The terms of the settlement of the second lawsuit lodged against this permanent A++ Oscar winning/Oscar nominated actor/director/producer by his former partner a deceased actress/director were very generous for the plaintiff.
What tipped the scales were telephone recordings as leverage where the A++ actor had been goaded into talking about his military service. He has always talked in a way that made it sound like he’d seen more action than he did.
Specifically he admitted to
1.) Using his commanding officer’s daughter whom he was in a relationship with to pull strings so he wasn’t sent to where there was any actual fighting
2.) Freaking out in an embarrassing way far removed from his screen persona during a potentially life threatening incident that ended up not being so bad.
He had to be restrained by others who thought he was behaving hysterically during this.
Clint Eastwood
Former partner – deceased actress/director: Sondra Locke
Sandra Louise Anderson, professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director. She made her film debut in 1968 in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Korean War
Eastwood held a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, and golf caddy. Eastwood said that he tried to enroll at Seattle University in 1951, but instead was drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. “He always dropped the Korean War reference, hoping everyone would conclude that he was in combat and might be some sort of hero. Actually, he’d been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military,” said Eastwood’s former longtime companion Sondra Locke. Don Loomis recalled hearing that Eastwood was romancing one of the daughters of a Fort Ord officer, who might have been entreated to watch out for him when names came up for postings. While returning from a prearranged tryst in Seattle, Washington, he was a passenger on a Douglas AD bomber that ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near Point Reyes. Using a life raft, he and the pilot swam 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) to safety. Source
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Sondra Locke: Actor whose career was overshadowed by her association with Clint Eastwood
In 1972 she spoke to Clint Eastwood about a role in his film Breezy. Despite turning her down for Kay Lenz – at 27 Locke was too old to play a 17-year-old, Eastwood remembered Locke’s talent and in 1975 invited her to meet.
The pair clicked. She then was cast in 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, the first of six movies the Locke would star in as Eastwood’s sidekick. Others included Bronco Billy (1980) and Sudden Impact (1983).
The couple became inseparable and lived together for 13 years, although Eastwood was still married to his first wife, Maggie Johnson. Nine years into Eastwood’s affair with Locke, who was 14 years his junior, he finally divorced Johnson.
Locke said: “I seemed to bring out the little boy in him. And although he loved me for my childlike nature, he brought out the woman in me.”
Her very headstrong and independent demeanour, however, would prove to be her demise. Tired of playing second fiddle, she decided to make her own directorial debut.
Eastwood at first supported her ambitions, helping her with the rather odd film Ratboy (1986). However, multiple factors in their relationship, Locke’s independence among them, contributed to a breakup that would see Eastwood emerge without criticism and Locke struggle with lawsuits against him.
On her directing, Locke said: “I understood it would be at the risk of our relationship. And when I did, that was the beginning of the end.”
The end was particularly messy, with Eastwood kicking her out of their home.
Locke sued him for palimony. Halfway through the lawsuit Locke learned she had breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy as well as chemotherapy. She settled out of court for a directing deal with Warner Bros, as well as a hefty sum – and the house she lived in with Eastwood.
Locke later filed another lawsuit for fraud after 30 projects were turned down by the company.
“My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I’d cut my time with Clint in half,” she said. “I wouldn’t say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I’d found a way, I’d understood who he was, where it would end, five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.” – Source
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