Personal Life
Clapton's mother was a nurse who died when he was ten, his father was a doctor who died in 2004. Clapton has pterygiums and his eye surgeon recommended he wear dark glasses. Clapton met Susie (aged 41 in May 1996), a fashion model, in the mid-1980s, they married and have twin daughters, Saskia and Montana (aged 18 in January 2009). As from May 2010 he is writing an autobiography, expected for release later in the year.
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