[7] She has one younger brother, Dominic, who was formerly married to Groucho Marx's granddaughter Jade Berti.

[12] She has since made guest appearances on Action News and at KSBW's Share Your Holiday events.

[18][19] Ruiz Eastwood was featured in the San Francisco State University's 2009 "Alumni Hot Shots" list.

[13] She discovered the South African a cappella band Overtone during the filming of her husband's movie Invictus.

[20] Eastwood made brief appearances as a reporter in two of her husband's films, True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002).

Eastwood joined The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts Board of Trustees and is a past chair.

[22] As Clint Eastwood recalled in 2007, [S]he was doing an interview with me…[and] we got along really well and I guess we flirted a little bit because she took the film back to KSBW and one of her associates said, 'You're going to marry him.'

Then we were attending a function out at Spanish Bay and [one of the hosts] said, 'Do you mind sitting with Dina Ruiz?'

[24] In April 2013, Dina Eastwood entered rehab in Arizona, with People magazine writing that "the reported cause was stress".