The story of Tetiaroa, Marlon Brando’s enchanting island laboratory
It wasn’t like Marlon Brando to go spilling his private beans to the world about the life he had spent his years protecting. American actor Marlon Brando, circa 1965, about a year before he bought Tetiaroa. (Screen Archives / Getty Images) But about Tetiaroa — the Tahitian atoll of his childhood yearnings, and the refuge of his adult life — he did.We were friends for the last years of his life, and one day in 1997, at his house on the crown of Mulholland Drive, he said to me something he’d never…