August 22, 2025 • 10 mins
#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #fameandaddiction #familychaos #tragicyouth #darkfame #addictionhorror This heartbreaking story chronicles the life of Christian Devi, a young child thrust into the harsh spotlight of fame while battling the devastating grip of addiction. Torn between public expectations and a family fractured by chaos, Christian’s journey is one of struggle, loss, and the desperate search for peace. A tragic tale that exposes the dark side of fame and the personal battles often hidden behind the curtain. horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrortales, fame, addiction, familychaos, tragicstory, childhoodtrauma, darkcelebrity, mentalhealthstruggles, personalhorror, emotionalpain, brokenfamily, loss, substanceabuse, horrorinreallife, youthtragedy
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Christian Devy has survived two decades of sensational conflict between
his parents, but the event that took its toll on
Christian until his death. One night, Anna took an overdose
of sleeping pills, trying to commit suicide, or she simply
overestimated her tolerance. In any case, she collapsed on the
floor in a heap. Christian picked up the phone and
(00:23):
managed to tell the operator that his mommy was sick.
Moments later, police and paramedics arrived at Anna's house on
Tiger Tale Road in Brentwood. The copse called Marlon Brando,
who rushed over and took Christian to his home on
Mulholland Drive. Marlin's recollection is recorded in a declaration filed
the same day. At or about two a m. Of
(00:44):
the morning of December seventh, I received an emergency phone
call from the Los Angeles Police Department. They were calling
from Miss Cashfee's home. I was told that my six
and a half year old boy was unable to arouse
his mother, who has been unconscious. The boy called the operator,
who called the police. The police came to the house
(01:04):
and found Miss Koshfi comatose and Christian alone with his mother.
I then immediately went to Miss Koshfee's house and discovered
that she had been taken to the emergency ward of
the UCLA Medical Center suffering from an overdose of barbiturates.
I was further advised at UCLA Medical Center that the
medical findings showed that she had taken four mgs of
(01:24):
a short acting barbiturate, a very dangerous dosage. When I
arrived at her house, there were empty bottles thrown on
the floor, and my son had had nothing to eat
all day. He was frightened, hungry, and uncared for. I
took the boy to my house when I left for
work that morning. He was still highly upset, nervous, and agitated,
(01:47):
and had been unable to sleep all night. My secretary,
Alice Marchik, and my maid remained at home with Christian.
At about one p m that date, and while I
was at work, Miss Koshfee in assisted and obtained her
release from the hospital, broke through the gate and fence
around my house, broke into the house, assaulted and struck
my secretary through a table through the plate glass window,
(02:10):
and ran off with our son. Christian was crying and
screaming with fright I have discovered that Miss Koshfee has
kept a loaded revolver at her home, and she carried
it around and played with it while she was under
the influence of barbiturates and intoxicants. My son's safety and
welfare are in extreme and immediate danger. The child is
(02:31):
in a terrible distraught state. Miss Koshfee is incapable of
taking care of his needs and welfare. Marlin filed a
report at a North Hollywood police station accusing me of
malicious mischief. Then at the Santa Monica court House, he
submitted his declaration. Temporary custody of Devy was granted by
Judge Edward Brand, thereby igniting yet more violent explosions. That
(02:54):
same day, armed with his court order, Marlin drove directly
to my home in Brentwood, accompanied by his lawyer and
two private detectives. No one answered the doorbell. Anna had
taken Devy to a nearby hotel to thwart just such
an attempted countercoup. Anna was in the bedroom of the
hotel suite, clothed in a nightgown and Payne Noir preparing
(03:15):
to retire. Devy was in the front room. Despite the
earlier confrontation at Marlon's house. He was now calm and
had finished his supper. She heard scuffling noises as I
left the bathroom and rushed through the doorway. Devy was gone.
The front door open. She glimpsed Marlon and several police
officers dragging Christian down the corridor. The headline in the
(03:38):
Herald Examiner screamed Nightie rampage Jail's Brando's X, a two
column article on the front page began bruised, barefoot and belligerent.
Actress Anakoshfi thirty bailed out of jail early today after
allegedly slugging two police officers in a twenty four hour
bout of violence with her ex husband, actor Marlon Brando
(03:59):
over custody of their six year old son. At the
end of the required six months stay, the boy returned
to California noticeably calmer and less disturbed, although he apparently
made up a story of the lovings, burying an effigy
of Koshfee while telling the boy, your mother is wicked.
