Brando Resort Overlaps Jackson’s Land
20th April 2005
An environmentally-sensitive 30-bungalow resort, to be called, “The Brando,” is scheduled to open in 2008 on Tetiaroa, the island the actor bought in 1965. The only current inhabitant is Brando’s son, Teihotu, one of his children with ex-wife Tarita Teriipia.
Major obstacles to the project have been cleared, but there is much work to be done to create the $40-million project on a 150-acre (60 hectare) island with no electricity or running water.
Legal challenges remain, among them a lawsuit by Jo Ann Corrales, who says she was Brando’s business manager but was removed as an executor of his will days before his July, 2004, death.
Corrales says the project overlaps a half-acre chunk of Tetiaroa that Brando deeded to Michael Jackson in 2003 after visiting Jackson’s Neverland Valley Ranch.
Estate attorneys say the offer to Jackson was merely a token gesture and Bailey said Brando never mentioned the deed even though they spoke until just before he died.
Source: CNN
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