Christian Brando, who had been hospitalized with double pneumonia, died Friday, PEOPLE has learned. He was 49.

Brando – son of the late actor Marlon Brando – was admitted to Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center Jan. 11, according to his ex-wife Deborah. Brando was in a coma and on a ventilator while hospitalized.

"His body was totally compromised," Deborah Brando told PEOPLE. "He'd lived hard ... This is just so sad."

Christian Brando pleaded guilty in 1990 to manslaughter for killing his sister's boyfriend and spent six years in prison.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174023,00.html

Oh wow, this is sad to hear. The whole family suffered tragedies of some sort. 49 years old is too young to die. Pneumonia???? That is scary, in this day and age.

:rip: Christian. I hope he is at peace with his father and sister.

Wow, that's wild. Brandon had terrible luck when it came to his children. Kids by three different women, working all the time, and this is the result. It's sad, poor guy was only 49.

this is the second of Brando's kids to die young, didn't his daughter commit suicide in the 90's?

this is the second of Brando's kids to die young, didn't his daughter commit suicide in the 90's?
Yes, Cheyenne, the girlfriend of the man who Christian killed. She was pregnant when he was killed, I believe. Not too sure about that.

This is very sad. R.I.P. :(

Cheyenne was a troubled girl. Here is an excerpt on her:

Tarita Cheyenne Brando was 11 years younger than her half-brother Christian and lived a sheltered, protected life. She was alternatively described as being “a wounded bird” and an extroverted egotist.

“Nobody dared tell her anything because she was Cheyenne Brando,” said former classmate Nathalie Degage. Cheyenne used to boast, “I am the most beautiful girl in Polynesia, the most intelligent and also the richest because of my father.”

She was beautiful, she was rich and friends also said she was quite intelligent. She could talk about art, natural science and dance with equal aplomb. Friends remember her as an energetic dynamo who loved horseback riding and dancing.

But no amount of Hollywood power or wealth could protect Cheyenne from her family history of alcoholism and mental illness. While most of Brando’s 10 other children have managed to escape the family demons, Cheyenne did not. Bouts with alcoholism and drug addiction plagued her teen years, and she became even more dependent on drugs after a serious automobile accident scarred her face and ended a promising modeling career.

She blamed her father for the accident, and in part he was at fault, but certainly not to the level she believed. Marlon was in Toronto in 1989 filming The Freshman with Matthew Broderick when Cheyenne phoned from Tahiti asking for permission to visit him. When Brando refused, Cheyenne, apoplectic with rage, jumped into her boyfriend's jeep and sped off the family’s Polynesian compound. Traveling at speeds near 100 mph, the Jeep failed to negotiate a turn and crashed. The accident left her disfigured: her jaw was broken, part of an ear was torn away and she was scarred on her cheek. Plastic surgery managed to restore much of her good looks, but not her mental health, and as she aged her fragile mental state deteriorated even further.

It was while she was recovering from her reconstructive surgery that Cheyenne became pregnant by her longtime boyfriend, Dag Drollet, the son of a prominent Tahitian family. Drollet stood by Cheyenne during her fights with depression, schizophrenia and chemical abuse. They had lived together for more than a year before Cheyenne’s accident, but friends said Dag was losing patience with Cheyenne’s inability or unwillingness to give up the drugs. His relatives warned him to leave the “unhappy Brando family.”

"Dag, stop this life with Cheyenne because she's not balanced,” his father recalls telling his son in a prescient conversation shortly before Dag was killed. “You will have great difficulties -- perhaps suicide, perhaps she can kill you, or you can die, both of you, because of her."

Tragically, Drollet failed to heed his father's advice and paid with his life.


You can continue to read more abt her and the tragedy here:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/christian_brando/3.html

That's a sad story all around, with not a happy ending anywhere. I wonder who is raising Cheyenne and Dag's child, who actually would be about 18 now.

