Christina Sandera, longtime partner of Clint Eastwood, dies at 61
Christina Sandera, the longtime companion of film legend Clint Eastwood, has died at 61.
"Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much," the 94-year-old Eastwood said in a statement Thursday.
No details about Sandera's death were immediately available, and a representative for Warner Bros. did not comment further when reached by The Times.
Sandera and the Academy Award-winning director reportedly met when she worked as a host at Eastwood’s Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea. They started dating in 2014, but the notoriously private Eastwood remained tight-lipped about their relationship.
While the pair kept quiet about their romance, Sandera occasionally joined the "Dirty Harry" star on red carpets. She made her red-carpet debut with him at the Academy Awards in 2015, when his film "American Sniper" was up for six Oscars. She also joined him at events surrounding 2016's "Sully," 2018's "The Mule" and 2019's "Richard Jewell."
Before his relationship with Sandera, the "Million Dollar Baby" and "Unforgiven" director was married to model Maggie Johnson from 1953 to 1984 and to news anchor Dina Ruiz from 1996 to 2014. He shares a son, actor Scott Eastwood, with ex Jacelyn Reeves and has seven other children from his other relationships.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 20, 2024 8:33 PM
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I'll bet she thought she would get a huge inheritance from him.
Wrong!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 20, 2024 1:57 AM
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it's odd that they are keeping tight lipped about her cause of death. 61??? that's pretty young unless it was cancer or early onset dementia.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 20, 2024 2:02 AM
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@r1, "I'll bet she thought she would get a huge inheritance from him."
Hey, I popped for the plot AND a lovely pine box at Fred's Bargain Burials
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 20, 2024 2:14 AM
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Can you imagine a 61 year old having to kiss and sleep with a 94 year old?
It's all Ben-Gay and mothballs!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 20, 2024 2:17 AM
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A few years difference is fine, but never marry a much older man
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 20, 2024 2:17 AM
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He can replace her with an empty chair.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 20, 2024 3:15 AM
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He should call Jennie Garth.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 20, 2024 3:56 AM
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[quote]He shares a son, actor Scott Eastwood, with ex Jacelyn Reeves and has seven other children from his other relationships.
Huh?
Clint Eastwood has eight children all with a huge array of women, but none of them his wives? Typical Republican living a life in complete turmoil due to lack of impulse control!
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 20, 2024 4:43 AM
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How many women is a huge array? Hundreds? Thousands? Did each have a fraction of a child with him
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 20, 2024 5:53 AM
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Yes, r14, literally hundreds and thousands!
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 20, 2024 3:59 PM
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[quote]Clint Eastwood has eight children all with a huge array of women, but none of them his wives?
Two kids with one wife, a daughter with ex-wife Dina Ruiz, and a daughter from his long-term relationship with Frances Fisher; the rest were borne of affairs like Scott.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 20, 2024 4:24 PM
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[quote] Can you imagine a 61 year old having to kiss and sleep with a 94 year old?
Especially a 94 year old who looks 175.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 20, 2024 6:32 PM
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^i wonder why he’s meeting with Jane Goodall? Her face is on the cake with a chimp. Perhaps it was her birthday.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 20, 2024 6:37 PM
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Wow, I always thought he was married to Sondra Locke, but he never did marry her. She married a homosexual in a “mixed orientation marriage,” as Wikipedia puts it.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 20, 2024 6:57 PM
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Young Clint, back in the day. You know he dialed that phone with his pinky.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 20, 2024 7:18 PM
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Play Amazing Grace For Me
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 20, 2024 8:33 PM
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