Los Angeles, Sept. 24 (Reuters): From a friend who lost a diamond ring down his drain to a small airline that flew guests to his private Tahitian island, would-be creditors are lining up to make claims on Marlon Brando?s estate two months after he died, a lawyer said yesterday.

But family members named as beneficiaries in Brando?s will have kept a united front, with no squabbles breaking out, since probate of his $21.6 million in assets began last month, David Seeley, the attorney representing the estate, said. Probate is the process by which a court distributes the estate of a deceased person.

?At this point in the process, everyone is pulling together and working together to make this as easy as possible in a very difficult time,? Seeley said.

He said at least five or six potential creditors have informed the estate that they intend to file claims, including Tahitian-based Air Moorea and Joan ?Toni? Petrone, a long-time friend who also worked as a personal assistant for many years. ?I suspect there?s going to be a whole lot more than that,? he said.

Seeley confirmed a Los Angeles Times report that Air Moorea was planning to seek roughly $460,000 in business costs that the charter airline claims Brando owed the company for flying tourists to the Tahitian atoll he purchased in 1966.

Meanwhile, Petrone is seeking reimbursement for a $3,000 diamond and platinum ring she lost down the drain while chopping up vegetables over the kitchen sink in his Mulholland Drive home about 10 years ago, Seeley said.

A petition for probate filed by Brando?s estate in July listed private assets worth $3 million and real estate valued at $18.6 million, including his California home and the Tahitian island. The will lists 10 surviving children, ages 46 to 10, and names all as beneficiaries except for his adopted daughter Petra Brando-Corval.