
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 18, 1995                   TAG: 9504180144
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PAPEETE, FRENCH POLYNESIA                                LENGTH: Short

BRANDO'S DAUGHTER KILLS HERSELF

Cheyenne Brando, the daughter of actor Marlon Brando, committed suicide at her home in Tahiti after five years of depression, family associates said Monday.

Brando, 25, had been distraught since the killing of her boyfriend, Dag Drollet, in 1990 by her half-brother, Christian Brando, and had tried to kill herself at least twice previously, according to her doctors.

Family associates said she hanged herself Sunday at her mother's home in Punaauia on the island of Tahiti.

Cheyenne Brando's body was moved to her aunt's home in the town of Faaa, where she was to be buried on Monday or today, sources close to the family said on condition of anonymity.

Brando, who had a 5-year-old son by Drollet, was the daughter of Marlon Brando and Tarita Teriipaia, a Polynesian who acted with Brando in the 1962 film ``Mutiny on the Bounty.''

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