Word: tetiaroa
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...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...
...whose father had been doctor to a Polynesian king and had received the islands as a gift. The sale ended a ten-year search by the actor "for a place on this earth to hang my hat." He narrowed his choices to Mexico, Bali, Bangkok and finally decided on Tetiaroa, which he had first seen in 1961 while filming Mutiny on the Bounty...
...bedroom is filled with scientific journals on aqua-farming, solar energy and the like. Brando's experiments in these areas are momentarily dormant because of a grandiose commercial enterprise that flopped, at a cost to him of $500,000. Two years ago Actor Brando became an innkeeper on Tetiaroa. On his tight little island, he constructed 21 thatch-roofed huts, including three bars and a dining room, and hired a staff of about...
Brando keeps his private life on Tahiti very secluded. He has two children by Tarita, who was a 19-year-old beauty in Mutiny on the Bounty. They live on Tahiti. "I see them on weekends," says their father. "They fly to Tetiaroa or I go to them. I don't think I will let them go to the States. As Tahitians, they are too trusting. They would be destroyed in the pace of life in the States...
...returned from the bird sanctuary with the last rays of sunlight. The lagoon was a gentle green color set against the dramatic black silhouette of Tetiaroa. Brando pointed up to the first evening star visible in the dimming sky. A strange, almost mystical feeling pervaded, as if one could slip overboard and sink beneath the soft sea to become part of all that beauty. "Don't worry, you'd swim," Marlon laughed when I told him later about my strange impulse. "But I know exactly what you mean. It's happened to me many times...