Word: teriipaia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brando met 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...
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