Everything You Need To Know About Cheyenne Brando Marlon Brandos Daughter

Publish date: 2024-05-19

Cheyenne Brando was the best French modelknown as the daughter of famous artists – Marlon Brando, American actor and actress, Tarita Teriipaia, Brando’s third wife. Sadly, Cheyenne passed away at a relatively early age due to a difficult life that plunged her into drug addiction. She faced many hardships that led her to commit suicide in her twenties. Below, we look at his rather tragic story.

Cheyenne Brando Biography

Tarita Cheyenne Brando was born on February 20, 1970. Her acting parents reportedly met on the set of the 1962 film, Mutiny on the Bounty. Cheyenne and her brother, Teihotu, spent their childhood on the island of Tahiti, south of Papeete, raised by their mother after their parents divorced in 1972.

Cheyenne Brando loved her father despite the family challenges. She would openly brag about him from time to time. Growing up, she grew to despise him, particularly because of how he had ignored them growing up. He didn’t seem to care to be present in their lives, but he visited them two or three times a year. Cheyenne then dropped out of high school and plunged into drug addiction. She took drugs like marijuana, LSD, PCP, including tranquilizers.

Everything you need to know about Marlon Brando’s daughter

Career

Possessing her good looks which she inherited from her parents, she started her modeling career after dropping out of high school. Apart from having a difficult childhood, her problem started in 1989 when she was involved in a car accident that nearly took her life. She broke her jaw and suffered a torn ear and a laceration under her eye. Her father would then fly her to Los Angeles where she underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the broken parts of her body. This accident spelled the end of her modeling career and plunged her into depression and attempted suicide.

His relationship with Dag Drollet

Cheyenne Brando a rencontré Dag Drollet vers mai 1987;elle avait 17 ans à cette époque. Ils ont été présentés lors d’une réunion et se sont mis à la tâche car leurs familles étaient des amis de longue date. Son père n’a jamais soutenu sa relation avec Drollet, car il pensait qu’elle alimentait sa dépendance à la drogue. Cheyenne a découvert qu’elle était enceinte en 1989 et son père l’a invitée, ainsi que Drollet, à résider dans son domicile de Mulholland Drive pour attendre l’arrivée de leur bébé.

Unfortunately, Drollet was shot and killed by Cheyenne’s half-brother, Christian Brando, named after their father. Christian claimed the shooting was an accident. Christian repeated that his sister (Cheyenne) confided in him that she was being physically abused by Drollet. As a result, he went to their house to confront him and the gun accidentally went off as Drollet struggled to disarm him.

As a result, Christian Brando was arrested and charged with the first degree murder of Drollet. Cheyenne, on the other hand, fled to Tahiti and refused to testify at trial. Christian then submitted a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment but only served 5 years with three years probation. After his release, he later stated in an interview that he doubted Cheyenne’s claim that Drollet abused his unstable mental state.

Cheyenne Brando gave birth to her baby boy on June 26, 1990. She names him Tuki Brandon and later loses custody of her son to his mother due to his mental instability. Tuki Brando would follow in her mother’s footsteps and is now a renowned model. He was also admitted to medical school.

Mental Health

Although Cheyenne Brando had a stable and happy childhood, her drug addiction and addiction might have contributed to her mental issues. She started using drugs in high school and attempted suicide about three times. After Drollet’s death and her brother’s trial, for which she blamed herself, Cheyenne’s mental health gradually deteriorated.

She was monitored and checked repeatedly in drug rehabilitation centers and psychiatric hospitals without much improvement. She even accused her father of molesting her as a child and accused him of being the cause of Drollet’s death. Cheyenne Brando was then diagnosed with schizophrenia and gradually isolated herself from her friends.

How she died?

After various unsuccessful attempts to complete it, Cheyenne Brando finally succeeded on April 16, 1995. She committed suicide at her mother’s home in Punaauia and died at the age of 25. The troubled woman was laid to rest in the Drollet family crypt at Urania Catholic Cemetery, Papeete. Neither her father, Marlon Brando, nor her half-brother, Christian Brando, were able to attend her funeral.

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