Christian Brando(1958-2008)

Pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 16 May 1990 shooting death of Dag Drollet, the father of the then-unborn child of Brando's half-sister Cheyenne. He confronted Drollet with a gun after Cheyenne told him that Drollet had been beating her. Brando later claimed to the Los Angeles Times that Drollet grabbed for the gun as Brando turned to leave, and it went off. He served nearly 5 years of a 10-year prison sentence. Cheyenne committed suicide in 1995.

The family kept changing shape. I'd sit down at the breakfast table and say, 'Who are you?' (Recalling his family life with his father.)