1991 A Current Affair Clip (Bloodshed at Brando's -- Partial)

(c)1991 21st Century FOX

PERSONNEL:
Anchor: Maureen O'Boyle
Producer/Reporter: Steve Dunleavy

Early 1991 special edition of A Current Affair focusing on what was termed "Bloodshed at Brando's" and anchored by then-WNYW anchor Maureen O'Boyle (who had not long before replaced original host/fellow WNYW anchor Maury "You ARE the father" Povich). Reporting is Steve Dunleavy

The story in question revolved around the trial of Christian Brando, son of silver screen icon Marlon; who had been charged with the May 16, 1990 murder of Dag Drollet, the Tahitian-born boyfriend of Christian's half-sister Cheyenne. Christian Brando subsequently pled guilty to manslaughter (the charge was reduced from murder after Cheyenne {8 months pregnant at the time of the shooting} was placed into a psychatric institution following two suicide attempts and was ultimately declared unfit to testify); admitting to being drunk but stating that the gun went off after a struggle with Drollet.

Included are interviews with Drollet's parents and an extensive interview with Christian Brando's mother, Anna Kashfi (who concurred with Marlon's comment during the trial that he had been a "failure as a father" after losing custody of the younger Brando following a bitter 1966 divorce)

AFTERMATH: Christian Brando was eventually sentenced to a short 5 year sentence after accepting the plea bargain for manslaughter. By the time he got out; Cheyenne (distraught over losing custody of her son) had taken her own life a year earlier. However, the younger Brando would soon be linked to another high-profile murder case, as the defense attorneys for actor Robert Blake (on trial for the 2001 murder of wife Bonnie Lee Bakley) alleged Christian was involved; with testimony charging that Brando had fathered Bakley's child (while Brando was in Washington state at the time; witnesses charged in the pre-trial hearing that associates of Brando, including star witness Duffy Hambleton, were involved in the crime (the judge prevented the defense from airing the view in court; and Blake was acquitted but later declared liable). In 2004, Brando married actress Deborah Presley but was annulled the next year owing to abuse allegations that Brando ultimately pled no contest to (resulting in probation and drug/alcohol rehab sentencing). Brando would eventually succumb to pneumonia in January 2008 at just 49.

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