The Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood is preparing to turn 95 on May 31. Now, he has reemerged just two weeks before this landmark birthday.
Eastwood Reemerges Ahead Of Birthday
Daily Mail has obtained the most recent photos of Eastwood. Taken in October, they show the actor and director at Mission Ranch, the hotel and restaurant he purchased in the 1980s.
Eastwood can be seen with unkempt hair and a scruffy beard as he chats with friends in the bar area. He has his arm around the general manager of Mission Ranch, and they’re both talking to a piano player.
Check out the images for yourself here.
Eastwood’s Busy And Difficult 2024
While Eastwood has been laying low over the past few months, 2024 was a busy and difficult year for him. It saw the release of Juror #2, which many believe will be his final directorial movie.
Sadly, 2024 also saw the death of Eastwood’s longtime girlfriend Christina Sandera. She died on July 18 at the age of 61 of cardiac arrhythmia, having suffered from atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. Sandera had originally been a hostess at Mission Ranch, and Eastwood had been dating her for ten years at the time of her death.
“Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,” Eastwood said at the time of her passing.
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Eastwood Struggling With Sandera’s Death
Months later, insiders close to Eastwood revealed that he was struggling with Sandera’s death.
“Clint is having a hard time dealing with all the recent lows in his life,” a source close to Eastwood told Daily Mail in October. The insider added that Eastwood is “pretty sad about losing his girlfriend three months ago. To say he is feeling down is a gross understatement.”
“He was really in love with her and they got along well,” the source continued. “He would tell his pals that he wished he had met her much sooner like when he was in his 30s….he wanted more time with her.”
Eastwood reportedly “loved Christina because there was no drama with her, she was so easy to be with. She didn’t want to become a reality TV star and she was not an actress. There was no agenda at all and he appreciated that. A lot of women Clint has been with wanted something from him, but Christina didn’t.”
Earlier this year, Eastwood’s son Scott said that his dad was “doing okay” in the wake of Sandera’s death.
Over the past few months, Eastwood has been staying out of the spotlight. He’s spent much of his time at his home in Tehama. This is a gated, 2,000-acre community that Eastwood developed in the 1980s in the hills above Carmel.
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Eastwood Is Still Beloved In Carmel
Nevertheless, locals in Carmel still get a thrill seeing Eastwood out and about running errands. Eastwood was famously mayor of Carmel in the 1980s after winning an election in a landslide. Eastwood was also known by locals for owning Hog’s Breath Inn, a rustic pub in downtown Carmel, for 27 years before selling it in the late 1990s.
Lee Morcus is the current owner of Hog’s Breath Inn. He considers Eastwood to be a close friend. In fact, he’s currently remodeling the restaurant in a way that “honors Clint’s legacy and his commitment and contributions to the community.”
“Ninety-five, that’s a hell of a milestone, a heck of a run,” said Morcus, 67. “He’s one of the smartest men I’ve ever met. He understands the human condition as well as anybody, which is why his movies are so successful. But he’s also just a regular guy, just an amazing guy.”
“When we played golf, he’d give us the needle just like anybody else, and we’d kind of throw it back at him too. He’s got an amazing sense of humor, very dry, wicked and sly,” Morcus continued. “I remember one night we were having a glass of wine together, and I’d just seen Million Dollar Baby. I told him that movie made me cry and he smiled because he knew it made everybody cry. He said, ‘Well I’m working on another movie that’s going to be a little more uplifting.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, you’ll probably make me cry with that one too,’ and he just smiled.”
Eastwood is a true legend, and there will never be another one like him. We’d like to wish him a very happy 95th birthday, and many more to come!
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