Eco-resort being built on Marlon Brando’s Polynesian atoll

Marlon Brando’s French Polynesian atoll, Tetiaroa, will be open to the public for the first time when a new eco-resort called the Brando is completed in 2011.

[Corrected at 1:47 p.m.  Aug. 18:  This is not the first time that Tetiaroa will be open to the public. The atoll once had a small hotel that was open to the public.]

After years of false starts, construction has finally begun on the atoll, where the late, reclusive superstar lived for several years. The luxury resort will be the only hotel on Tetiaroa, a playground of Tahitian kings long before Brando bought it in 1965.

Plans call for 47 bungalow villas with private plunge pools, a spa, a fitness center and a community pool. Activities such as scuba diving and archaeological tours of royal Tahitian sites will be offered. Tetiaroa, about 35 miles from Tahiti, is a 13-island chain circled by a coral reef.

The Brando project is being overseen by Tahiti Beachcomber SA, whose chief executive, Richard Bailey, was a friend of Brando’s.

— Rosemary McClure, Special to the Los Angeles Times

Photo: Tetiaroa, the French Polynesian atoll where the Brando resort is being built. Credit: The Brando.

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