Eastwood, 83, splits from his second wife Dina, aged 48
CLINT Eastwood has separated from his second wife Dina after 17 years.
The 83-year-old ‘Dirty Harry’ star’s split was confirmed yesterday by Mrs Eastwood, 48, following months of speculation.
She said that although the couple have been apart for some time, they remain ‘close’ and their parting was ‘amicable.’
‘Clint fell out of love with Dina a long time ago,’ an insider told Us Weekly magazine. They have reportedly been living separate lives since June 2012.
Eastwood has been married only
‘Fell out of love a long time ago’
twice but has seven children by five different women, including 16- year- old Morgan, Mrs Eastwood’s daughter.
He was married to model Maggie Johnson for 31 years, and lived with actress Sondra Locke, his co-star in The Outlaw Josey Wales and five other films, for 14 years.
Eastwood met the latest Mrs Eastwood, a former TV reporter, when she interviewed him in 1993.
They married in 1996, when the actor surprised her with a private ceremony at the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.
After their wedding, Mrs Eastwood said: ‘The fact that I am only the second woman he has married really touches me.’
Eastwood said of his wife: ‘As far as I’m concerned, this is the woman I like monogamy with.’
But he has previously voiced negative views on marriage. He once said: ‘There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.’
Speculation that the marriage was on the rocks began in April when Eastwood appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York without his wedding ring.
The couple had not been photographed together since November 2011 and they reportedly had a row at his 41-year-old daughter Alison’s wedding in March. Earlier this year, Mrs Eastwood is believed to have checked herself into rehab for problems with ‘depression and anxiety’. According to reports, she was not being treated for substance abuse.
Last year Mrs Eastwood, her daughter Morgan and stepdaughter Francesca Fisher-Eastwood starred in a reality TV show called Mrs Eastwood & Company, inviting cameras into the family’s California home to show off her life with her two girls. Francesca, 20, is Eastwood’s daughter from his relationship with Titanic actress Frances Fisher.
Eastwood was unavailable for comment last night.