Christian Brando, eldest son of the late actor Marlon Brando, has died in Los Angeles, aged 49.
He had reportedly been in a coma and on a ventilator, and died of complications arising from pneumonia.
"His body was totally compromised," said his former wife, Deborah. "He'd lived so hard."
After a few minor acting roles, he hit the headlines in 1990, when he shot dead his half-sister's boyfriend, for which he served five years in jail.
In 2005, he pleaded guilty to abusing his then-wife Deborah and was placed on probation, and ordered to undergo drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
Christian Brando also figured in the murder trial of Hollywood actor Robert Blake, whose wife was shot to death in 2001.
He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on the stand when a lawyer for Blake, who was eventually acquitted, suggested that Brando had been the killer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7211467.stm
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