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Christian Brando (11 May 1958) is the eldest of the offspring of the late actor Marlon Brando. He was convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend on 16 May 1990 at Marlon Brando's residence on Mulholland Drive. He was released from prison in 1996. Image File history File links Christian_Brando. ...
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Anna Kashfi, born (30 September 1934-) is a film actress, who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s and who is best known for having been married to Marlon Brando. ...
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Tarita Cheyenne Brando (February 23, 1970 – April 16, 1995) was the daughter of the multi-Oscar-winning American actor Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipia, a Tahitian whom he met while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962. ...
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Early life
Brando was born in 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the result of a three-year-long affair between the Hollywood legend Marlon Brando and actress Anna Kashfi. Although claiming to be Indian, Kashfi was in fact born in Wales of Irish descent; she had been born Joan O'Callaghan. Having met in 1955, Kashfi and Brando married in 1958, Brando later claiming he had only married Kashfi because of the pregnancy, and continuing other relationships away from home. Kashfi had a brief film career in movies such as The Mountain with Spencer Tracy, Battle Hymn with Rock Hudson, and Cowboy starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon. Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government - Type Mayor-Council - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo - Governing body City Council Area - City 498. ...
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Anna Kashfi, born (30 September 1934-) is a film actress, who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s and who is best known for having been married to Marlon Brando. ...
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Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. ...
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Glenn Ford in 1979 Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Glenn Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-American actor from Hollywoods Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. ...
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With Brando's blatant philandering, Kashfi turned to barbiturates and alcohol, the couple divorcing a year after Christian's birth in May 1959. Christian was passed between the two as their relationship became more and more hostile and abusive. The author Nellie Bly claimed that “When the Brandos quarreled, Anna displayed a ‘frightening’ rage,” and that “Anna left baby Christian alone in her car parked on Wilshire Boulevard while she confronted Brando in his office, ‘beating at him with her fists, in a frenzy of rage.” There was a protracted custody battle between Kashfi and Brando until he eventually won custody of Christian aged 13 after an incident when Christian was taken out of school to Mexico by Kashfi without Brando's consent. Barbiturates are drugs that act as central nervous system (CNS) depressants, and by virtue of this they produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to anesthesia. ...
Christian had little good contact with his father, being raised by nannies and servants, moving between Hollywood and the private island near Tahiti. A reluctant witness to his father’s sexual exploits and bizarre behavior, Christian complained that:
“The family kept changing shape, I'd sit down at the breakfast table and say, ‘Who are you’”
Manslaughter As the eldest child of the family with Brando often away, Christian felt strongly protective to his younger siblings, especially his younger sister Cheyenne. This was to result in tragedy in 1990 when Christian shot and killed Dag Drollet, the Tahitian father of Cheyenne's unborn child on Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles. Christian and Cheyenne had returned from dinner at the Musso & Frank Grill, where Cheyenne had alleged that Dag was abusive, which was in fact untrue. Cheyenne was a drug addict and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. She committed suicide in Tahiti in 1995. Map of Mulholland Drive (orange) and Mulholland Highway (brown) in Los Angeles County. ...
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Bonnie Lee Bakley Brando became involved in the 2001 Bonnie Lee Bakley murder investigation when Robert Blake claimed that Christian Brando had been involved in the murder of Blake's 44-year-old wife. A voluminous criminal pre-trial motion laid out the theory of his involvement. Blake was however charged with the murder and acquitted. According to trial analysts, Blake's acquittal was a result of his defense lawyer's (M. Gerald Schwartzbach} successful impeachment of the prosecution's "stuntmen" witnesses and suggestions that others could have been involved in the murder. Christian appeared as a witness in actor Robert Blake’s civil trial, but refused to testify, invoking his Fifth Amendment constitutional right against self-incrimination. Although Brando refused to testify, his objectionable behavior in court earned him a "contempt of court" charge and conviction. Bonnie Lee Bakley in an undated photo. ...
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Sworn testimony from both the Blake criminal pre-trial hearings and civil trial suggested that Christian Brando had the same motive to have Bonny Lee Bakley killed as Blake may have had, and Brando already had a previous conviction for manslaughter. Bonnie Lee Bakley was dating Robert Blake and Christian Brando at the same time. Letters to Robert Blake from Bakley outlined her true financial motives for the relationships with Blake and Brando. Bakley became pregnant and claimed to both Brando and Blake that they were the father. Bakley named Christian Brando as the father in the official birth certificate and named the baby Christian Shannon Brando. After a DNA test, Robert Blake was proven to be the father.
According to trial testimony, just days before her murder, Bakley sent a letter to Brando with pictures of the baby, still claiming Brando was the father. A witness, Dianne Mattson, testified that Brando became enraged and at one point stated "somebody should put a bullet in that bitch's head!". In a tape recorded conversation between Brando and Bakley, Brando stated, "You’re lucky. You know, I mean, not on my behalf, but you’re lucky someone ain’t out there to pull a bul-bullet in your head”. Bonnie Lee Bakley died with a bullet in her head.
