Word: drollet
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...daughter Tarita Zumi Cheyenne hanged herself at the Brando estate in Punaauia, Tahiti. Cheyenne, as she was known, had tried to commit suicide three times before. She had lost hope again after a recent court decision denying her custody of her four-year-old son Tuki-whose father, Dag Drollet, was shot and killed at her father's Hollywood home in May 1990 by her half-brother Christian...
While she was recovering, Cheyenne became pregnant by Drollet, the scion of a prominent Tahitian family. Eight months into the pregnancy, she told Christian that Drollet was beating her. Christian confronted her boyfriend with a .45-cal. handgun at Brando's California estate, and in the ensuing struggle, Drollet was killed. "The messenger of misery has come to my house," Brando told attorney William Kunstler that night. Christian, who was represented by both Kunstler and Robert Shapiro, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter, but with time off for good behavior, he may be out of prison as early...
...Cheyenne's mother. It was while her mother was at Easter services that she took her life. Brando decided against flying to Tahiti, but, ever the domineering parent, he tried to have Cheyenne buried on his private atoll of Tetiaroa. Instead, she was laid to rest in the Drollet family crypt in Faa'a. CHEYENNE WITH DAG FOR ETERNITY, read the headline in La Depeche de Tahiti...
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