He's probably best known for having been convicted of manslaughter in the death of his half-sister's lover, Dag Drollet, in 1990.
Cheyenne Brando, as we know, committed suicide a few years later.
Here is more about his death. Brando died of complications from pneumonia.
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As for Christian, he dropped out of school in 11th grade and began drinking and using LSD, tried a variety of jobs including welder and tree trimmer and lived for a time in Alaska, piloting a barge for a fish processor during the summers. But he mostly lived for years with his father in Brando's hilltop estate.
It was there that on May 16, 1990, Christian Brando confronted Drollet after Cheyenne confided that he had been beating her.
"I did not go into that room to kill Dag Drollet," Christian Brando told The Times in 1991. "I just wanted to scare him."
Brando said that as he turned to leave, his arm still outstretched, Drollet tried to grab the gun and it went off.
"I just sat there and watched the life go out of this guy," Brando said.
In the interview with The Times, Brando said that later revelations about Cheyenne's mental health made him later question whether she was ever beaten by Drollet.
"I feel like a complete chump for believing her," he said.
