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Brando did not “smuggle” his daughter Cheyenne away to protect his son; he wanted to protect her. She was mentally unstable giving conflicting accounts to police , but LA prosecutors exploited this to drain Marlon emotionally and financially.The Drollet family’s strong influence over lawyers and judges in Tahiti could not establish that she was mentally competent to testify.

Since the night of the incident in May 1990, Cheyenne was absent from the room and severely mentally unstable, making her contradictory statements legally void and inadmissible as court evidence. Official interrogations in Tahiti between 1990 and 1992 by judges and the victim’s father failed to establish her legal competency or provide any evidence implicating Christian in premeditated murder or involving her in a full murder crime. This refutes the media narrative that Marlon "smuggled her away" to protect Christian, as she was relocated solely due to her mental inability to provide legal testimony before any court. The prosecution exploited her psychological breakdown to drain Marlon emotionally and financially, despite knowing that reaching a plea deal with Christian was inevitable regardless of her presence.

Do you know that Christian Brando was shocked to know that he was married to Deborah Yandel /Presely while he was drunk. They dated for a few weeks in 2004. She met him at the gates of his father's house while gathering with some fans. This was when Christian when went back to LA for the in "October 2004".
The marriage occurred after midnight in Las Vegas. Christian was so intoxicated that he mistakenly signed as the bride.
In less than hour Deborah contacted every newspaper in USA to spread the news even one of the journalists ( Clark Champ from People) wanted to speak to Christian on the phone and realised that he wasn't aware of anything .
Within a few weeks Christian annulled and cancelled the fake marriage . But unfortunately she managed to steal his family name in the same way she stole the name Presley. In "December 2004" Christian filed a case against her and had a restraining order because she kept stalking him and during NewYear she broke into his house and attacked him savagely. This con artist made a lot of money from selling fake stories to tabloids about Brando and Presely whom she never ever met.

“I did not go into that room to kill Dag Drollet. I just wanted to scare him. I just sat there and watched the life go out of this guy.”

He continued:

“It’s a tragedy and I do feel bad. If I could give my life to have him come back, I’d do it, but there’s nothing I can do. I have to live with this for the rest of my life. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it.”

This is what Christian reportedly told police during his interrogation, as quoted by Vanity Fair in 1990:

“Man, I didn’t mean to shoot him. He had my hand, then BLOOM! Jesus, man, it wasn’t murder…. Please believe me, I wouldn’t do it in my father’s house.”

Christian later suggested that being the son of one of the world’s most famous actors only made public judgment harsher. In a 1991 interview with Hello! Magazine, he said:

“I am treated worse than anyone and I’m painted much blacker than I really am. Everyone seems to think I’m some sort of Jack the Ripper, a throat slitter. I am nothing like that.”

He added:

“But nobody has heard my side of the story yet. You see, it all happened in his house, but not in the way it has been made to appear. The situation was not one of hate and pain—it was a domestic situation. I would like to explain what happened that night.”

More than a decade later, in 2006, the pain had clearly not disappeared:

“Today, there isn’t a single day that I don’t think about that tragedy. Not a single day that I don’t think about how to make up for my mistake. But how can I? If only I could extract from Dag’s cheek that small piece of metal that took his life. It’s a dream I often have.”

By 2007, Christian was still frustrated by the way he was portrayed by the media:

“I didn’t get away with anything! I did my time.”

He also complained about the constant public scrutiny:

“There are people in the media that are gonna make up anything about me. They hit me over and over. I can’t help the media.”

Although he was often portrayed as unstable or self-destructive, Christian spent years living quietly and working professionally as a welder in the heavy-equipment industry.

The death of his father remained one of the deepest emotional wounds of his life:

“I feel lonely and vulnerable. I’m having a hard time with my father’s death. I can’t come to terms with it.”

Sources

Hello! Magazine (1991)
Police interrogation quoted by Vanity Fair (1990)
Los Angeles Times (1995)
Paris Match / VSD (2006)
New York Daily News (2007)

“I did not go into that room to kill Dag Drollet. I just wanted to scare him. I just sat there and watched the life go out of this guy.”

