Superstar Clint Eastwood settles 10 million dollar libel lawsuit

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hollywood icon and movie director Clint Eastwood has settled a 10-million-dollar libel lawsuit he launched over a biography that accused him of beating his wife, lawyers said.

The actor and filmmaker in December 2002 sued the author of "Clint: The Life and Legend," Patrick McGilligan, as well as the biography's US publisher, St. Martin's Press, over allegations made in the tome.

But the suit has been settled out of court after McGilligan and his publisher agreed to remove a reference to Eastwood beating his wife, attorneys said.

Eastwood, star of films such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "A Fistful of Dollars," and "Unforgiven" had claimed that the book aimed to destroy his reputation.

Among the statements Eastwood objected...