1. Christian Devi Brando was an American actor who was one of the eleven children actor Marlon Brando, and the only one Brando had with his first wife, former actress Anna Kashfi.
37 Facts About Christian Brando
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On May 16,1990, Brando fatally shot Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne, at Brando's father's residence on Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.
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Christian Brando pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to prison in 1991.
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In 2005, Christian Brando pleaded no contest to spousal abuse of his then-wife Deborah and was sentenced to probation.
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Christian Brando died of pneumonia on January 26,2008, aged 49.
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Christian Brando was named after his father's longtime friend French film director Christian Marquand who later directed Marlon in the 1968 film Candy.
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Christian was born in Los Angeles on May 11,1958, the product of an affair between Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi, an actress born to a British family in colonial India.
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Christian Brando's parents became increasingly hostile and abusive toward each other, and engaged in a protracted custody battle.
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Marlon eventually won custody of Christian Brando, who was then 13 years old.
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Marlon was a distant father and spent little time with young Christian Brando, who was raised by nannies and servants.
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Christian Brando moved between Hollywood and Tetiaroa, his father's private island near Tahiti.
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In 1972, while his father was abroad in France filming Last Tango in Paris, Christian Brando was kidnapped by his mother, who took him from school, then brought him to a gang of hippie friends in Baja California, Mexico.
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Christian Brando was found living in a tent and ill with bronchial pneumonia.
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Christian Brando's mother was arrested near the Mexican border after being pulled over for drunk driving and disorderly behavior.
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Christian Brando was an occasional actor but was not interested in being in the spotlight.
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Christian Brando ran away from home to Washington state to move in with family friends, which his father ultimately approved and supported.
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Christian Brando's father visited him there and later purchased a remote cabin where Christian practised artistic welding at age 22, dividing his time between the cabin and his father's Hollywood Hills residence.
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Christian Brando appeared in four other films and four made-for-TV productions, sometimes using the alias "Gary Brown", between 1980 and 1990.
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Christian Brando played a killer in the Sacra Corona Unita in the film La Posta in gioco, filmed in Southern Italy in 1987.
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On May 16,1990, Christian Brando fatally shot Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne, in the living room of Christian Brando's father's house in Beverly Hills, California.
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Marlon Brando had known the Drollet family for years; however, Christian Brando met Dag Drollet for the first time several hours before the shooting.
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Later, around 11 pm that night, Christian Brando, who admitted to being drunk at the time, confronted Drollet at the Christian Brando residence and shot him.
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Christian Brando claimed that he did not intend to kill Drollet.
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Christian Brando claimed that he and Drollet were fighting over the gun when it accidentally went off.
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Christian Brando was initially charged with murder; however, prosecutors were unable to proceed with a murder charge because of the absence of Cheyenne, who was a crucial witness to their case.
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Marlon Christian Brando had Cheyenne admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Tahiti.
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Robert Blake and his defense attorneys claimed that Christian Brando was involved in the 2001 murder of Blake's 44-year-old wife Bonny Lee Bakley.
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Dianne Mattson testified in court that Christian Brando became enraged, and at one point said that "somebody should put a bullet in that bitch's head".
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Christian Brando was called as a witness in Blake's civil trial but refused to testify, invoking his Fifth Amendment constitutional rights.
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On October 16,2004, in Las Vegas, after a five-year-long relationship, Christian Brando wed Deborah Presley, an actress who had claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of Elvis Presley.
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Christian Brando pleaded no contest to charges of spousal abuse involving Deborah in January 2005.
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Christian Brando was placed on probation and ordered to attend drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
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Christian Brando counterclaimed, accusing Deborah of "a savage beating" during the same incident.
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Christian Brando claimed that she broke into his home and beat him because he wanted to annul their marriage only 10 weeks after exchanging vows.
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Christian Brando died of pneumonia on January 26,2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center at age 49.
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Christian Brando had been admitted into Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center on January 11,2008.
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Christian Brando was buried on February 17,2008, at the Kalama Oddfellows Cemetery in Kalama, Washington.