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| | Trouble in Paradise - Los Angeles Times |
 | | And less than a year later, acting on a revised will that included no specific provision for Tetiaroa, the executors of his estate sold an interest in the island for $2 million to Richard Bailey, a Tahiti-based hotel developer who had courted Brando without success for several years. |
 | | He stopped going to Tetiaroa after his son Christian killed a Tahitian native in 1990, and by the time of his death, the resort he built was pretty much in ruins. |
 | | Technically, Tetiaroa is not an island but an atoll of 13 islets—or, as the Polynesians call them, motus—surrounded by a lagoon that is separated from the ocean by the reef. |
| www.latimes.com /features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-brando43oct23,0,5284655.story?coll=la-home-magazine (1425 words) |
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