Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Shawn Levy's new Clint Eastwood biography,Clint: The Man and The Movies, includes details about the actor-filmmaker's personal and professional life The book recounts the Oscar winner's marriages, long-term relationships and many affairs with women Eastwood's extramarital trysts, he was quoted as saying, became "addictive" Clint Eastwoodis the subject of a new biography that lays bare many ofhis marital — and extramarital — relationships. Shawn Levy'sClint: 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 andDina Ruiz, and other long-term partnerships, includingSondra LockeandFrances Fisher. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has eight knownchildrenwith six women. "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 toldPhotoplayin 1963. "She had to accept that, because if she didn't, we wouldn't be married." PEOPLE is out to Eastwood for comment on Levy's book. 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 biographerRichard 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.) Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. TheRawhideactor'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 inClint 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 toldPlayboythat he believed Johnson was "a woman who knows how much room I need." Clint: The Man and The Moviesalleges 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. The biography also recounts Eastwood's affair with Locke, who he cast in his 1975 filmThe 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. 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, perVanity Fair, though the filmmaker denied the allegations. "Funny how it never even crossed my mind to ask him to have surgery," she wrote. One interview Eastwood gave, recounted in the biography, involved a night of debauchery with jazz legendMiles 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." In describing Eastwood's seductive ways,Clintalso 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." Clint: The Man and The Movies, from Harper Collins, is available for purchase now. Read the original article onPeople
