The father of the man shot to death in Marlon Brando's home said he warned his son that he could die because of his relationship with the film star's daughter, it was reported Saturday.
Jacques Drollet told the Los Angeles Times that his son, Dag, had been trying to end his love affair with a "spoiled, unstable" Cheyenne Brando and trying to distance himself from her "unhappy" family when he was shot and killed in the Brando compound in May.The elder Drollet also said Marlon Brando, as an "adopted Polynesian," failed to protect Dag Drollet according to Polynesian rules of hospitality and described the Brando home as "a bunker with many weapons."
Christian Brando, one of the star's nine children, was ordered this week to stand trial for Drollet's death.
Christian Brando, 32, has told police that Cheyenne, his half-sister, had told him Drollet was abusing her and that he accidentally shot Drollet in a struggle.
Dag Drollet's father and his mother and stepfather, Lissette and Albert Lecaill, attended Brando's preliminary hearing in Los Angeles and spoke to the Times before their planned return to Tahiti late Friday.
The killing has shocked placid Tahiti, where the Drollets, the Lecaills and Brandos are prominent. The actor owns the atoll of Tetiaroa, and Jacques Drollet is a retired high-ranking official.
Neither Jacques Drollet nor the Lecaills expressed a desire to talk to Brando. Albert Lecaill said the actor called hours after the shooting to say it was an accident but has refused to see them since they have been in Los Angeles.
Drollet said that before his 26-year-old son left Tahiti to accompany pregnant Cheyenne Brando to Los Angeles, he told him, "Dag, stop this life with Cheyenne because she's not balanced . . . you will have great difficulties - perhaps suicide, perhaps she can kill you, or you can die, both of you, because of her."
Drollet said the couple was already living apart, but it was not soon enough.