Category: Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood’s longtime partner Christina Sandera’s cause of death has been revealed days after her shock passing aged 61.

The Oscar-winning actor and director, 94, confirmed Sandera’s death in a heartbreaking statement on Thursday. The pair had been in a relationship since 2014. 

Sandera died of a heart attack, a representative from the Monterey County Health Department confirmed to the New York Post.

The death certificate listed her immediate cause as cardiac arrhythmia,an abnormality in the timing or pattern of the heartbeat. 

Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease was cited as an additional condition that led to Sandera’s death.

Eastwood said: ‘Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much.’

A Warner Bros. spokesperson told THR that no further information would be forthcoming on Christina’s death as Eastwood grieves the loss privately.

Eastwood and Sandera met when she worked as a restaurant hostess at Eastwood’s hotel, the Mission Ranch, in Carmel, California in 2014.

Despite their 33-year age-gap, their romance quickly blossomed. 

Little was publicly known about their relationship but she did support Eastwood at various film premieres and awards shows. 

She made her red carpet debut with the star at the 2015 Oscars where his drama American Sniper was up for six awards.

Sandera was first photographed with Eastwood in June 2014 with insiders saying she had moved into the $20million mansion he had built for ex Dina months earlier.

They were last seen publicly together in 2019 – with the pair posing in November 2022 with Clint’s daughters in a final social media snap. 

The same insider told an entertainment magazine that Eastwood was ‘with Christina and happy’. 

‘Clint’s kids have all met Christina and like her,’ said the source, who added that the children all thought she was ‘normal’.

The pair began dating a year after Eastwood divorced second wife Dina after 17 years of marriage.

Sandera was previously married to Paul Wainscoat in 2003 for just 11 months – and the former couple had a turbulent union which resulted in Sandera being arrested for domestic battery.

Wainscoat told The National Enquirer in 2015 that on July 17, 2002, just two months after he began dating Sandera, she became enraged when he refused to move in with her, and when he tried to leave ‘grabbed onto his shirt and scratched his neck to prevent him.’

He managed to call the police, who in their report, noted a ‘strong odor’ of alcohol on Sandera’s breath as they arrested her for domestic battery.

The couple still married eight months later though, after, according to Wainscoat, he spent $80,000  on the couple’s honeymoon and jewelry and ‘dental work’ for his bride.

A few months after they married another physical fight broke out between the pair, with Wainscoat claiming that this time Sandera went into a rage as she was ‘distraught due to the recent death of one of her cats.’

He claims she began screaming at him ‘Where are my kittens?’ and then began hitting him with a closed fist before throwing ‘a full bottle of Gatorade, which hit him in the back of the head.’

He says he did not file charges on account of her ‘drinking.’

 The marriage finally blew up in June 2003, when police responded to another domestic disturbance with Wainscoat claiming he was ‘being battered by his wife.’

In court papers Sandera said she was not an alcoholic but had quit booze and attended AA meetings.

In addition, Sandera said she attended ’15 anger management classes.’

Eastwood is father to eight children by six different women.

Morgan Eastwood, 27 – whose wedding Clint recently attended – is his only child with Dina.

‘The former couple married in March 1996 and Morgan was born that December.

They separated in 2012 and Dina filed for divorce the following year citing ‘irreconcilable differences.’

Before Dina, Clint had an ‘open marriage’ with Maggie Johnson that lasted from 1953 to 1984. During their union, they welcomed daughter Alison, 52, and son Kyle, 56. 

His eldest child, 70-year-old daughter Laurie Murray, was the result of a 1953 fling. Without Clint’s knowledge, Laurie’s mother — whose identity has never been revealed — got pregnant and put the baby up for adoption.

Laurie was adopted by a couple in Seattle and later learned Clint was her father after embarking on a quest to locate her birth parents.

A family friend told DailyMail.com back in 2018: ‘This all happened around 30 years ago. Laurie had been really interested in finding out who her real parents were and hired someone to help her. When they found the paperwork, her biological mother had written down Clint Eastwood’s name.

‘From what it appeared, Clint Eastwood had no idea that she was even pregnant.’

