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Christian Brando (b. 11 May 1958 ), is the eldest of the offspring of the late actor Marlon Brando . He was convicted of the Voluntary Manslaughter of his half-sister Cheyenne 's boyfriend on 16 May 1990 at Marlon Brando 's residence on Mulholland Drive . He was released from Prison in 1996 . EARLY LIFE Brando was born in 1958 the result of a 3 year affair between the Hollywood legend Marlon Brando and actress Anna Kashfi. Although claiming to be Indian, she was in fact born in Wales of Irish descent, nee Joan O'Callaghan. Having met in 1955, they married in 1958, Brando later claiming he had only married Kashfi because of the pregnancy, and continued his relationships away from home. Kashfi had had a brief film career in movies such as ''The Mountain'' with Spencer Tracy , ''Battle Hymn'' with Rock Hudson , and ''Cowboy'' starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon . With Brando's blatant philandering, Kashfi turned to barbiturates and alcohol, the couple divorcing a year after Christian's birth in May 1959, and he was passed between the two, their relationship becoming more and more hostile and abusive. The author Nellie Bly claimed that “''When the Brandos quarreled, Anna displayed a ‘frightening’ rage,''” and that “''Anna left baby Christian alone in her car parked on Wilshire Boulevard while she confronted Brando in his office, ‘beating at him with her fists, in a frenzy of rage.''” There was a protracted custody battle between Kashfi and Brando until he eventually won custody of Christian aged 13 after an incident when Christian was taken out of school to Mexico by Kashfi without Brando's consent. Christian had little good contact with his father, being raised by nannies and servants, moving between Hollywood and the private island near Tahiti. A reluctant witness to his father’s sexual exploits and bizarre behaviour, Christian complained that: “''The family kept changing shape, I'd sit down at the breakfast table and say, ‘Who are you?’''” MANSLAUGHTER As the eldest child of the family with Brando often away, Christian felt strongly protective to his younger siblings, especially his younger sister Cheyenne. This was to result in tragedy in 1990 when Christian shot dead Dag Drollet, the Tahitian father of Cheyenne's unborn child in Mulholland Drive , Los Angeles . Christian and Cheyenne had returned from dinner at the Musso & Frank Grill, where Cheyenne had alleged that Dag was abusive, which was in fact untrue. Cheyenne suffered from drug addiction and was later diagnosed with Schizophrenia . She committed suicide in Tahiti in 1995. BONNIE LEE BAKLEY Brando was mentioned in the 2001 Bonnie Lee Bakley murder investigation when Robert Blake claimed that Christian Brando had killed his 44-year-old wife. Christian appeared as a witness in actor Robert Blake’s civil trial, but refused to testify, invoking his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Right against self-incrimination. Blake was however charged with the murder and acquitted. MARRIAGE AND SPOUSAL ABUSE Brando married artist Deborah Presley on October 16 , 2004 in Las Vegas . Presley, two years Brando's senior, claims to be an illegitimate daughter of Elvis Presley . On January 10 , 2005 , Christian Brando was charged with two counts of spousal abuse in relation to battery of his wife. Pleading guilty, he was sentenced to three years' Probation and two months drug and alcohol treatment, and was ordered to complete a Spousal Abuse prevention program. The couple were divorced in June 2005. In December 2005, Deborah Brando launched a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking financial damages for multiple counts of violence and threats of violence and murder against her and her 13-year-old daughter. Deborah Brando claimed that Christian Brando repeatedly forced her into sex by threatening to smother her with a pillow or to cut her daughter "into a million pieces." She also claimed that her husband bragged about killing his half-sister Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend Dag Drollet in 1990, saying that he "would do it all over again" if he had the chance, and "that he went up to the back of {Link without Title} as he was watching television and eating a sandwich, and went 'pop' with a handgun." It was also claimed that while Brando was living in his late father's house shortly after his death in July 2004, he threatened to murder his brother Miko and sister Rebecca Brando, and the executors of his father's estate, including movie mogul Mike Medavoy and his wife, Irena, also threatening to rape Deborah Brando in front of Medavoy before killing them. Brando also allegedly threatened to burn Deborah Brando's dog with a cigarette lighter and forced hot Chinese Noodles down the throat of Deborah Brando on New Year's Eve of 2004. EXTERNAL LINKS
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