LAPD detectives investigated Christian Brando but found he had an alibi. Brando was in the State of Washington the night of the Bakley murder. However, subsequent witnesses came forward that implicated associates of Christian Brando in the murder that resided in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. According to witnesses, one of those associates was the prosecution star witness, a stuntman named "Duffy Hambleton". Hambleton claimed that Blake tried to hire him as the gunman to kill Bakley, but Hambleton refused. Blake testified that he hired Hambleton for private security to protect him and Bakley from a stalker. Criminal pre-trial and civil trial testimony suggested that Duffy Hambleton was an associate of Christian Brando and he arranged the murder of Bakley to curry favor with Brando. Witnesses testified that LAPD detectives refused to investigate this information because it was contrary to the prosecution's theory of the murder and in fact, implicated Duffy Hambleton (the LAPD and prosecution's key witness) in the murder conspiracy.
Another civil trial witness, Brian Allan Fiebelkorn, testified that he alerted authorities to information that could confirm prosecution witness Duffy Hambleton was not being truthful in his assertions against Robert Blake. More importantly, Fiebelkorn (as well as other trial witnesses) asserted that Duffy Hambleton had an association with Christian Brando, but Fiebelkorn was rebuked by law enforcement. During testimony in the Bakley family vs. Robert Blake civil trial, evidence came to light that LAPD Detective Ron Y. Ito surreptitiously recorded one of the LAPD interviews of Brian Allan Fiebelkorn before the criminal trial, but never turned it over to the defense in discovery (a direct violation of court orders). According to trial witnesses, the tape was played in civil court and documented that LAPD detective Ron Y. Ito intimidated Fiebelkorn by inferring that he was involved in the murder. If it could be proven that Duffy Hambleton did have a connection to Christian Brando, the plaintiff's claim against Robert Blake would be in jeopardy. If this tape was turned over to the Blake defense team before the criminal trial against Blake, the murder investigation may have resulted in others being implicated for the murder.
The civil trial verdict found Robert Blake liable in the death of Bonnie Lee Bakley. Blake's successful criminal trial attorney, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, was so outraged at the civil trial verdict, the misconduct of the jury and by LAPD Dectective Ron Y. Ito's actions against Brian Allan Fiebelkorn, that he agreed to represent Blake once again for the appeal of the civil trial verdict. Although Blake was acquitted in the criminal trial, trial watchers surmised that Schwartzbach would be justified in his anger at the LAPD's suppression of the tape of Brian Allan Fiebelkorn's interview. If that taped interview of Fiebelkorn was turned over in discovery before the criminal trial, it could have helped Schwartzbach present the alternate theory implicating others in Bakley's murder that the Judge refused to allow into the trial. The Associated Press reported on January 19, 2007 that a formal complaint was filed against the LAPD and detective Ron Ito by M. Gerald Schwartzbach and Brian Allan Fiebelkorn.
The appeal's opening brief was filed on February 28, 2007.
Marriage and spousal abuse Brando married artist Deborah Presley on October 16, 2004 in Las Vegas. Presley, two years Brando's senior, claims to be an illegitimate daughter of Elvis Presley. October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ...
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Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ...
On January 10, 2005, Christian Brando was charged with two counts of spousal abuse in relation to battery of his wife. Pleading guilty, he was sentenced to three years' probation and two months drug and alcohol treatment, and was ordered to complete a spousal abuse prevention program. The couple were divorced in June 2005. January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In December 2005, Deborah Brando launched a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking financial damages for multiple counts of violence and threats of violence and murder against her and her 13-year-old daughter. Deborah Brando claimed that Christian Brando repeatedly forced her into sex by threatening to smother her with a pillow or to cut her daughter "into a million pieces." Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,290. ...
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She also claimed that her husband bragged about killing his half-sister Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend Dag Drollet in 1990, saying that he "would do it all over again" if he had the chance, and "that he went up to the back of [Drollet] as he was watching television and eating a sandwich, and went 'pop' with a handgun."
It was also claimed that while Brando was living in his late father's house shortly after his death in July 2004, he threatened to murder his brother Miko and sister Rebecca Brando, and the executors of his father's estate, including movie mogul Mike Medavoy and his wife, Irena, also threatening to rape Deborah Brando in front of Medavoy before killing them. Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941, Shanghai ghetto, China) is an American film producer and executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures, former chairman of TriStar Pictures and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures. ...
Brando also allegedly threatened to burn Deborah Brando's dog with a cigarette lighter and forced hot Chinese noodles down the throat of Deborah Brando on New Year's Eve of 2004. Chinese cuisine includes many different types of noodles, called mià n (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; often transliterated as mien or mein ). Mià n (麵) refers to noodles made from wheat while fěn () or fun refers to noodles made from rice. ...
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