She has to be buried deep down, an event that,
on the face of it, seemed highly unlikely because of
(04:21):
Anna's admitted alcohol and drug abuse. Marlon was awarded temporary
custody of Christian in December nineteen sixty four. When the
papers were served, Koshfee went on a rampage, slapped three people,
and was arrested for assault. She later admitted to having
taken barbiturates in a suicide attempt, and it was ruled
that she could see her son only in the presence
(04:43):
of an attorney. Don Crutchfield was hired during the wild
and acrimonious divorce of Marlon Brando and Anna Koshfee. Christian
was six then. Crutchfield said it was his job to
protect the boy from being grabbed by Koshfee and taken
out of the country Christian Brando, he says, he was
the first celebrity kit I handled. He was my little
(05:06):
boy for six months. I took his hand and was
with him everywhere. Though Marlin and Cashfee fought to ger him.
Each would leave Christian in the care of a succession
of nanny's nurses, secretaries and schools, or on his own.
Let me be more precise, the boy had a mother
who was certifiable and a father who was almost always
(05:26):
somewhere else, whether physically or emotionally. I wasn't getting paid
for parenting, but you just couldn't help feeling for this
emotionally wounded kid. So there I was living in Marlon
Brando's house with complete charge of his son, which lasted
for a few months. Dot I will always think of
Christian as a little kid. There was a lot of
love between us, Crutchfield says, going through old papers to
(05:50):
find stories about himself. I helped him with his homework
and taught him manners. It's heart breaking to see what
happens to these kids. Crutchfield says, I can divorce myself
from cases, but not from them. I'd have given my
life for Christian. Now he's just walking dead. It happens,
(06:10):
he says, the children of celebrities find themselves second to
their parents careers. They craved the love that's never there.
When he was a little kid, Christian always looked a
little like a wounded deer. Crutchfield says, there was a
lot of hurt in his eyes. I saw that same
look when he was in court for murder. In February
(06:32):
nineteen sixty five, a judge in Santa Monica ordered that
Christian be put in the care of Marlin's sister Francis
for a six month cooling off period. Fran, an elementary
school teacher, and her then husband, artist Dick Loving, brought
Christian to the brand Of family farm in Mondeline, Illinois,
where they lived with their three young daughters. Christian was
(06:52):
about seven years old and an absolutely wild child. Dick
Loving remembered, like Marlin, Fran and I thought of the
farm as a sort of haven. We were low key
living in the country, and into this structure comes this
little bolt of dynamite. Incredibly aggressive and a real manipulator.
He would come into every situation and size up who
(07:13):
had the power, like who he had to win over.
He wasn't destructive of property, but he was very rebellious,
and I think he got into some fights at school.
We got a phone call one time telling us that
Christian had spit in another student's face on the school bus.
While Christian was at the farm, Loving said Marlin called frequently,
(07:34):
although he could not recall that he visited much as
I love Bud Brando's nickname. In certain ways, he was
kind of an incompetent father. The nature of his position
and his own personal stresses made it very, very difficult
for him to be a father. The life he went
through the number of women. There was no constancy there.
(07:54):
I think that kid was totally deprived of any stability.
Kosh Pi, on parental probation for drug and alcohol use,
did not visit either, but she spoke to Christian on
the phone once a week. At the end of six months,
when Christian went back to California, he was noticeably calmer,
but the conflicts between his parents continued. In October nineteen
(08:16):
sixty five, Anna was once again awarded custody. Presumably the
court had been impressed by her best behavior during her
time on probation. In contrast to Marlin's who still have
mistress's wives, girlfriends, and more and more new children, Koshfee
herself seemed to have stabilized, and in October nineteen sixty five,
at the couple's next hearing, she regained full custody of Christian.
(08:40):
Anna Koshfee said in a magazine interview. When Judge Rittenband
gave dev to his father, mister Brand was unable to
take care of him, so he sent Devy to live
with his aunt in the Middle West. Devy was so
miserable he came back with a mental block so that
he couldn't read or write. I had to work with
him very hard to get him over this. Christian, then six,
(09:02):
was again caught in the cross fire of his parents war.
At three, he had been enrolled in a Montessori school,
but in his second year he was pulled out, shuttled
back and forth between Mulholland and Anna's rented bungalow on
the flats below. Cared for by a succession of nanny's
maids and baby sitters, he had been left disoriented and confused.
(09:23):
We all saw what a terrible situation it had become,
said Marlin's elder sister, Joscelyn. Anna was always flying into
temper tantrums and firing the latest nanny. It had gotten
to the point where Christian never looked at anybody's face.
