Clint Eastwood has had numerous casual and serious relationships of varying length and intensity over his life, many of which overlapped. He has eight known children by six women, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] only half of whom were contemporaneously acknowledged. Eastwood refuses to confirm his exact number of offspring, [ 3 ] and there have been wide discrepancies in the media regarding the number.
His biographer, Patrick McGilligan , has stated on camera that Eastwood's total number of children is indeterminate and that "one was when he was still in high school. Eastwood's first marriage was to manufacturing secretary-turned-fitness instructor Margaret Neville Johnson in December , having met her on a blind date the previous May.
During the courtship, he had an affair that resulted in his daughter Laurie born , who was adopted by Clyde and Helen Warren of Seattle. While the identity of Laurie's biological mother is not public record, McGilligan said the mother belonged to a theatre group Eastwood participated in.
Tunis and Eastwood would keep up a "healthy relationship" until her death in Johnson tolerated the open marriage with Eastwood, and eventually they had two children, Kyle born and Alison born In , Eastwood and married actress-director Sondra Locke began living together; she had been in a marriage of convenience since with Gordon Leigh Anderson, an unemployed homosexual.
Locke claimed that Eastwood sang "She made me monogamous" to her and confided he had "never been in love before. According to Bill Brown, publisher of the Carmel Pine Cone , Eastwood considered Locke the love of his life, [ 8 ] yet he has never addressed her death.
