Clint Eastwood’s partner Christina Sandera dead at 61: Oscar-winner, 94, pays heartbreaking tribute: ‘I will miss her very much’
Clint Eastwood’s longtime partner Christina Sandera has died aged 61.
The Oscar-winning actor and director, 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.
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 the $20million mansion he had built for ex Dina months earlier.
They were last seen publicly together in 2019 – with the pair posing in November 2022 with Clint’s daughters in a final social media snap.
The same insider told an entertainment magazine that Eastwood was ‘with Christina and happy’.
‘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.
Sandera was previously married to Paul Wainscoat in 2003 for just 11 months – and the former couple had a turbulent union which resulted in Sandera being arrested for domestic battery.
Wainscoat told The National Enquirer in 2015 that on July 17, 2002, just two months after he began dating Sandera, she became enraged when he refused to move in with her, and when he tried to leave ‘grabbed onto his shirt and scratched his neck to prevent him.’
He managed to call the police, who in their report, noted a ‘strong odor’ of alcohol on Sandera’s breath as they arrested her for domestic battery.
The couple still married eight months later though, after, according to Wainscoat, he spent $80,000 on the couple’s honeymoon and jewelry and ‘dental work’ for his bride.
A few months after they married another physical fight broke out between the pair, with Wainscoat claiming that this time Sandera went into a rage as she was ‘distraught due to the recent death of one of her cats.’
He claims she began screaming at him ‘Where are my kittens?’ and then began hitting him with a closed fist before throwing ‘a full bottle of Gatorade, which hit him in the back of the head.’
He says he did not file charges on account of her ‘drinking.’
The marriage finally blew up in June 2003, when police responded to another domestic disturbance with Wainscoat claiming he was ‘being battered by his wife.’
In court papers Sandera said she was not an alcoholic but had quit booze and attended AA meetings.
In addition, Sandera said she attended ’15 anger management classes.’
Eastwood is father to eight children by six different women.