He just went to the person wearing a white dress
if he needed something. After losing the custody, Marlon Brando
(09:43):
accused Judge Scott of courting publicity and pandering to the press,
calling the decision barbarous. Koshfee he invaded was cruel and
violent and dependent on drugs. To close friends and relatives,
like Fran who had been at his side in court,
his pain at losing Christian was palpable. Brando himself was
(10:03):
now aware that his firstborn son was nervous, insecure, and
scared the end
Christian Devy has survived two decades of sensational conflict between
his parents, but the event that took its toll on
Christian until his death. One night, Anna took an overdose
of sleeping pills, trying to commit suicide, or she simply
overestimated her tolerance. In any case, she collapsed on the
floor in a heap. Christian picked up the phone and
(00:23):
managed to tell the operator that his mommy was sick.
Moments later, police and paramedics arrived at Anna's house on
Tiger Tale Road in Brentwood. The copse called Marlon Brando,
who rushed over and took Christian to his home on
Mulholland Drive. Marlin's recollection is recorded in a declaration filed
the same day. At or about two a m. Of
(00:44):
the morning of December seventh, I received an emergency phone
call from the Los Angeles Police Department. They were calling
from Miss Cashfee's home. I was told that my six
and a half year old boy was unable to arouse
his mother, who has been unconscious. The boy called the operator,
who called the police. The police came to the house
(01:04):
and found Miss Koshfi comatose and Christian alone with his mother.
I then immediately went to Miss Koshfee's house and discovered
that she had been taken to the emergency ward of
the UCLA Medical Center suffering from an overdose of barbiturates.
I was further advised at UCLA Medical Center that the
medical findings showed that she had taken four mgs of
(01:24):
a short acting barbiturate, a very dangerous dosage. When I
arrived at her house, there were empty bottles thrown on
the floor, and my son had had nothing to eat
all day. He was frightened, hungry, and uncared for. I
took the boy to my house when I left for
work that morning. He was still highly upset, nervous, and agitated,
(01:47):
and had been unable to sleep all night. My secretary,
Alice Marchik, and my maid remained at home with Christian.
At about one p m that date, and while I
was at work, Miss Koshfee in assisted and obtained her
release from the hospital, broke through the gate and fence
around my house, broke into the house, assaulted and struck
my secretary through a table through the plate glass window,
(02:10):
and ran off with our son. Christian was crying and
screaming with fright I have discovered that Miss Koshfee has
kept a loaded revolver at her home, and she carried
it around and played with it while she was under
the influence of barbiturates and intoxicants. My son's safety and
welfare are in extreme and immediate danger. The child is
(02:31):
in a terrible distraught state. Miss Koshfee is incapable of
taking care of his needs and welfare. Marlin filed a
report at a North Hollywood police station accusing me of
malicious mischief. Then at the Santa Monica court House, he
submitted his declaration. Temporary custody of Devy was granted by
Judge Edward Brand, thereby igniting yet more violent explosions. That
(02:54):
same day, armed with his court order, Marlin drove directly
to my home in Brentwood, accompanied by his lawyer and
two private detectives. No one answered the doorbell. Anna had
taken Devy to a nearby hotel to thwart just such
an attempted countercoup. Anna was in the bedroom of the
hotel suite, clothed in a nightgown and Payne Noir preparing
(03:15):
to retire. Devy was in the front room. Despite the
earlier confrontation at Marlon's house. He was now calm and
had finished his supper. She heard scuffling noises as I
left the bathroom and rushed through the doorway. Devy was gone.
The front door open. She glimpsed Marlon and several police
officers dragging Christian down the corridor. The headline in the
(03:38):
Herald Examiner screamed Nightie rampage Jail's Brando's X, a two
column article on the front page began bruised, barefoot and belligerent.
Actress Anakoshfi thirty bailed out of jail early today after
allegedly slugging two police officers in a twenty four hour
bout of violence with her ex husband, actor Marlon Brando
(03:59):
over custody of their six year old son. At the
end of the required six months stay, the boy returned
to California noticeably calmer and less disturbed, although he apparently
made up a story of the lovings, burying an effigy
of Koshfee while telling the boy, your mother is wicked.
She has to be buried deep down, an event that,
on the face of it, seemed highly unlikely because of
(04:21):
Anna's admitted alcohol and drug abuse. Marlon was awarded temporary
custody of Christian in December nineteen sixty four. When the
papers were served, Koshfee went on a rampage, slapped three people,
and was arrested for assault. She later admitted to having
taken barbiturates in a suicide attempt, and it was ruled
that she could see her son only in the presence
(04:43):
of an attorney. Don Crutchfield was hired during the wild
and acrimonious divorce of Marlon Brando and Anna Koshfee. Christian
was six then. Crutchfield said it was his job to
protect the boy from being grabbed by Koshfee and taken
out of the country Christian Brando, he says, he was
the first celebrity kit I handled. He was my little
(05:06):
boy for six months. I took his hand and was
with him everywhere. Though Marlin and Cashfee fought to ger him.
