Nothing says healthy breakup like kicking someone out and changing
the locks.
And yet, that's just one story from Clint
Eastwood's shocking love life. There's no question that Clint Eastwood
is a Hollywood legend.
He began his career as a screen actor in
1955 and over the years established himself as a prolific
director,
actor, and producer. Eastwood's work has remained so recognizable throughout
his career that you'd be hard pressed to find a
movie fan who isn't familiar with his name.
Name and films. You've got to ask yourself one question.
Do I feel lucky?
Well, do you bunk? His personal life,
however, may be a different matter.
Though he's only been married twice,
Eastwood has accumulated a large number of exes over the
decades and has eight children with six different women.
Clearly, the actor's private life has been quite tumultuous at
times.
As such, his former lovers have shared both positive and
negative thoughts about him over the years.
Eastwood's first marriage, which was also his longest.
He married Maggie Johnson in
1953, and while they separated in
1979, they didn't divorce until
1984. Perhaps fittingly, the pair's first meeting was like something
out of the movies.
Johnson described the occasion in Richard Schickel's book Clint Eastwood,
a biography, she said I came down the stairs of
the sorority house and Clint had his back to me.
When he turned around, I was amazed at what he
looked like.
Their first meeting was supposed to be a casual double
date,
but something clicked. Eastwood and Johnson started dating,
married and later had two children.
However, their domestic life wasn't always blissful.
Eastwood's first marriage was marred by a lengthy affair with
actor and stunt person Roxanne Tunis,
which Johnson knew about even as it was happening.
He also had a relationship with another actor,
Sandra Locke, during the last years of the marriage.
Though lifelong romance wasn't in the cards,
the exes have remained on great terms over the years.
Eastwood's next, a long term relationship,
ended in disaster. Sandra Locke was an actor and director
who met Eastwood in
1975 while filming The Outlaw Josie Wales.
The two went on to make several more movies together
in the late
1970s and early 1980s. Though they were both married when
they met,
they soon began a romantic relationship.
In the early years of their relationship,
Locke was secretive about the affair.
In 1978, she told People magazine.
Everybody would love for us to say it's all true,
true, we're madly in love.
But people will believe whatever they want to believe.
Even if it were true,
which it isn't, I certainly wouldn't talk about it.
But the pair's relationship eventually deteriorated.
Eastwood finally ended things in
1989 by removing Locke's belongings from their house and changing
the locks.
Locke later told The Independent he had every right if
he didn't love me to end the relationship,
but he didn't have the right to treat me that
way.
You see, in this world,
there's two kinds of people,
my friend,
those with loaded guns and those who Dick.
That same year, Eastwood started a new relationship with Francis
Fisher,
who had featured alongside him in Pink Cadillac.
Fisher's first real impression of Eastwood came at the Pink
Cadillac wrap party,
and she told People in
1992 that the actor director came across as surprisingly mellow.
She remembered. My first impression was he doesn't look so
tough.
He's got such a gentle bearing.
In real life, we had a very good connection right
away.
Fisher and Eastwood had a daughter together,
but their relationship didn't last.
Eastwood soon began to move away from Fisher and toward
his next major relationship.
He officially ended things with Fisher in
1995. Nevertheless, she doesn't seem to hold any ill will
toward him in
2004, she told SF Gate.
I believe when you have loved someone,
if you don't destroy it with pettiness,
then the love is always there.
Eastwood then met reporter Dina Ruiz when she interviewed him
in
1993. While he wasn't immediately blown away,
they later ended up sitting at the same table at
a social event and got along very well.
They started a relationship in
1994, married in 1996 and had a daughter later the
same year.
In an interview with Carmel magazine,
Dina had kind things to say about her husband.
He's one of those people who takes bugs outside.
I call him Saint Francis of Assisi.
In 2012, Dina took part in a reality show called
Mrs.
Eastwood and Company, which may not have sat well with
her extremely private husband,
judging by the fact that he stopped wearing his wedding
ring that year at least.
She filed for divorce in 2013 and in 2014 the
marriage ended.
In a 2013 interview with E Online,
however, Dina maintained a positive view of her soon to
be ex-husband.
She said. He is the sweetest.
He is a loving, kind,
low key person. So my intuition was still great on
marrying a good person.