He continued:

“It’s a tragedy and I do feel bad. If I could give my life to have him come back, I’d do it, but there’s nothing I can do. I have to live with this for the rest of my life. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it.”

This is what Christian reportedly told police during his interrogation, as quoted by Vanity Fair in 1990:

“Man, I didn’t mean to shoot him. He had my hand, then BLOOM! Jesus, man, it wasn’t murder…. Please believe me, I wouldn’t do it in my father’s house.”

Christian later suggested that being the son of one of the world’s most famous actors only made public judgment harsher. In a 1991 interview with Hello! Magazine, he said:

“I am treated worse than anyone and I’m painted much blacker than I really am. Everyone seems to think I’m some sort of Jack the Ripper, a throat slitter. I am nothing like that.”

He added:

“But nobody has heard my side of the story yet. You see, it all happened in his house, but not in the way it has been made to appear. The situation was not one of hate and pain—it was a domestic situation. I would like to explain what happened that night.”

More than a decade later, in 2006, the pain had clearly not disappeared:

“Today, there isn’t a single day that I don’t think about that tragedy. Not a single day that I don’t think about how to make up for my mistake. But how can I? If only I could extract from Dag’s cheek that small piece of metal that took his life. It’s a dream I often have.”

By 2007, Christian was still frustrated by the way he was portrayed by the media:

“I didn’t get away with anything! I did my time.”

He also complained about the constant public scrutiny:

“There are people in the media that are gonna make up anything about me. They hit me over and over. I can’t help the media.”

Although he was often portrayed as unstable or self-destructive, Christian spent years living quietly and working professionally as a welder in the heavy-equipment industry.

The death of his father remained one of the deepest emotional wounds of his life:

“I feel lonely and vulnerable. I’m having a hard time with my father’s death. I can’t come to terms with it.”

Sources

Hello! Magazine (1991)
Police interrogation quoted by Vanity Fair (1990)
Los Angeles Times (1995)
Paris Match / VSD (2006)
New York Daily News (2007)

More recently, renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who worked on numerous high-profile criminal cases, including the case involving Marlon Brando’s son, Christian, published a book called " American Autopsy " revealing the truth that the media had hidden for years.**
Despite the fact that it appeared that Christian had shot Drollet from above and that the bullet had exited the body, no bullet was recovered from his body or from the couch. Dr. Baden insisted on looking at the scene, and like the officers, failed to find the bullet in the couch or the body.
Baden noticed that the room has a shag rug. He got down on his hands and knees and eventually found the bullet under the rug. That tended to support how Christian had described things.
Dr.Baden wrote: "I'd later testify that the bullet's trajectory through Drollet's neck and into the shag carpet showed that he had been sitting up on the couch. Gunshot residue tests performed by police showed that Drollet's hand was near the muzzle when it discharged-consistent with Christian's statement that the weapon
went off accidentally when Drollet tried to grab it."
"It's very hard to see an entry hole in a shag rug," Baden explains. "But what impressed me most in that case was when we found the bullet and we called the police. A sergeant came and I asked why the officers at the crime scene hadn't done a better job looking for the bullet. I'll never forget what he said. 'Look, doc. If you do a lousy job all the time, just because an important case comes up doesn't mean you can now do a good job. You don't know how to do it any better.' That will live with me forever. Unless you do the best job you can with every crime scene and every autopsy, you won't do it right when more important ones come in. To us, every case is equally important. When it comes to death, we're all equal."

