel's authorized 1997 biography, 'Clint Eastwood: A Biography,' which includes quotes from interviews Schickel conducted with the spaghetti western legend. Levy includes a quote from Schickel's book in which Eastwood admits to Schickel that promiscuity just feels 'habitual' to him, and that fooling around 'became … I don't know… addictive… like you have to have another cigarette.' Although it's unclear if Johnson knew about Eastwood's f-boy attitude during their marriage, Schickel's book implies that she had her suspicions but was in 'denial.' Schickel wrote in his book that Johnson was 'careful to avoid asking [Eastwood] difficult questions. Possibly she was naive. Perhaps she was, as we would now put it, in denial.' Johnson did, however, express her concerns at least once. According to Schickel's book, Johnson once asked the couple's close friend, Fritz Manes, if Eastwood was 'playing around,' and Manes reassured her by playing dumb. Schickel wrote that Manes'believes that Maggie did not fully admit to herself that Clint was unfaithful to her until the late seventies, some time after his relationship with Sondra Locke was well established and widely rumored.' Schickel also quoted Johnson later telling him: 'I was never very realistic about some things,' Johnson told Schickel of Eastwood. 'I used to always hope for the best. I wanted to protect myself. I wondered about it, but I didn't dwell on it, because it probably would have driven me insane. I'm sure there must have been times, but I just preferred to hang in there and not worry too much about it.' To read about Locke's sad fate with Eastwood, head over to People.
Fox News
03-07-2025
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Clint Eastwood's complicated love life, 'addictive' affairs exposed in new biography
Clint Eastwood is a man of many layers. In a new biography written by filmmaker Shawn Levy, "Clint: The Man and The Movies," the legendary actor's life behind the camera is examined through past quotes from Eastwood and various peers who shed insight into his extensive romantic past and "addictive" affairs he had while married to his first wife, Maggie Johnson, and other partners. "His affairs, he later admitted to Richard Schickel, 'just became … I don't know … addictive … like you have to have another cigarette,'" Levy wrote in the book, quoting Eastwood. Eastwood married Johnson in 1953. Throughout their 21-year marriage, Eastwood had many affairs with various women and fathered multiple children. "There were many other women, some from the ranks of classmates, some encountered at the nightspots and jazz clubs that he frequented, some from among his neighbors at the apartment complex in Studio City, near Universal, to which he and Maggie had moved when he first went under contract to the studio," Levy wrote in the book. "The atmosphere of that small apartment building — which, naturally, was centered around a swimming pool — not only encouraged sexual adventures but facilitated them; several of Clint's friends from Oakland, Seattle, and Fort Ord moved into the place or similar places nearby, meaning that there were always apartments readily available for a quick tryst — and buddies willing to help him cover his tracks." According to Levy, Eastwood was always upfront about his behavior and allegedly had an "understanding" with Johnson. "It wasn't entirely evident, though, that he needed such help. As a friend put it, 'Clint goes where he wants, does what he wants — goes to dinner with a girl if he wants. Maggie doesn't say a thing. Clint is the undisputed boss.' He referred to himself half-jokingly as a 'married bachelor,' but there were significant hints that his wife knew the score and was okay with it," Levy wrote. "'Maggie and I have an understanding,' he was quoted as saying. 'I'm independent, a vagabond, and she accepts me as I am and doesn't strangle me with female possessiveness.' Speaking more broadly, he declared, 'Maggie doesn't chain me. The worst thing is owning people. I don't want to be owned by anybody — maybe shared, but not lock, stock, and barrel. "Love is respecting privacy, accepting faults. But I don't believe it's a one-way street. The sophisticated woman accepts that chances are a guy's not being 100 percent faithful. If she talks about it, it only makes it worse.'" Eastwood allegedly said of his relationship with Johnson, "There's no ownership in this marriage. My soul is my own. Maggie knows this. Possession is the worst thing. I'm hard to live with. … I'm moody, and lots of the time I'd rather be alone. … It took Maggie a while, but she learned." Though Johnson was aware of the trysts, Levy wrote, it's unclear if she knew just how extensive the affairs were. "Their private life was another matter, as Maggie admitted some years later when she told an interviewer, 'We're not advocates of the total togetherness theory.' It's not clear that she was aware of just how many liberties Clint took, or, for that matter, whether she availed herself of any. "But they stayed together through these lean years, despite living near enough to her family for her to make other choices, so she either didn't know or didn't care about his sexual entanglements — or she believed that they were his business and nobody else's, not even hers," Levy wrote. "It seemed to some who knew the couple that she thrived. 