Clint Eastwood‘s longtime partner Christina Sandera has died aged 61.
The Oscar-winning actor, 94, confirmed the tragic news in a heartbreaking statement on Thursday.
The pair had been in a relationship since 2014.
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.
Clint Eastwood’s longtime partner Christina Sandera has died aged 61 – pictured in 2015
Eastwood said: ‘Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much’ – pictured 2016
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 his home months earlier.
She was previously married to Paul Wainscoat in 2003.
The same insider told an entertainment magazine that Eastwood was ‘with Christina and happy’.
So happy that he had introduced her to his family. ‘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.
The legendary actor is father to eight children by six different women.
Eastwood and Christina are pictured in a November 2022 family snap with his daughters Francesca and Morgan
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
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
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, whose age is unknown, 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.