Each would leave Christian in the care of a succession
of nanny's nurses, secretaries and schools, or on his own.
Let me be more precise, the boy had a mother
who was certifiable and a father who was almost always
(05:26):
somewhere else, whether physically or emotionally. I wasn't getting paid
for parenting, but you just couldn't help feeling for this
emotionally wounded kid. So there I was living in Marlon
Brando's house with complete charge of his son, which lasted
for a few months. Dot I will always think of
Christian as a little kid. There was a lot of
love between us, Crutchfield says, going through old papers to
(05:50):
find stories about himself. I helped him with his homework
and taught him manners. It's heart breaking to see what
happens to these kids. Crutchfield says, I can divorce myself
from cases, but not from them. I'd have given my
life for Christian. Now he's just walking dead. It happens,
(06:10):
he says, the children of celebrities find themselves second to
their parents careers. They craved the love that's never there.
When he was a little kid, Christian always looked a
little like a wounded deer. Crutchfield says, there was a
lot of hurt in his eyes. I saw that same
look when he was in court for murder. In February
(06:32):
nineteen sixty five, a judge in Santa Monica ordered that
Christian be put in the care of Marlin's sister Francis
for a six month cooling off period. Fran, an elementary
school teacher, and her then husband, artist Dick Loving, brought
Christian to the brand Of family farm in Mondeline, Illinois,
where they lived with their three young daughters. Christian was
(06:52):
about seven years old and an absolutely wild child. Dick
Loving remembered, like Marlin, Fran and I thought of the
farm as a sort of haven. We were low key
living in the country, and into this structure comes this
little bolt of dynamite. Incredibly aggressive and a real manipulator.
He would come into every situation and size up who
(07:13):
had the power, like who he had to win over.
He wasn't destructive of property, but he was very rebellious,
and I think he got into some fights at school.
We got a phone call one time telling us that
Christian had spit in another student's face on the school bus.
While Christian was at the farm, Loving said Marlin called frequently,
(07:34):
although he could not recall that he visited much as
I love Bud Brando's nickname. In certain ways, he was
kind of an incompetent father. The nature of his position
and his own personal stresses made it very, very difficult
for him to be a father. The life he went
through the number of women. There was no constancy there.
(07:54):
I think that kid was totally deprived of any stability.
Kosh Pi, on parental probation for drug and alcohol use,
did not visit either, but she spoke to Christian on
the phone once a week. At the end of six months,
when Christian went back to California, he was noticeably calmer,
but the conflicts between his parents continued. In October nineteen
(08:16):
sixty five, Anna was once again awarded custody. Presumably the
court had been impressed by her best behavior during her
time on probation. In contrast to Marlin's who still have
mistress's wives, girlfriends, and more and more new children, Koshfee
herself seemed to have stabilized, and in October nineteen sixty five,
at the couple's next hearing, she regained full custody of Christian.
(08:40):
Anna Koshfee said in a magazine interview. When Judge Rittenband
gave dev to his father, mister Brand was unable to
take care of him, so he sent Devy to live
with his aunt in the Middle West. Devy was so
miserable he came back with a mental block so that
he couldn't read or write. I had to work with
him very hard to get him over this. Christian, then six,
(09:02):
was again caught in the cross fire of his parents war.
At three, he had been enrolled in a Montessori school,
but in his second year he was pulled out, shuttled
back and forth between Mulholland and Anna's rented bungalow on
the flats below. Cared for by a succession of nanny's
maids and baby sitters, he had been left disoriented and confused.
(09:23):
We all saw what a terrible situation it had become,
said Marlin's elder sister, Joscelyn. Anna was always flying into
temper tantrums and firing the latest nanny. It had gotten
to the point where Christian never looked at anybody's face.
He just went to the person wearing a white dress
if he needed something. After losing the custody, Marlon Brando
(09:43):
accused Judge Scott of courting publicity and pandering to the press,
calling the decision barbarous. Koshfee he invaded was cruel and
violent and dependent on drugs. To close friends and relatives,
like Fran who had been at his side in court,
his pain at losing Christian was palpable. Brando himself was
(10:03):
now aware that his firstborn son was nervous, insecure, and
scared the end
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