Biography

Pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 16 May 1990 shooting death of Dag Drollet, the father of the then-unborn child of Brando's half-sister Cheyenne. He confronted Drollet with a gun after Cheyenne told him that Drollet had been beating her. Brando later claimed to the Los Angeles Times that Drollet grabbed for the gun as Brando turned to leave, and it went off. He served nearly 5 years of a 10-year prison sentence. Cheyenne committed suicide in 1995.

Was a name involved in the trial of actor Robert Blake, as he was the one-time boyfriend of Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, who was murdered outside Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, California. Bakley had a habit of seeking out entertainment types. Brando refused to testify at Blake's trial and denied any involvement in the killing.

He was in a coma for two weeks before he died.

Son of Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi.

Marlon and Kashfi met in 1955, and Kashfi became pregnant with Christian in 1957. They married in 1958. Marlon later claimed that he had married Kashfi only because of the pregnancy and that he had other romantic relationships during the marriage. Kashfi, an abuser of barbiturates and alcohol, divorced Brando a year after Christian's birth and later skewered him in her book "Brando for Breakfast". Kashfi and Marlon engaged in a protracted custody battle. Marlon eventually won custody of Christian, who was then 13 years old, after Kashfi took their son out of school to travel to Mexico.