↑ It is not clear how many children Eastwood has fathered. When Steve Kroft asked him "How many do you have?" in a November 16, 1997 segment on 60 Minutes, he said, without further elaboration, "I have a few."[3] In a January 14, 2009 interview on Late Show with David Letterman, David Letterman said to Eastwood, "You have uh–is it seven children?" to which he replied "Uh, at least."[4][5] Furthermore, Eastwood's daughter Alison stated in an August 7, 2011 article in The Sunday Times, "My dad has eight children by six women."[6] However, until December 2018 (when 8 children were photographed together) only seven children by five women were accounted for.[7]
↑ There have been wide discrepancies in the media as to how many children Eastwood has:
May 1989 articles from the Los Angeles Times[8] and People magazine,[9] both error-ridden (e.g., Locke's age) cite Eastwood as having only two children.
A March 1999 People article[10] mentions in passing that Eastwood has five children.
Only four children are acknowledged in Eastwood's October 2003 episode of Biography. Lack of mention of Eastwood's daughter by Roxanne Tunis and his two children by Jacelyn Reeves was noted in a review by The Dallas Morning News.[11]
The October 2012 issue of Esquire[12] says Eastwood "is father to seven children by five different women."
In French documentary L'album secret de Clint Eastwood (2012), biographer Patrick McGilligan says on camera, "We don't know how many children Clint has had with how many women" and proceeds to list seven of Eastwood's offspring before adding, "I heard of other possibilities. One was while he was still in high school."[13]
An October 2013 CNN news report[14] succinctly states "He's had eight children total by six women."
Although a story posted on People's website in September 2013 says Eastwood has eight children,[15] the magazine gave a count of seven in its April 20, 2015 issue.[16] A June 2016 Los Angeles Times article counts eight children.[17]
