Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood’s longtime partner, died at the age of 61.

In 2014, Christina and Clint began dating soon after meeting at his restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

In Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Clint and Christina met for the first time at his Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant.

As a hostess, Sandera worked at the restaurant.

Their relationship lasted ten years after they started dating.

On Thursday night, Clint Eastwood said in a statement, “Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much.”

Warner Bros. told the press that Clint would not be giving out any more details about Christina’s death because he wants to grieve in private.

Clint was married twice before he started dating Christina. The first time was to model Maggie Johnson from 1953 to 1987, and the second time was to news anchor Dina Ruiz from 1996 to 2004.

He has also been in a number of public, long-term relationships with other Hollywood stars, such as Frances Fisher, who played Rose in “The Titanic,” and Sondra Locke, who played Rose in “The Gauntlet.”

Additionally, the famous actor or actress has a big family with eight kids.

His youngest child, Morgan, just got married, and he marched her down the aisle.

Clint is a dad to Morgan, Kyle, Scott, Laurie, Kimber, Alison, Kathryn, and Francesca, as well as sons Kyle and Scott.

Laurie is his oldest child; Morgan is his youngest. Laurie was born in 1954 and Morgan was born in 1996.

People didn’t talk much about Clint Eastwood and Christina Sandera’s relationship over the last ten years, so not much is known about it.

Christina didn’t like being in the spotlight, even though she and Brad went to a lot of big events together, like the Academy Awards.

She wasn’t on any public social networks, and she never talked about their relationship in public.

People reported in 2004 that Clint told CBS News, “There are other people involved, and they’re weak people.”

“I can protect myself, but they can’t,” said he.

Clint and Christina, who both turned 94 on May 31, found things they had in common, even though they were 33 years apart in age.

The two were sometimes seen doing things together, like going grocery shopping in June 2014.

She was also with Clint at the Oscars in 2015, at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017, and at a showing of Clint’s movie Sully in 2016.

Along with some of Clint’s children, his first wife, and his granddaughter, she even went to the premiere of his movie The Mule in 2018.

Clint’s newest Hollywood project, Juror No. 2, is in the post-production phase right now.

This is his 40th movie as a director and his first movie since Cry Macho, which came out in 2021.