The news was received positively by Clint and his family. He took Laurie to the Oscars in 2004 and they’ve bonded over golf as adults.

Clint’s second eldest Kimber Lynn, 59 — who works as a pro makeup artist in Hollywood — was born in 1964 during Clint’s affair with dance/actress Roxanne Tunis, who passed away last year at age 93.

Clint shares son Scott and daughter Kathryn, 36, with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves, who he dated from 1985 to 1990.

His second youngest child, daughter Francesca Eastwood, was born during his relationship with Titanic star Frances Fisher, 72, in the early 1990s.

After his split from Dina in 2012, Clint moved on with actress/model Christina Sandera, 60, in 2014. The couple are still together and live in California.

Clint became a grandfather for the first time — to his initial knowledge — in 1984 with the birth of daughter Kimber’s son Clinton, 40.

But Clint’s eldest grandchild is actually Laurie’s 41-year-old son Lowell Thomas Murray IV, who works as a fitness trainer and is a former contestant on the 18th season of ABC’s The Bachelorette.

Laurie also shares a daughter named Kelsey, 40, with husband Lowell Thomas Murray III.

Clint’s granddaughter Graylen, 30, was born in 1994 and is his son Kyle’s only child. 

Finally, Clint’s youngest grandchild is six-year-old Titan. Titan belongs to Clint’s daughter Francesca and Greystone Park actor Alexander Wraith.

Clint Eastwood’s classic western A Fistful Of Dollars is officially being remade 60 years after it first bowed in theaters.

Directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, the original movie was a pioneer in the ‘spaghetti western’ genre and spawned a whole trilogy of Dollars movies.

Eastwood – who turned 94 this May – starred as a mysterious gunslinger called the Man With No Name, marking his first leading role in a motion picture.

Now the 1964 feature has a remake in development from Euro Gang Entertainment, though no stars or writers have yet been publicly attached to the project.

Jolly Film, an Italian production company that helped back the original movie, is also one of the outfits behind the new version, according to Deadline. 

The original was released in both English and Italian, but it is currently unknown whether the remake will be in one or both of the languages. 

In the 1964 version of A Fistful Of Dollars, the Man With No Name arrives in a border town between the United States and Mexico and wreaks havoc.

He inserts himself into a feud between two local smuggling families, the Rojos and the Baxters, and takes advantage their battle of wills to extract a profit for himself.

The film is widely regarded as an uncredited remake of the 1961 samurai movie Yojimbo, helmed by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.

Kurosawa’s work had already proven fertile ground as inspiration for westerns, as his 1954 epic Seven Samurai was the basis for the 1960 feature The Magnificent Seven.

Eastwood and Leone went on to make two sequels to A Fistful Of Dollars – For A Few Dollars More in 1965 and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly in 1966.

A Fistful Of Dollars was released five years after Eastwood got his big break as an actor on the successful western series Rawhide.

His star rose with such roles as the Man With No Name in the Dollars Trilogy, as well as the title character in the bad cop classic Dirty Harry. 

In 1971, the year Dirty Harry was released, he also made his directorial debut with the thriller Play Misty For Me, starring him opposite Jessica Walter and Donna Mills. 

It emerged this April that Eastwood has completed Juror No. 2, which is rumored to be the final movie the legendary filmmaker will direct. 

The Unforgiven star – who was seen looking frail this March – cast Nicholas Hoult as a man who comes to a chilling realization while sitting on a jury. 

Gradually, it dawns on the character that he may have been culpable in the car accident that killed the person whose homicide is being tried.

He finds himself in the nail-biting position of having to decide whether to keep his own name clear or help the innocent defendant get acquitted.

Postproduction wrapped on the movie in the spring, and sources told Variety that its studio, Warner Bros, was ‘thrilled’ by the footage it was shown.

Hoult is at the head of a formidable cast that includes Toni Collette, Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, JK Simmons, Leslie Bibb and Chris Messina.

The movie had a tumultuous road to completion, as the shoot had to be stopped for months last year because of the Hollywood strikes.

Furthermore, a number of studios reportedly rejected the project before Eastwood was able to find it a home at Warner Bros.