{"id":8913,"date":"2024-05-20T17:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2024-05-20T17:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:25:53","slug":"clint-eastwood-had-no-idea-he-had-a-daughter-who-had-been-secretly-put-up-for-adoption-she-found-him-30-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=8913","title":{"rendered":"Clint Eastwood had no idea he had a daughter who had been secretly put up for adoption \u2013 she found him 30 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Eastwood\u2018s been around for so long that there\u2019s barely an inch of his life that hasn\u2019t been published in one newspaper or another.<\/p>\n<p>A titan of the big screen, it\u2019s sometimes difficult to imagine that the legendary actor is now 92 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that he\u2019s seen and done it all, both in a professional capacity and a private one. Secrets, show-biz drama and salacious scandals, given that Clint has lived for almost 70 years in the searing spotlight, it\u2019s unsurprising that he\u2019s encountered his fair share of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet perhaps the biggest shock of his long life is one that not everyone is clued in on. Indeed, it\u2019s one that the actor himself didn\u2019t know about for a great many years.<\/p>\n<p>When he found out, though, it would change his life in a big way \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clint Eastwood <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nf7WHFEn23\">pic.twitter.com\/Nf7WHFEn23<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrea (@andrea_drea05) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrea_drea05\/status\/1592454920195932160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Standing 6ft 4 in tall and possessive of rugged good looks and an oft-piercing gaze, it\u2019s no great surprise that Clint Eastwood enjoyed the admiration of many a lady when he was in his prime.<\/p>\n<p>All told, the actor is father to eight children, though for a long while he had no idea that was the case. No, Clint believed he had seven children for most of his life, until one day a woman claiming to be his daughter took him by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>As per reports, while engaged to Maggie Johnson in the early 1950s \u2013 and before he became the illustrious name he is now \u2013 Eastwood had an affair with a woman in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>What he wasn\u2019t to know was that she fell pregnant with his child, which she then put up for adoption after their relationship ended and they went their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>The child, a baby girl named Laurie Murray, was adopted by a couple in Seattle, but years later decided she wanted to find out who her biological parents were.<\/p>\n<p>A family friend told the Daily Mail newspaper back in 2018: \u201cThis all happened around 30 years ago. Laurie Murray had been really interested in finding out who her real parents were and hired someone to help her. When they found the paperwork, her biological mother had written down Clint Eastwood\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what it appeared, Clint Eastwood had no idea that she was even pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How Laurie Murray found out her father was Clint Eastwood <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FU7GIMwTTa\">https:\/\/t.co\/FU7GIMwTTa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rw4MIwnH6L\">pic.twitter.com\/Rw4MIwnH6L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HollywoodLife (@HollywoodLife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollywoodLife\/status\/1073276421882011649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They added: \u201cI don\u2019t think she had the best upbringing, certainly not privileged. When she found her biological parents, she reached out to her mother but she didn\u2019t want to be contacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Clint was more receptive to his biological daughter\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt obviously came as a great shock to Laurie but I believe that Clint was extremely receptive to her and the situation,\u201d said the family friend.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie and Clint grew closer as the years passed, and she eventually became a regular fixture on family vacations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRM3IdQFWzV\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRM3IdQFWzV\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRM3IdQFWzV\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Clint Eastwood\ud83d\udd35 (@iamclint_eastwood)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The public first became aware of Clint\u2019s mystery eighth child when the actor\u2019s biographer, Patrick McGilligan, mentioned Eastwood\u2019s relationship with Laurie\u2019s biological mother in the book Clint: The Life and Legend.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Inside Edition, McGilligan said: \u201cI think when he discovered she was his daughter and realized she was that person from long before \u2026 he was okay with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aforesaid Daily Mail source revealed: \u201cLaurie and her family are wealthy in their own right. So it wasn\u2019t a situation, which I\u2019m sure someone like Clint Eastwood is used to, of someone crawling out of the woodwork looking for money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaurie is a very nice woman and very private, she definitely doesn\u2019t go around telling people this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CEA-768x403-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CEA-768x403-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CEA-768x403-1-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><br \/>\nCredit \/ Getty Images \/<br \/>\ngotpap\/Bauer-Griffin \/ Contributor<\/p>\n<p>Clint has eight children all told; a son, Kyle, and a daughter named Alison from his marriage to Maggie Johnson; a daughter named Kimber, who he had with Roxanne Tunis \u2013 he had an affair with Tunis while married to Johnson; Scott and Kathryn, with former girlfriend Jacelyn Reeves; a daughter, Francesca, with Frances Fisher; and a son named Morgan, who he had with current wife Dina Ruiz.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a fan of Clint Eastwood? How crazy is it that he went all thos e years not knowing he actually had more children than he thought!<\/p>\n<p>Please, share this article on Facebook if you\u2019re a Clint Eastwood fan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Eastwood\u2018s been around for so long that there\u2019s barely an inch of his life that hasn\u2019t been published in one newspaper or another. A titan of the big screen, it\u2019s sometimes difficult to imagine that the legendary actor is now 92 years old. 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