I heard he was in a coma but I didn't know he passed away. What a sad story :( RIP

What a terrible two week for deaths! :(

That's a sad story all around, with not a happy ending anywhere. I wonder who is raising Cheyenne and Dag's child, who actually would be about 18 now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Brando

After arriving in Tahiti, Cheyenne gave birth to a son named Tuki Brando and tried to take her life by overdosing on sleeping pills. Shortly thereafter, she was formally diagnosed with schizophrenia, became isolated from her former friends, and lost custody of her son. In 1995 at the age of 25, Cheyenne committed suicide at her mother's house by hanging herself. Neither her father nor her brother Christian were able to attend her funeral in Tahiti. Her son Tuki fell into the custody of Cheyenne's mother, who raised him in Tahiti.

Starting around 2005, Tuki began to get attention from fashion media for modeling. He was on the February 2007 cover of L’Uomo Vogue and was named the face of the 2007 Versace Fall men’s campaign. Despite his time spent away from home, he says he still lives in Tahiti most of the year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Brando

After arriving in Tahiti, Cheyenne gave birth to a son named Tuki Brando and tried to take her life by overdosing on sleeping pills. Shortly thereafter, she was formally diagnosed with schizophrenia, became isolated from her former friends, and lost custody of her son. In 1995 at the age of 25, Cheyenne committed suicide at her mother's house by hanging herself. Neither her father nor her brother Christian were able to attend her funeral in Tahiti. Her son Tuki fell into the custody of Cheyenne's mother, who raised him in Tahiti.

Starting around 2005, Tuki began to get attention from fashion media for modeling. He was on the February 2007 cover of L’Uomo Vogue and was named the face of the 2007 Versace Fall men’s campaign. Despite his time spent away from home, he says he still lives in Tahiti most of the year.
OMG check this out, scroll down all the way to the bottom...DAMN!!! Talk abt male model looks:
TUKI BRANDO
http://www.ibabuzz.com/fashion/category/tuki-brando/

OMG check this out, scroll down all the way to the bottom...DAMN!!! Talk abt male model looks:
TUKI BRANDO
http://www.ibabuzz.com/fashion/category/tuki-brando/
Wow! :eek: That face and body looks like God chiseled them himself. Those smoldering eyes, OMG! I'm so glad that he's doing well. Imagine how he feels when he thinks about his parents. His uncle, who just died, killed his father, and his mother hung herself. I'm glad he ended up with his grandmother. It certainly appears that she did a fine job raising him. The poor guy had a terrible start in life. I'd like to take Tuki in my arms, and....comfort him. :lol:

Thanks for the link, Kelly. :wave:

Tuki: I coulda been a contender....

He is cute! but if he'd get rid of that light hair and go back to his sexy dark hair... he'd be smokin'!

Wow! :eek: That face and body looks like God chiseled them himself. Those smoldering eyes, OMG! I'm so glad that he's doing well. Imagine how he feels when he thinks about his parents. His uncle, who just died, killed his father, and his mother hung herself. I'm glad he ended up with his grandmother. It certainly appears that she did a fine job raising him. The poor guy had a terrible start in life. I'd like to take Tuki in my arms, and....comfort him. :lol:

Thanks for the link, Kelly. :wave:
Um, it was me who provided the link. ;) But! being called Kelly is no big deal, that is a compliment!

Hmmmmm, Janice I see you like Tukie huh? Save some for me! :lol:

Yes, doesn't he look like he was chiseled? My God, those features are perfect. You know as if God took the best parts and features from each of Tuki's family members and put that face together. Amazing. I am sure there is some re-touching of the photos, but still, the eyes are smokin' hot!:eek: :cool: ;)

Gee how sad! R.I.P :(

Um, it was me who provided the link. ;)
I knew that. Kelly quoted me and gave me a link, when I asked a question. You quoted Kelly and gave her a link, which I discussed with you. I just wanted to thank Kelly for helping me out. If that makes any sense, lol. :)

I knew that. Kelly quoted me and gave me a link, when I asked a question. You quoted Kelly and gave her a link, which I discussed with you. I just wanted to thank Kelly for helping me out. If that makes any sense, lol. :)
Okey dokies. I'm telling you, it's like I have been smoking something, the way my brain is behaving. :crazy: :lol: