Kashfi married
Marlon Brando, whom she had met in the summer of 1956, on 11 October 1957. They divorced a year and a half later on 22 April 1959. The pair was mutually verbally and physically abusive to each other. Kashfi was not only abusive to Brando, but she'd also be abusive to his secretary, Alice Marchak. "Even I was subject to physical attack, as well as the house with a table thrown through a floor to ceiling sliding glass window one day while Marlon was at work". "She would call, at times daily, but Marlon's instructions were he did not wish to take her call because it would result in a war of words and ruin his day. Therefore, I took her verbal abuse." She did not align with Brando politically, according to her book. "His accusations of
genocide against the Indians ("murders, massacres, enforced starvation unprecedented in history. . . . This country was built on the blood and bones of the Indian race"), his deprecation of American motives ("The Hitler side
in Vietnam"), and his general distortions of history have repelled many who might otherwise rally to his side". They had a son,
Christian Devi Brando (1958–2008), whom she called "Devi". Kashfi and Marlon fought bitterly over Christian, with Marlon eventually winning custody. Alice Marchak was Christian's legal guardian along with Brando. Kashfi's violence and alcohol abuse during Christian's childhood was part of the reason she lost custody of him. Kashfi allegedly paid $10,000 to have Christian kidnapped and take him to
Baja California. He was later found living in a tent and ill with
bronchitis. In the 1990s, Christian was tried for killing his half-sister
Cheyenne's boyfriend. Jailed for the crime, he later died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2008, aged 49. Kashfi wrote, and later admitted that she did, a false story in her book about how Alice Marchak was allegedly dating Brando's father, Marlon Brando, Sr. Kashfi called and apologized to Marchak after its publication, along with thanking her "for taking care of my son". == Death ==