Clint Eastwood & Dina Ruiz separate, shes already got a new piece
Here’s a photo of Clint Eastwood on Tuesday on the set of his newest directing project, Jersey Boys, in Los Angeles. I think the movie is a film version of the stage musical, but all I can think of with that title is, you know, “Jersey Shore.” But I have to give Eastwood at least a little credit than to think he’d make a movie about a bunch of orange juiceheads.
On the personal front, Mr. Eastwood’s life is still a relative mess at least as far as his marriage is concerned. Clint and former newscaster Dina Ruiz have been married for 17 years, but it’s been rumored that they have lived apart for the better part of a year. These troubles follow Dina’s insistence upon showcasing the family in a doomsday reality show that Clint wanted no part of. The two were said to not even be speaking in March at his daughter’s wedding. About a month later, Dina checked into rehab for (alleged) depression and anxiety issues. Now Us Weekly has gotten wind from Dina’s people that she and Clint are formally separated. As for Clint, his rep claims to know nothing about any of this. Uh-oh:
Maybe Clint Eastwood just isn’t the marrying kind. The Dirty Harry actor, 83, has separated from second wife Dina Eastwood (nee Ruiz) after 17 years of marriage, Dina confirms exclusively to Us Weekly.
(Eastwood’s manager, when contacted about the split by Us, said only, “I know nothing about that.”)
The former TV news reporter, 48, says that she and Eastwood remain close but have been living separately for some time. In fact, a source tells Us the two actually split more than a year ago, in June 2012. “Clint fell out of love with Dina a long time ago,” the insider says, noting that the separation was “amicable.”
Married since March 31, 1996, Dina and the Million Dollar Baby director have one daughter together, 16-year-old Morgan. Eastwood is also dad to seven other kids, though he has only been married once before. (He and first wife Maggie Johnson had a daughter, Alison, and a son, Kyle; the rest of his kids are from other relationships.)
Morgan and Dina appeared together — along with Eastwood’s daughter Francesca, from his relationship with Titanic actress Frances Fisher — on the E! reality series “Mrs. Eastwood & Company.” The show — which ran for one season in 2012 — followed their lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., where Eastwood was mayor from 1986 to 1988.
[From Us Weekly]
Interesting how Dina’s people released this story while Clint seems clueless, right? Well this week’s issue of the Enquirer has published a serendipidous story about how Dina is totally over her marriage and has already found herself a jumpoff in the form of her high school boyfriend. This dude is a 50-year-old “strapping athlete,” Scott Fisher, who is the University of Hawaii assistant basketball coach. Supposedly, “Dina is in love with Scott. It’s like high school all over again.” The Enquirer says that Scott was recently Dina’s personal guest at Clint’s beach mansion in Hawaii while Clint did pre-production duties for Jersey Boys. Dina supposedly told Clint that she and Scott were only friends, but “Clint knew better.”
I think it’s fairly obvious that Dina and Clint have been all but over for at least the past year, and the fact that Dina flew to Hawaii on what would have been Clint’s 83rd birthday was pretty much the last straw. That’s cold.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet
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