Dr. Michael Baden’s account is not the only source challenging the public narrative. Years later, a police officer who worked at the LAPD crime lab wrote that detectives involved in the investigation privately believed the shooting was accidental. (2nd picture)

Christian Brando:

"I am treated worse than anyone and I'm painted much blacker than I really am. Everyone seems to think I'm some sort of Jack the Ripper, a throat slitter, I am nothing like that." Adding "But nobody has heard my side of the story yet. You see it all happened in his house but not in the way it has been made to appear. The situation was not one of hate and pain — it was a domestic situation. I would like to explain what happened that night."(1991)

“I did not go into that room to kill Dag Drollet, I just wanted to scare him. I just sat there and watched the life go out of this guy.” he said. “It’s a tragedy and I do feel bad. If I could give my life to have him come back, I’d do it, but there’s nothing I can do. I have to live with this for the rest of my life, I wake up with it and go to sleep with it.(1995)

"Today, there isn't a single day that I don't think about that tragedy. Not a single day that I don't think about how to make up for my mistake. But how can I? If only I could extract from Dag's cheek that small piece of metal that took his life! It's a dream I often have."(2006)

Source:
Hello Magazine
Paris Match/DVS Magazine
LA Times Newspapers

Christian Brando playing shaking hands with a spider

Baden has seen it all. He
and criminalist Henry C. Lee
were with O.J. Simpson just
before he took off in his
Bronco on his famous
getaway chase on the LA
freeway. He was expected to
OJ Simpson booking
come into the police
photo
department and give himself
(AP)
up for a crime that would mesmerize the
world. Instead, he just drove off.
Nevertheless, he was arrested and tried and
eventually acquitted, and for the first time, the
way a crime scene is handled was publicly
scrutinized.
On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman were attacked and killed
outside Simpson's home. O. J. Simpson
became a suspect, and his lawyer, Robert
Shapiro, called Michael Baden and asked him
to come. He and Lee arrived at Simpson's
home five days after the murder to examine
him. They were interrupted by a call from the
police, and before they knew it, OJ was gone.
Once he was involved, Baden learned about the
crime scene investigation and saw how many
mistakes had been made. Protective gear was
neglected by the cops, and the bodies were
handled in such a way that crucial evidence
was lost. As surprising as this might be in such
a high-profile case, Baden had already learned
the reason from an investigator in another
famous case among the celebrities of
California.
In 1990, Marlon Brando's son, Christian, shot
and killed Dag Drollet, his half-sister's
boyfriend. He claimed it was an accident when
they wrestled for control over the gun, but the
position of the body on the couch indicated
otherwise to the police. Christian was arrested
for murder. However, despite the fact that it
appeared that Christian had shot Drollet from
above and that the bullet had exited the body,
no bullet was recovered from his clothing or
from the couch. Brando wanted the opinion of
a forensic pathologist, so Baden was hired. He
insisted on looking at the scene, and like the
officers, failed to find the bullet in the couch.
Then he noticed that the room has a shag rug.
He got down on his hands and knees and
eventually found the bullet under the rug. That
tended to support how Christian had described
things.
"It's very hard to see an entry hole in a shag
rug," Baden explains. "But what impressed me
most in that case was when we found the
bullet and we called the police. A sergeant
came and I asked why the officers at the crime
scene hadn't done a better job looking for the
bullet. I'll never forget what he said. 'Look,
doc. If you do a lousy job all the time, just
because an important case comes up doesn't

