Brando’s Daughter Kills Herself

Cheyenne Brando, the daughter of actor Marlon Brando, committed suicide at her home in Tahiti after five years of depression, family associates said Monday.

Brando, 25, had been distraught since the killing of her boyfriend, Dag Drollet, in 1990 by her halfbrother, Christian Brando, and had tried to kill herself at least twice previously, according to her doctors.

Family associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she hanged herself Sunday at her mother’s home in Punaauia, 6 miles west of Papeete, the French Polynesian capital on the island of Tahiti.

Brando’s body was moved to her aunt’s home in the town of Faaa, where she was to be buried on Monday or Tuesday, sources close to the family said on condition of anonymity.

Brando, who had a 5-year-old son by Drollet, was the daughter of Marlon Brando and Tarita Teriipaia, a Polynesian who acted with Brando in the 1962 film “Mutiny on the Bounty.”

Christian Brando is serving a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in the death of Drollet.