Marlon Brando

 

Two weeks before Marlon Brando died in 2004, he changed his will. In it, he acknowledged publicly the existence of eleven children, although he was known to have many more.

Of these children, he disinherited one, daughter Petra. Curiously, he also disinherited Tuki Brando, the son of his late daughter Cheyenne — a boy he was close with, and whose mother had been his favorite child.

There were a lot of Brando descendants and not a crazy amount of money to share between them — between the ten children mentioned in the will, there were some thirty grandchildren as well.

The total sum of the inheritance was around 30 million US dollars, but divided by so many people, minus fees, minus deductions, none of the Brandos ended up getting particularly rich after the passing of the family patriarch.

Grandson Tuki Brando, the sole grandchild to be specifically disinherited, never felt slighted or hurt. He felt his grandfather had done what he had done, in a sense to “save” him from the wealth, and force him to make something of his own.

He ended up becoming a reasonably successful male model, and studied medicine on the side. He is now a doctor and lives a private life, removed from the spotlight. So do most of the other Brando descendants, by the way — none of them are fabulously wealthy, and none of them pursued a career in show business.