mean you can now do a good job. You don't
know how to do it any better.' That will live
with me forever. Unless you do the best job
you can with every crime scene and every
autopsy, you won't do it right when more
important ones come in. To us, every case is
equally important. When it comes to death,
we're all equal."
Part of the problem, he believes, is the way
death investigation has been practiced in the
U.S. "When you look back on the history of
murder investigations in this country," states
Baden, "in most places we still use the same
system we used in colonial days. The people
who do the investigations are elected and they
often have no medical expertise. We get upset
about the handling of Nicole Brown Simpson
and JonBenet Ramsey because we think these
cases weren't investigated according to the
community's standards. Sadly, they were in
fact handled according to the community
standards, which are pretty poor. We have
around fifty murders a day in the U.S., and
most are investigated at the crime scene by
people not competent to do it. Autopsies, too,
are often done by physicians not trained to do
them." He feels that this practice has to
change.
One way to accomplish this is through more
and better education. The first hour at a crime
scene is the most crucial, but it's generally the
most inexperienced officers who find the
evidence. They have to be trained better to
know how protect it, because even experienced
officers who know better will get curious and
go in and trample evidence.
"The OJ Simpson case raised the alarm about
the crime scene," Baden points out. "As a
result of the awakening of public consciousness
during that case, there is now increased
education and awareness in police departments
and medical examiner's offices. They know
they have to do a better job. Yet it's hard to
teach it to old-timers, because they never did it
that way. On the Simpson and Goldman
murders, Detective Vannatter said they didn't
wear a hairnet and booties to a crime scene
because a manly cop doesn't do that. So what
sense is there for the crime lab people to do it
right when the people who initially found the
evidence didn't do their job right?"
Yet even with better training, it's not always
easy to tell when a crime scene has been
staged. That requires an experienced person,
and when a homicide isn't called to the scene,
which is what happened in the following case,
sometimes it's the ME who has to pick up the
ball.

Donn Beach (born Ernest Raymond Gantt;
February 22, 1907 - June 7, 1989) was an American adventurer, businessman, and World War Il veteran who was the "founding father" of tiki culture. He is known for opening the first prototypical tiki bar, Don's Beachcomber, during the 1930s in Hollywood, California, which was expanded to a chain of dozens of restaurants throughout the United States. He later built the International Market Place and additional establishments in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. He married three times.
Beach then moved to the Territory of Hawaii, where he continued his burgeoning entertainment and tiki-themed enterprises. He settled in Waikiki, where he opened his second "Polynesian Village", known as Waikiki Village.As the creator of the International Market Place, for its construction he placed his offices in the limbs of an enormous banyan tree that was in the market's center. The village was dotted with many thatch huts and wood carvings made by one of Beach's friends, "Mick" Brownlee. The International Market Place would also feature the Dagger Bar, and a series of Don the Beachcomber restaurants. The bar was named after a dagger that was allegedly a trophy that Beach brought back from his time in WWII, a reproduction of an imperial Roman-style Puglia knife that he had gotten in Italy.
The market flourished, and Beach's impact on tourism was such that many viewed his contributions as profoundly important. He was honored with a House Resolution Tourism Award in
1957.[9] Beach and Pete Wimberly also played an important role in establishing preservation laws for the Lahaina Historic District, which was later designated as a National Historic Landmark in
1962.At its height, the International Market Place encompassed 50 shops, night clubs, and restaurants, three of which were owned by Beach himself.

Donn Beach (born Ernest Raymond Gantt; February 22, 1907 – June 7, 1989) was an American adventurer, businessman, and World War II veteran who was the "founding father" of tiki culture. He is known for opening the first prototypical tiki bar, Don’s Beachcomber, during the 1930s in Hollywood, California, which was expanded to a chain of dozens of restaurants throughout the United States. He later built the International Market Place and additional establishments in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. He married three times.

Beach then moved to the Territory of Hawaii, where he continued his burgeoning entertainment and tiki-themed enterprises. He settled in Waikiki, where he opened his second "Polynesian Village", known as Waikiki Village.As the creator of the International Market Place, for its construction he placed his offices in the limbs of an enormous banyan tree that was in the market's center. The village was dotted with many thatch huts and wood carvings made by one of Beach's friends, "Mick" Brownlee. The International Market Place would also feature the Dagger Bar, and a series of Don the Beachcomber restaurants.The bar was named after a dagger that was allegedly a trophy that Beach brought back from his time in WWII, a reproduction of an imperial Roman-style Puglia knife that he had gotten in Italy.
The market flourished, and Beach's impact on tourism was such that many viewed his contributions as profoundly important. He was honored with a House Resolution Tourism Award in 1957.[9] Beach and Pete Wimberly also played an important role in establishing preservation laws for the Lahaina Historic District, which was later designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1962.At its height, the International Market Place encompassed 50 shops, night clubs, and restaurants, three of which were owned by Beach himself.