Drollet had been staying with Cheyenne at Brando's house since they both flew into town from Tahiti about 10 days earlier. Drollet was "slapping around" his half-sister, Christian reportedly told detectives, admitting he shot the other man once in the head. On May 16, 1990, 32-year-old Christian Brando-Marlon's eldest son and only child with his first wife, actress Anna Kashfi- shot and killed 26-year-old Dag Drollet, the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne Brando, in the den of their father's home in the Hollywood Hills.Ĭhristian maintained he was only trying to defend Cheyenne, 20, who was pregnant at the time. It was a very obsessive relationship."Ĭhristian Brando Shoots His Sister's Boyfriend So having said that, I just got disappointed for the last time. If you keep letting them disappoint you and hurt you, then there's something wrong with this relationship, including yourself. "You let things happen, all right? People aren't just mean to you. "But let's put things in proper perspective," she continued.
"He kept disappointing me," Moreno said of Brando on the May 9 episode of Hoda Kotb's Making Space podcast, the man she called "the lust of my life" still fodder for conversation all these years later. The Puerto Rican star had recently finished shooting West Side Story and her Oscar win in April 1962 was still ahead of her. When he got home from the shoot, Moreno wrote, she was alone in his house one morning and swallowed some of his sleeping pills in her distress. Luckily Brando's assistant found her and she was rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped. He made his Broadway debut at 20 and won his first Oscar at 30, romanced countless women, including Marilyn Monroe, and over the course of five decades became a father to at least nine children.īrando's list of famous paramours also included Rita Moreno, who opened up in her 2013 memoir about getting pregnant toward the end of their eight-year, on-and-off relationship and almost dying from complications of an illegal abortion-after which Brando left town to film Mutiny on the Bounty and fell for his co-star Tarita Teriipaia, who became his third wife in 1962. The charismatic kid from Omaha, Neb., spent time in military school, where he became quite the prankster, and then made his way to New York to try his hand at acting. But the enigmatic actor's life also got off on an unstable foot, growing up with an alcoholic mother and emotionally remote father who split up when he was 11. His gravelly voice, quirky mannerisms and brooding intensity became fodder for both loving homage and, eventually, parody. Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, Javier Bardem and Ryan Goslingare a small sampling of the male stars who've worshiped at the altar of Brando the artist. He was French-Polynesian-island-owning wealthy and beyond-famous, of course, having made his mark during Hollywood's golden age as the epitome of the gorgeous, sensitive, vaguely dangerous leading man, decades before he played the titular patriarch in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and firmly cemented his status as a living legend.
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