Cheyenne Brando

Cheyenne Brando Net Worth

Cheyenne Brando was born in 1970 to Marlon Brando and his third wife Tarita Teriipaia. She was raised in Tahiti and had a modeling career, but was seriously injured in a car accident in 1989. In 1987, she began dating Dag Drollet and became pregnant with their child in 1989. In 1990, her half-brother Christian shot and killed Drollet, and Cheyenne refused to testify in his trial. She gave birth to their son Tuki and attempted suicide twice, and was declared mentally disabled and unable to testify. Christian pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and served five years in prison. Cheyenne's mental health steadily declined and she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, losing custody of her son to her mother. In 1995, she committed suicide at her mother's house in Tahiti.

Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day February 20, 1970
Age 50 YEARS OLD
Died On 16 April 1995(1995-04-16) (aged 25)\nPunaauia, Tahiti
Birth Sign Pisces
Cause of death Suicide by hanging
Resting place Roman Catholic Urania Cemetery
Occupation Model
Partner(s) "Dag" Drollet
Children Tuki Brando
Parent(s) Marlon Brando Tarita Teriipaia
Relatives Christian Brando (paternal half-brother)

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1970

Born in 1970, Brando was raised by her mother Tarita on the island of Tahiti, south of Papeete. Her parents divorced in 1972.

1976

While growing up, Marlon Brando did not allow Cheyenne and her brother Tehotu to visit him in the United States. In 1976 he stated, "I don't think I will let them [Cheyenne and Tehotu] go to the States. As Tahitians, they are too trusting. They would be destroyed in the pace of life in the States." As a child, Cheyenne reportedly adored her father and bragged about him. As she entered her teenage years, her feelings towards her father changed. In a 1990 interview she stated, "I have come to despise my father for the way he ignored me when I was a child. He came to the island maybe once a year but really didn't seem to care whether he saw me or not. He wanted us but he didn't want us."

1987

In May 1987, Cheyenne began dating 23-year-old Dag Drollet. His father, Jacques Drollet, was a member of Tahiti's parliament. The pair were introduced through a get together, as the Brandos and Drollets had been longtime friends. In 1989, Cheyenne became pregnant with their child. At Marlon Brando's request, the couple moved to the United States and into Marlon's Mulholland Drive home to await the birth of their child.

1989

In 1989, Cheyenne was seriously injured in a car accident when she crashed a Jeep she was driving after her father refused to allow her to visit him while he was filming The Freshman in Toronto. She sustained a broken jaw, a laceration under her eye, and a torn ear. Marlon Brando flew Cheyenne to Los Angeles to undergo extensive reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. The accident effectively ended her modeling career. After the accident, she began experiencing bouts of depression and attempted suicide.

1990

Christian Brando was immediately arrested and charged with first-degree murder two days later. The prosecutors of the case attempted to subpoena Cheyenne to testify at Christian's trial as they felt her account of the night's event was crucial in proving the shooting was premeditated. However, she refused to testify and fled to Tahiti. On 26 June 1990, she gave birth to a son she named Tuki Brando. Soon after Tuki's birth, Cheyenne attempted suicide twice and was hospitalized for drug detoxification in a psychiatric hospital. On 22 December 1990, Cheyenne was declared "mentally disabled" by a French judge and was deemed unable to testify in her brother's trial.

1995

On 16 April 1995, Cheyenne hanged herself at her mother's house in Punaauia, Tahiti. Neither her father nor her half-brother Christian were able to attend her funeral in Tahiti. She was buried in the Roman Catholic Uranie Cemetery in Papeete in the family crypt of Dag Drollet's family.

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