1. Tarita Cheyenne Brando was a French fashion model.
17 Facts About Cheyenne Brando
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Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of actor Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipaia, an actress from French Polynesia whom he met while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962.
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Cheyenne Brando was raised by her mother Tarita on the island of Tahiti, south of Papeete.
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Cheyenne Brando eventually dropped out of high school and began taking drugs including LSD, PCP, marijuana, and tranquilizers.
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In 1989, Cheyenne Brando was seriously injured in a car crash 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.
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Cheyenne Brando sustained a broken jaw, a laceration under her eye, and a torn ear.
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Cheyenne Brando's father, Jacques Drollet, was a member of the Assembly of French Polynesia.
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Cheyenne Brando stated that earlier in the evening, Cheyenne told him that Drollet was physically abusing her.
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Christian Cheyenne Brando was immediately arrested and charged with first-degree murder two days later.
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The prosecutors of the case attempted to subpoena Cheyenne Brando to testify at Christian's trial as they felt her account of the night's event was crucial in proving the shooting was premeditated.
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On 22 December 1990, Cheyenne Brando was declared "mentally disabled" by a French judge and was deemed unable to testify in her brother's trial.
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Cheyenne Brando served a total of five years and was placed on three years' probation.
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Cheyenne Brando repeatedly entered drug rehabilitation facilities and psychiatric hospitals.
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Cheyenne publicly accused her father of molesting her and accused him of being an accomplice in Drollet's death; Marlon Brando denied both accusations.
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Cheyenne Brando was later formally diagnosed with schizophrenia, became isolated from her former friends, and ultimately lost custody of her son, Tuki, to her mother, who raised him in Tahiti.
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On 16 April 1995, Cheyenne Brando took her own life at her mother's house in Puna'auia, Tahiti.
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Cheyenne Brando was buried in the Roman Catholic Uranie Cemetery in Papeete in the family crypt of Dag Drollet's family.