While still with Sondra Locke and at the end of his relationship with Jacelyn Reeves, Eastwood met British-born actress Frances Fisher, whom he met in 1988 while making Pink Cadillac. In fact, Eastwood and Fisher were already having a torrid affair as his relationship with Sondra Locke entered its final phase inevitably, both women were ignorant of the other`s existence.
With Locke out of the way, Eastwood and Fisher`s relationship moved up a gear, and before long they were living together. For a time they seemed inseparable, and in 1993 Fisher presented the 62-year-old Eastwood with a baby daughter, Francesca. Eastwood had always taken care of his children financially, but this was the first time he made a point of being present for the birth of one of them.
For the first few months of the child`s life, Eastwood seemed every inch the doting, attentive father. But Eastwood being Eastwood, it suddenly turned sour, this time because of his other notorious character trait: tightness with money.
While working on a film in Texas, Fisher was forced to return to Los Angeles on urgent business and chartered a plane. She temporarily charged it to Eastwood`s credit card. A short time later, she accompanied Eastwood to the Cannes Film Festival. On a stopover in Paris, she bought a $10,000 set of designer luggage, again on Eastwood`s credit card.
When they returned home, Eastwood was incensed to find the credit card bills on his doormat. Though Fisher settled the bills herself, Eastwood whose crowning movie glory is called, ironically, Unforgiven got back at her in tried and tested fashion: he froze her out.
When it came to the making of his next film, the romantic drama The Bridges of Madison County, co-starring one of Fisher`s idols, Meryl Streep (with whom, it is rumoured, Eastwood had a brief fling), Fisher was told there would be no role, no matter how small, for her. What`s more, Eastwood barred Fisher from the movie`s Iowa locations until Streep had completed filming her scenes.
The time had come for Eastwood to move on again, and the familiar pattern of cold-shouldering his current partner, while at the same time very visibly smooching up to other women, re-emerged.
Eventually, Fisher got the message and moved out of their shared home ... the very same Bel Air pad Eastwood had repossessed from Sondra Locke a few years before.
Like countless women before her, Frances Fisher has probably received the standard Eastwood post-coital compensation: a hefty sum and/or carefully monitored regular payments in return for a promise not to blab to the media.
Information Source: www.independent.ie/national-news/clint-the-man-with-no-shame-411398.html
| Where/How First Met |
on the set of Pink Cadillac |
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