Son of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando dies: reports

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Christian Brando, the tormented son of late Hollywood acting legend Marlon Brando, has died in Los Angeles from pneumonia, his family and lawyers told US media Saturday. He was 49.

Brando, who made headlines in 1990 for shooting dead his sister Cheyenne's lover Dag Drollet, passed away early Saturday at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center.

A Brando family lawyer revealed the death to the Los Angeles Times. It was later confirmed by his ex-wife Deborah in an interview with People magazine.

Brando, the eldest of Marlon Brando's nine children, was released from prison in 1996 after serving around five years behind bars for the slaying of Drollet on May 16, 1990.

The murder took place at his actor father's sprawling hilltop...