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...only life imitated art ... On Easter Sunday Brando's deeply troubled 25-year-old 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...
...Cheyenne's mother, Tarita Teriipaia, a Tahitian waitress-turned-actress, while filming Mutiny On the Bounty in 1961. (Besides Cheyenne, they also had an older son Teihotu.) When Cheyenne was 20, she had a heated telephone argument with her father when he wouldn't let her fly from Tahiti to Canada, where he was filming The Freshman, and she responded by driving her Jeep into a ditch at high speed. Brando then had her flown to a Los Angeles hospital, where he kept a bedside vigil after her extensive surgery...
Cheyenne once claimed she was "the most beautiful, most intelligent and richest girl in Tahiti," and there are those who agreed with her. But she was also probably the most anguished. In the past few months, the onetime model gained so much weight that she began to resemble her corpulent father. Her behavior was so erratic that when she recently invited three friends out for coffee in nearby Papeete, she paid for the coffee by writing separate checks...
Cheyenne was devastated when a judge ruled three weeks ago that Tuki would have to remain in the custody of 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...
...should I pick first, defer, bag all together? I mean, the Rhodes is the super coolest, Yale is the best law school in the universe, and I'd get zillions of frequent flyer miles traveling all over the place consulting for McKinsey. (I could get a free ticket to Tahiti every winter!) The decision is driving me nuts. I can't eat or sleep, and I haven't had any time for my roommates, who are expecting lives of retail and/or artistic squalor...