Overview
- Eastman died in her sleep at her Santa Barbara home on Wednesday, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
- As Paramount’s head of casting she pushed to cast then-unknown Al Pacino as Michael Corleone and helped secure James Caan as Sonny for The Godfather, contributions now preserved in Academy Museum archives.
- She left Paramount in the early 1970s, moved into management and agency work, and rose to senior vice president at ICM where she became one of Hollywood’s first prominent female superagents.
- After retiring to Montana, Eastman founded a sanctuary for abused horses and dogs and worked with Robert Redford on the successful campaign for California’s Proposition 6 to ban horse slaughter.
- Page Six reports unnamed sources saying she discussed California’s End of Life Option Act in recent months but the family has not confirmed that detail; no official cause of death has been released and she is survived by her former husband Paul N. Lazarus III and her stepson Robert Lazarus.