Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood’s lifelong partner, has away at the age of 61.
In a devastating statement on Thursday, the 94-year-old Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker announced the tragic news.
The relationship between the two began in 2014.
“Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,” Eastwood remarked.
As Eastwood mourns the loss in private, a Warner Bros. representative informed THR that no other details regarding Christina’s passing would be released.
Clint Eastwood’s longtime partner Christina Sandera has died aged 61 – pictured in 2015
According to Eastwood, “Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,” – taken in 2016.
While working as a restaurant hostess at Eastwood’s hotel, the Mission Ranch in Carmel, California, in 2014, Sandera got to know Eastwood.
Their romance took off immediately, despite the fact that they were 33 years apart in age.
She supported Eastwood at a number of award shows and film premieres, despite the fact that little was known about their relationship.
She made her red carpet debut beside him at the 2015 Oscars, where the star’s drama American Sniper was nominated for six categories.
Insiders claim that months before Sandera and her ex-girlfriend Dina were first seen together in June 2014, Sandera had relocated into the $20 million mansion Eastwood had built for her.
The couple’s final public appearance together in 2019 was a November 2022 social media snapshot in which they posed with Clint’s daughters.
The same individual told an entertainment outlet that Eastwood was “happy and with Christina.”
“Clint’s kids have all met Christina and like her,” the source claims, and they all thought she was “normal.”
Eastwood and Christina were last pictured together in a November 2022 family snap with his daughters Francesca (third left) and Morgan (second right)
Little was publicly known about their romance but she did support Eastwood at various film premieres and awards shows – they are pictured in Cannes in 2017
The couple looked smitten at a screening of Sully in 2016
Eastwood and Sandera met when she worked as a restaurant hostess at Eastwood’s hotel, the Mission Ranch, in Carmel, California in 2014 – pictured 2015
After Sandera was arrested for domestic assault in 2002 for allegedly hitting her ex-husband Paul Wainscoat, the incident came back into the public eye when she began dating Eastwood.
Eastwood and his second wife, Dina, began dating a year after their 17-year marriage ended.
Sandera had previously been married to Paul Wainscoat for approximately 11 months in 2003. Sandera was arrested for domestic abuse as a result of their turbulent marriage.
Wainscoat told The National Enquirer on July 17, 2002, two months after he began dating Sandera, that she was upset when he wouldn’t move in with her. He tried to get away, but she “grabbed onto his shirt and scratched his neck to prevent him.”
He was able to get in touch with the police, who reported that Sandera had a “strong odor” of alcohol on her breath and arrested her for domestic abuse.
However, after Wainscoat allegedly spent $80,000 on jewelry, “dental work” for his fiancee, and the honeymoon, the couple was married eight months later.
Sandera was “distraught due to the recent death of one of her cats,” according to Wainscoat, which led to another physical argument with Sandera a few months after they were married.
She allegedly began shouting, “Where are my kittens?” at him. He struck him with a closed fist before throwing “a full bottle of Gatorade, which hit him in the back of the head.”
Due of her “drinking,” he says, he did not file charges.The marriage finally broke down after Wainscoat claimed he was “being battered by his wife” when police arrived at another domestic incident in June 2003.
In court filings, Sandera stated that she was not an alcoholic despite having quit drinking and attending AA meetings.
Additionally, Sandera stated that she had completed “15 anger management classes.”
Eastwood’s eight children are the product of six different women.
The couple last attended a public event together in November 2019
The pair are seen together at the 2018 premiere of The Mule – which Eastwood’s children also attended
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.’
A year after divorcing his second wife, Dina (seen 2010), Eastwood began dating Sandera.
Clint and his family reacted well to the news. In 2004, he took Laurie to the Oscars, and as adults, they had become close through golf.
Kimber Lynn, Clint’s second oldest child, is 59 years old and a professional makeup artist in Hollywood. She was born in 1964 during Clint’s romance with Roxanne Tunis, a dancer and actress who died last year at the age of 93.
Clint and flight attendant Jocelyn Reeves, whom he dated from 1985 to 1990, have a 36-year-old daughter named Kathryn and a son named Scott.
In the early 1990s, while he was dating 72-year-old Titanic actor Frances Fisher, his second youngest child, daughter Francesca Eastwood, was born.
Clint moved on with 60-year-old actress and model Christina Sandera in 2014 following his breakup with Dina in 2012. The pair resides in California and is still together.
The couple attended the 2016 New York premiere of Sully hand-in-hand
In August 2023 Eastwood is said to have had a ‘very emotional’ reaction to the passing of his ex-mistress Roxanne Tunis – with whom he shared daughter Kimber
Kimber Eastwood is seen with Roxanne
Clint and Roxanne started their whirlwind romance while he was still married to his first wife, Maggie Johnson (seen together in 1960) and it reportedly went on for 14 years
He also had two children with a flight attendant named Jacelyn Reeves – a son, named Scott, in 1986, and a daughter, named Kathryn, in 1988. Jacelyn is seen with Scott in 2016
In the ’90s, the Hollywood legend dated actress Frances Fisher, and together, they welcomed a daughter named Francesca, in 1993. Clint is seen with Francesca and Frances in 2017
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.