Eastwood splits from wife of 17 years

Clint Eastwood and his wife, Dina Ruiz, are going their separate ways.

The four-time Oscar- winning actor/director, 83, and the former TV reporter, 48, have split after more than 17 years of married life, Ruiz told Us Weekly.

Eastwood’s manager, Leonard Hirshan, said he would not comment on the star’s personal life.

The couple met in 1993 when Ruiz interviewed the Unforgiven star for a local TV station. At the time, Ruiz thought the much-older Eastwood would be a perfect match… for her mother.

“I thought he’d find my mom attractive because she’s a petite redhead and he’d been going out with similar women like Frances Fisher and Sondra Locke,” she told the Daily Mail in 2012.

“So nothing happened, but then a year later we were sat together at a function. It was bizarre: We started holding hands underneath the table and just never let go.”

The couple, who married not long after Eastwood’s hit The Bridges of Madison County was released, have one daughter, Morgan, 16.

Eastwood has seven other children from previous relationships, including the actress, Francesca Eastwood, 20. Ruiz, Morgan, and Francesca all starred in the 2012 reality show Mrs. Eastwood & Company, which followed their lives and Ruiz’s work as manager of a cappella group The Overtones.