Marlon Brando’s family caught up in battle over eldest son’s grave funeral arrangements

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Anna Kashfi, Brando's first wife, was buried Wednesday in Kalama, Washington, after dying of breast and colon cancer aged 80
Her dying wish was to be buried next to the couple's son Christian
But Christian's first wife, Mary, bought the plot and refused to give it up
Anna was buried in the plot above her son - meaning they are head to head

By Daniel Bates In New York For The Daily Mail

Published: 13:19 EST, 31 August 2015 | Updated: 19:58 EST, 31 August 2015

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Marlon Brando's family are involved in a bitter battle over the arrangements at his eldest son's grave.

The dying request of Brando's first wife Anna Kashfi to be buried next to their son Christian has been blocked, according to reports.

Christian's first wife Mary, who is still alive, had already bought the plot and refused to give it up even after Kashfi's death.

Kashfi, who was born to a British father, has instead been buried in the plot above Christian, meaning they are head to head.

Feud: The dying request of Brando's first wife Anna Kashfi to be buried next to their son Christian was blocked, according to reports, following Kasfi's death from cancer earlier this month

Passed away: Actress Anna Kashfi, the first of Marlon Brando's three wives, has died at the age of 80. She is seen here with son Christian

Tragic: Christian was jailed for 10 years and was freed after half the term. He eventually died of double pneumonia in 2008. He was 49

Kashfi died at the age of 80 after losing her battle to breast and colon cancer. She was laid to rest in a cemetery in Kalama, Washington, last Wednesday.

TMZ reported that a representative from Kashfi's estate contacted Mary and asked her to give up her plot but she refused.

As a result Kashfi's funeral directors were unable to honor her last request and so went ahead with 'plan b' instead.

The row is the latest turbulent chapter in the life of Brando and his family.

Before her death Kashfi was involved in her own battle with Brando's estate because she wanted his ashes, which she said were rightfully hers.

Christian, who was the eldest of his father's 11 biological and adopted children, led a troubled life until his death from pneumonia in 2008 at the age of 49.

Christian served five years in jail for shooting dead his half-sister's abusive boyfriend Dag Drollett and after being released was accused of shooting dead a former girlfriend.

Christian had always been close to Cheyenne, who was pregnant by Drollet, 26. When she claimed her lover had been beating her, Christian went to confront him.

Although he claimed that his gun went off accidentally during a struggle, Drollet was shot in the back of the head, while holding a packet of cigarettes and a TV remote.

In court Christian pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Prosecutors wanted to charge him with murder, but Cheyenne, their main witness, had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Tahiti, where her father owned a private island.

Tender moment: Anna, who passed away in Washington state, is seen cradling her son, Christian, as a baby

Marlon Brando made an emotional hour-long plea for mercy, tearfully telling the judge: 'I think I perhaps failed him as a father. The tendency is to blame the other parent. But I am certain there were things I could have done differently.'

He told the court that Christian had been the subject of a long and bitter custody battle. At one point, he claimed, Kashfi had kidnapped the boy and taken him to Mexico.

When he finally gained permanent custody, Christian was 13 and 'a basket case of emotional disorders'. Looking across the court, Marlon told the Drollet family: 'I'm sorry... If I could trade places with Dag, I would.'

Drollet's father later said he thought Brando was acting and his son was 'getting away with murder'.

Christian was jailed for 10 years - considered a light sentence. He was freed after half the term. A year before his release in 1996, Cheyenne, then 25, hanged herself at her mother's home in Tahiti.

In 2005 Christian pleaded guilty to beating his then-wife, Deborah, and was put on probation.

Christian's attempts to get into acting failed and he never upstaged his father, who died four years before he did in 2004.

Kashfi has a family history that is the subject of debate but it appears she was born Joan O'Callaghan in Darjeeling to British-born father John, a steel trader from London.

Her family moved to Cardiff when she was 13 before she reinvented herself as Anna Kashfi and went to London where she became a model and actress.

Among the films she featured in was Battle Hymn in 1957 in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson.

Troubled: Christian Brando (above at his murder trial at Santa Monica Courthouse in Santa Monica) was accused of killing his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend Dag Drollet in 1990

She had met Brando a year earlier when he was 33 and she was just 19 at the commissary at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood whilst making her debut in The Mountain alongside Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner.

According to Brando's friend George Englund, she was a 'revelation out of Marlon's dream book, brown skin, lustrous eyes, fatal smile, and over the commissary commotion, tinkling fragments of her English-Hindi accent'.

By the time they got married Kashfi was already pregnant with Christian but the marriage did not last and they split up less than two years later amid constant rows.

Kashif's family history became a subject of controversy in her 1979 memoir she claimed that she was the daughter of a wealthy Indian architect named Devi Kashfi.

Fight: The actress lost custody of their first son, Christian, aged 13 following a court battle with the actor

However in interviews O'Callaghan insisted that she was his daughter and that her real name was Joan.

In her memoir, called 'Brando for Breakfast', Kashfi also savaged Brando, who would married twice more after her, and said that he was a narcissist and a pervert.

Among the more blunt passages were one in which she called him a 'balding, paunchy hypochondriac, a middle-aged, wheezing Superman; an egomaniac, a rock upon which other egos founder'.

Kashfi was photographed slapping Brando outside a courtroom in Santa Monica, California, in 1961 after a bruising hearing in the child custody battle for Christian.