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- Clint Eastwood's 'Addictive' Affairs Detailed in New Biography: 'I Was Going to Do as I Pleased'</p>
<p>Jack Smart, Grace Jordan-WeinsteinJuly 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM</p>
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<p>Clint Eastwood in 1978</p>
<p>Shawn Levy's new Clint Eastwood biography, Clint: The Man and The Movies, includes details about the actor-filmmaker's personal and professional life</p>
<p>The book recounts the Oscar winner's marriages, long-term relationships and many affairs with women</p>
<p>Eastwood's extramarital trysts, he was quoted as saying, became "addictive"</p>
<p>Clint Eastwood is the subject of a new biography that lays bare many of his marital — and extramarital — relationships.</p>
<p>Shawn Levy's Clint: The Man and The Movies (on bookshelves July 1) collects quotes from Eastwood, 95, and many of his contemporaries to shed light on his marriages, with Maggie Johnson and Dina Ruiz, and other long-term partnerships, including Sondra Locke and Frances Fisher. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has eight known children with six women.</p>
<p>"By many accounts, including his own, he more or less comported himself as if he were a bachelor," writes Levy of Eastwood's first marriage to Johnson, which lasted from 1953 to 1984. During that time he had multiple affairs, which the biography claims Johnson was aware of. "One thing Mag had to learn about me was that I was going to do as I pleased," the filmmaker told Photoplay in 1963. "She had to accept that, because if she didn't, we wouldn't be married."</p>
<p>PEOPLE is out to Eastwood for comment on Levy's book.</p>
<p>Joe Shere/Archive Photos/Getty Clint Eastwood and Maggie Johnson circa 1960</p>
<p>Eastwood was also quoted as saying, "I'm independent, a vagabond, and [Johnson] accepts me as I am and doesn't strangle me with female possessiveness." His many extramarital trysts, he admitted to his authorized biographer Richard Schickel, "just became… I don't know… addictive… like you have to have another cigarette." (Schickel's book, Clint Eastwood: A Biography, was released in 1997 and features interviews with the star.)</p>
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<p>The Rawhide actor's flings ranged from casual to serious enough to include children; he and stuntwoman Roxanne Tunis welcomed his second daughter, Kimber Lynn, in 1964, while he was married to Johnson. It's unclear if Johnson was aware of the affair, although in Clint Eastwood: A Biography, the couple's friend Fritz Manes said that Johnson had once asked if he thought her husband was "playing around." Manes admitted to lying about Eastwood's affairs to reassure her, and Johnson said she preferred not to "dwell on it." Looking back on their relationship years later, Eastwood told Playboy that he believed Johnson was "a woman who knows how much room I need."</p>
<p>Clint: The Man and The Movies alleges Eastwood picked up women in his acting classes, on studio lots where he worked and in the neighborhood and even apartment complex he shared with his first wife.</p>
<p>The biography also recounts Eastwood's affair with Locke, who he cast in his 1975 film The Outlaw Josey Wales. In her 1997 autobiography, The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey, Locke alleged that Eastwood said "there was no real relationship left" between him and Johnson.</p>
<p>After Eastwood and Locke's relationship ended in 1989, she alleged in her book that she had had two abortions and a tubal ligation, as Eastwood told her he didn't want any more children, per Vanity Fair, though the filmmaker denied the allegations. "Funny how it never even crossed my mind to ask him to have surgery," she wrote.</p>
<p>One interview Eastwood gave, recounted in the biography, involved a night of debauchery with jazz legend Miles Davis. After one of Davis' concerts, Eastwood recalled, "He came over and said, 'Let's go out and get some bitches' … So we went out and screwed off."</p>
<p>Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke in 1988</p>
<p>In describing Eastwood's seductive ways, Clint also mentions a 1986 PEOPLE interview with Mamie Van Doren, a classmate of his at Universal Talent School (UTS). The rising star "was always straight and direct," she quipped. "He always knew the most straight and direct path to my dressing room."</p>
<p>Clint: The Man and The Movies, from Harper Collins, is available for purchase now.</p>
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