Cheyenne Brando, the troubled daughter of actor Marlon Brando, committed suicide after five years of depression and anguish over her boyfriend's death, family associates said. She was 25.
Brando hanged herself Sunday at her mother's home in Punaauia, 6 miles west of Papeete, the capital on the island of Tahiti.Family associates, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Brando had been distraught since the killing of her boyfriend, Dag Drollet, in 1990 by her half-brother, Christian Brando. Doctors said she had tried to kill herself twice previously.
"I no longer want to live," Cheyenne Brando is quoted as saying in a recent biography of her father by Peter Manso. "I want to die because it isn't possible that (Drollet) is no longer here. Never will I find another like him."
Her body was moved to an aunt's home in the town of Faaa. Only close family members were able to view the body.
Cheyenne Brando's half-brother Miko Brando arrived in Papeete Tuesday, hours before local radio reports said a funeral was scheduled. Marlon Brando was not on the flight.
Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of Marlon Brando and Tarita Teriipaia, a Polynesian actress who married Brando after appearing with him in the 1962 film "Mutiny on the Bounty."
"She was bright, fragile, independent, scared, the true jewel of the family," Manso told the New York Daily News.
Marlon Brando's agent said the actor would have no comment.
Cheyenne Brando was charged in French Polynesia with complicity in the killing of Drollet, who was shot dead on May 16, 1990, at her father's Los Angeles home. The charges were later dropped.
Christian Brando pleaded guilty in Los Angeles County Superior Court to voluntary manslaughter and is serving a 10-year prison sentence. He claimed he shot Drollet in a struggle over a gun and said he was angry with Drollet for beating his sister, who was then pregnant.