Tarita Teriipaia is a former actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for having been the third wife of actor Marlon Brando, whom she later divorced. For media and entertainment appearances and engagements she has usually been billed as Tarita.

Tarita Teriipaia is a former French Polynesian actress of Chinese descent who is best known as the third wife of American actor, film director and political activist Marlon Brando. In 1962, she appeared opposite him as his love interest in the American Technicolor epic historical drama film ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’.

They exchanged vows in 1962 and Tarita went on to become the mother of Brando's two children - a son, Simon Teihotu, and a daughter, Tarita Cheyenne. After the actor's death is 2004, she released her memoir and revealed that she wrote the book to get over her past, reports Mail Online .

Tuki Brando is a successful model. Tuki was first discovered when he was photographed with his grandmother Tarita Teriipaia by iconic photographer Bruce Weber. Weber later shot Tuki for the cover of L'Uomo Vogue, which launched Tuki's modeling career. Tuki has since modeled for Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and TechnoMarine timepieces ...

In fact, by the early '60s, infidelity destroyed their relationship with Moreno attempting suicide in Brando's home upon learning about his affair with Tarita Teriipaia, his "Mutiny on the Bounty" co-star. After her recovery, Moreno severed all personal ties. In 1969 she starred beside Brando in "The Night of the Following Day."

The memoirs of Marlon Brando's Tahitian former wife has hit bookshelves in France, lifting the lid on the secretive actor's troubled life and the suicide of their daughter. Tarita Teriipaia ...

Cheyenne Brando, the daughter of Brando and his Polynesian wife, Tarita Tariipia, and Drollet, son of a prominent Tahitian politician, had been living together in Tahiti for more than a year ...

TARITA TERIIPIA (corr), who met and fell for the late star on the set of Mutiny on the Bounty in the early 1960s, later bore him a son and daughter but admits life with Brando was a living hell.

After they divorced two years later, he married the Bora Bora-born actress Tarita Teriipaia, his co-star in Mutiny On The Bounty, when she was just 20 and he was 48.