'She's got more steel than a hardware store,' a friend noted. 'Clint talks to her about everything.' And Clint himself admitted, 'She is the very best friend I have. She loved me when no one else did.'" A representative for Eastwood did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. The couple, who had two children together during their marriage, got divorced in 1984. Eastwood and stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis welcomed a daughter, Kimber Lynn, in 1964, while he was still married to Johnson. Eastwood married Dina Ruiz in 1996, and the couple divorced in 2014. He also had long-term relationships with actresses Sondra Locke and Frances Fisher. The award-winning actor and director is a father of eight: Laurie Murray, Kimber Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Alison Eastwood, Scott Eastwood, Kathryn Eastwood, Francesca Eastwood and Morgan Eastwood. In July 2023, Eastwood announced his girlfriend of ten years, Christina Sandera, had died. "Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much," he said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter at the time. A few days later, his daughter Morgan shared a photo with the couple, noting the "devastating" loss. "A devastating loss for our whole family," Morgan wrote of Sandera, who died at the age of 61 July 18. "Thank you Christina for being a good partner to my Dad. You will be missed." Sandera's cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, the Monterey, California, County Department of Health said in a death certificate obtained by Fox News Digital. Two years after his loss, he said he had no plans to slow down professionally. In a recent interview with the Austrian newspaper Kurier, the director, who turned 95 in May, revealed he is in pre-production on a new movie, dispelling rumors that 2024's "Juror #2" would be his final film. "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age," he explained. "And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them."
News.com.au
03-07-2025
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Hollywood legend's affairs exposed: ‘Did as I pleased'
Clint Eastwood openly committed adultery during his marriage to Maggie Johnson, a new biography claims. In Clint: The Man and The Movies, biographer Shawn Levy wrote about the 95-year-old actor's alleged affairs that he had while he was married to Johnson from 1953 to 1984. 'By many accounts, including his own, he more or less comported himself as if he were a bachelor,' Levy wrote of Eastwood, according to People. Johnson, according to Levy, was fully aware of her husband's infidelities at the time. 'One thing Mag had to learn about me was that I was going to do as I pleased,' Eastwood told Photoplay in 1963, per Levy. 'She had to accept that, because if she didn't, we wouldn't be married.' The Rahwide star was also reportedly quoted by Levy as saying, 'I'm independent, a vagabond, and [Johnson] accepts me as I am and doesn't strangle me with female possessiveness.' Levy also wrote that in Richard Schickel's 1997 book, Clint Eastwood: A Biography, Eastwood admitted that his affairs ''just became… I don't know… addictive… like you have to have another cigarette.' Clint: The Man and The Movies further alleges that the Oscar winner picked up women in his acting classes, on studio lots where he worked and at the apartment complex he lived in with Johnson. The Post has reached out to Eastwood's rep for comment. During Eastwood and Johnson's marriage, they welcomed two children: son Kyle, 57, and daughter Alison, 53. The couple called it quits as Eastwood was years into his alleged affair with actress Sondra Locke, whom he cast in his 1975 film The Outlaw Josey Wales. In her 1979 autobiography, Locke claimed that Eastwood told her 'there was no real relationship left' between him and Johnson, according to People. After Locke and Eastwood split in 1989, she alleged in her book that she had two abortions and a tubal ligation since the director told her he didn't want more kids. (Eastwood denied Locke's claims). Eastwood also had an alleged affair with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis during his marriage to Johnson. Their relationship reportedly last 14 years, during which Tunis gave birth to their daughter, Kimber, 61. The actor's second marriage was to news reporter Dina Ruiz from 1996 to 2014. They have a daughter, Morgan, 28. The famed actor is also dad to son Scott and daughter Kathryn with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves and daughter Francesca with British actress Frances Fisher. His oldest child, Laurie, was born in 1954 and was reportedly placed for adoption without his knowledge, per People. They reconnected years later. Most recently, Eastwood was in a 10-year relationship with Christina Sandera until she died of a heart attack at age 61 in July 2024. 'Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,' Eastwood said in a statement after Sandera's death. The pair, who met at a restaurant in California, mostly kept their relationship out of the spotlight. They walked their last red carpet together in 2019.
