Marlon Brando's ashes scattered in Tahiti, California
Wed, Sep 22, 2004
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood legend Marlon Brando's ashes have been scattered in California and Tahiti following a memorial service attended by stars that included Michael Jackson , Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, friends revealed.
The enigmatic Oscar-winner spent time with embattled pop icon Jackson, who had become one of his closest friends, at his Neverland Ranch in the months before his death, Brando's longtime attorney David Seeley told AFP.
The remains of Brando, who died of lung failure at the age of 80 on July 1, were scattered in California's picturesque Death Valley, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Los Angeles, as well as on his beloved Tahitian atoll where he once lived, friends said.
"Marlon's ashes were spread according to his wishes following a private memorial service held at his friend Mike Medavoy's home in Los Angeles that was attended by between 100 and 120 people," Seeley said.
Seeley and other friends who were present at the California ceremony that took place in late July said that Brando's close pals Nicholson and Beatty as well as Hollywood star Sean Penn were among the friends and family present.
"It was really quite small and a lot of his family were there. It was moving, very nice," said Brando's friend of 50 years, former Hollywood agent Jay Kanter.
"I saw Warren, Jack and Sean Penn, and Michael Jackson was also there," Kanter told AFP.
After his death, the star of such films as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather," was dressed in a Japanese robe and favourite red scarf, his friend Joan Petrone told The Los Angeles Times.
The intensely secretive actor was cremated at a small service two to three days after his death in the Los Angeles mansion where he lived for more than 30 years, friends told AFP.
Some of Brando's ashes were scattered in California earlier this month shortly before his expansive Tahitian family, including at least two children and an ex-wife, returned to the Polynesian islands.
The reclusive Brando, who seldom left his home as his health declined, spent long periods of time at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, where Jackson is accused of molesting a 12-year-old boy last year, his son Miko told The Los Angeles Times.
"The last time my father left his house to go anywhere, to spend any kind of time, it was with Michael Jackson," Miko, also a longtime Jackson employee, said.
"He loved it. My father had a 24-hour chef, 24-hour security, 24-hour help, 24-hour kitchen, 24-hour maid service. Just carte blanche," he told the paper.
Seeley also told AFP that even as Brando's 21.6 million dollar estate is being wound up, his family and executors have taken steps to register his name and image as trademarks in order to protect them from commercial exploitation.
Wed, Sep 22, 2004
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood legend Marlon Brando's ashes have been scattered in California and Tahiti following a memorial service attended by stars that included Michael Jackson , Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, friends revealed.
The enigmatic Oscar-winner spent time with embattled pop icon Jackson, who had become one of his closest friends, at his Neverland Ranch in the months before his death, Brando's longtime attorney David Seeley told AFP.
The remains of Brando, who died of lung failure at the age of 80 on July 1, were scattered in California's picturesque Death Valley, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Los Angeles, as well as on his beloved Tahitian atoll where he once lived, friends said.
"Marlon's ashes were spread according to his wishes following a private memorial service held at his friend Mike Medavoy's home in Los Angeles that was attended by between 100 and 120 people," Seeley said.
Seeley and other friends who were present at the California ceremony that took place in late July said that Brando's close pals Nicholson and Beatty as well as Hollywood star Sean Penn were among the friends and family present.
"It was really quite small and a lot of his family were there. It was moving, very nice," said Brando's friend of 50 years, former Hollywood agent Jay Kanter.
"I saw Warren, Jack and Sean Penn, and Michael Jackson was also there," Kanter told AFP.
After his death, the star of such films as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront" and "The Godfather," was dressed in a Japanese robe and favourite red scarf, his friend Joan Petrone told The Los Angeles Times.
The intensely secretive actor was cremated at a small service two to three days after his death in the Los Angeles mansion where he lived for more than 30 years, friends told AFP.
Some of Brando's ashes were scattered in California earlier this month shortly before his expansive Tahitian family, including at least two children and an ex-wife, returned to the Polynesian islands.
The reclusive Brando, who seldom left his home as his health declined, spent long periods of time at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, where Jackson is accused of molesting a 12-year-old boy last year, his son Miko told The Los Angeles Times.
"The last time my father left his house to go anywhere, to spend any kind of time, it was with Michael Jackson," Miko, also a longtime Jackson employee, said.
"He loved it. My father had a 24-hour chef, 24-hour security, 24-hour help, 24-hour kitchen, 24-hour maid service. Just carte blanche," he told the paper.
Seeley also told AFP that even as Brando's 21.6 million dollar estate is being wound up, his family and executors have taken steps to register his name and image as trademarks in order to protect them from commercial exploitation.
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