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Christian Brando, the eldest son of Hollywood star Marlon Brando, has died at the age of 49.The New York Post and people reported on their Web sites that Brando, son of the late screen star and Welsh actress Anna Kashfi, had died of complications from pneumonia. "His body was totally compromised," Brando's ex-wife, Deborah, told People. "He'd lived so hard ... this is just so sad."People reported that he had been in a coma and on a ventilator. Brando made worldwide headlines in 1990 when he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter after shooting to death his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend, Dag Drollet, a crime for which he served five years in prison.Cheyenne committed suicide in 1995 at the age of 25.

Hollywood star and legend Marlon Brando's son Christian is suffering with pneumonia, his lawyer has revealed.The 49-year-old was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles on January 11th for what he thought was influenza, but his ailment has now been diagnosed as pneumonia. And Brando’s attorney Benjamin Brin says he is doing much better. He says, "The prognosis is for a complete recovery. He’s going to be OK."