Eastwood launches €9m lawsuit

Actor Clint Eastwood has launched a €9m court action over an unauthorised biography which he says portrays him as an wife beater.

In the action, which was filed in San Jose, California, on Christmas Eve, Eastwood accuses St Martin’s Press and author Patrick McGilligan of lying about him and “setting out intentionally to destroy his reputation both as a maker of motion pictures and as a man.”