Marlon Brando's Paradise Lost

December, 1993

Marlon Brando's Paradise LostToday, when one asks island residents about Marlon Brando in Tahiti, where he has owned his private atoll of Tetiaroa for the past quarter of a century, the responses fall into two categories: pained silence or "Marlon? It is tragique. Such a good man, such dreams he had—" Not only has the tiny tropical isle been shaken by the May 16, 1990, killing of Dag Drollet, son of another distinguished family, but the events since the night Brando's son shot his sist...