Tarita Cheyenne Brando (February 20, 1970 – April 16, 1995) was the daughter of Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipia, a Tahitian whom he met while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962.
Born in 1970, Cheyenne was raised by her mother Tarita on the island of Tahiti, south of Papeete. Her parents divorced in 1972. She began suffering from bouts of mental illness from the age of 16, when she also started smoking, drinking to excess, and us...
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Tarita Cheyenne Brando (February 20, 1970 – April 16, 1995) was the daughter of Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipia, a Tahitian whom he met while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962.
Born in 1970, Cheyenne was raised by her mother Tarita on the island of Tahiti, south of Papeete. Her parents divorced in 1972. She began suffering from bouts of mental illness from the age of 16, when she also started smoking, drinking to excess, and using drugs.
In 1989, Cheyenne was injured in a car accident when she crashed her boyfriend's jeep after her father refused to allow her to visit him while he was filming The Freshman in Toronto, Canada. The facial injuries she sustained brought an end to her modeling career, which led to the further deterioration of her mental state.
In 1990, Cheyenne's boyfriend and father of her unborn child, Dag Drollet, was shot dead by Cheyenne's elder half-brother Christian Brando at their father's Mulholland Drive property in Los Angeles. This occurred...
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