Christina Sandera, the companion of Clint Eastwood for the past decade, has died, the actor-director announced. She was 61.
“Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,” he said in a statement released Thursday night. A Warner Bros. spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter that no further information would be forthcoming.
They were very quiet about their relationship.
The pair reportedly met when she was working as a hostess at Eastwood’s Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and started dating in 2014.
A longtime Carmel resident, she accompanied the onetime Carmel mayor to the 2015 Academy Awards when American Sniper was up for six Oscars including best picture and on the red carpet for Sully (2016), The Mule (2018), The 15:17 to Paris (2018) and Richard Jewell (2019).
Eastwood, 94, has been married twice, to model Maggie Johnson (they wed in 1953, split in 1964 and divorced in 1984) and to TV news anchor Dina Ruiz (from 1996 until their 2014 divorce).
His other long relationships included those with stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis, Oscar-nominated actress Sondra Locke (they were domestic partners for 14 years and made four movies together), flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves and actress Frances Fisher (they were together for five years and did four films together, too).
Eastwood’s 40th film as a director, Juror No. 2, a project that was announced in April 2023, is in postproduction.
Christina Sandera and Clint Eastwood at the premiere of The Mule in December 2018.
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