Was DON CORLEONE real ???

Question

just wondering.....if Don Corleone from GodFather was a real guy....or just fiction.....

Answer 1

After 40 Years, Police Catch the Real Don Corleone

Associated Press

CORLEONE, Italy — Italy’s reputed No. 1 Mafia boss was arrested Tuesday at a farmhouse in the Sicilian countryside after frustrating investigators’ efforts to catch him for more than 40 years on the run, the Interior Ministry said.

Bernardo Provenzano, Italy’s most wanted man, is believed to have taken over the Sicilian Mafia after the 1993 arrest of former boss Salvatore “Toto” Riina in Palermo.

“Bastard! Murderer!” a crowd shouted as black-hooded policemen took the elderly man out of a sedan and rushed him into the courtyard of a police building in Palermo. The gray-haired Provenzano, wearing a windbreaker and tinted glasses, glanced aside at one point but made no audible comment.

A Palermo police spokesman, Agent Daniele Macaluso, said Provenzano had been arrested in the morning near Corleone, the Sicilian town made famous in the “Godfather” movies. He was then driven to Palermo, 37 miles north of Corleone.

He was being questioned by anti-Mafia prosecutors in police offices, but was saying little, answering only questions about his identity, the Italian news agency ANSA reported from Palermo.

Interior Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano described Provenzano as “the most important person from Cosa Nostra” after Riina, the so-called “boss of bosses” — who was also arrested after years as a fugitive. He called the arrest “an important step forward ... for the entire nation.”

Prosecutors describe Provenzano as a man who helped Cosa Nostra increasingly spread its tentacles into the lucrative world of public works contracts in Sicily, turning the Mafia into more of a white-collar industry of illegal activity less dependent on traditional revenue-making operations like drug trafficking and extortion rackets.

Provenzano, on the run since 1963, has proven an elusive target.

Turncoats have told investigators in recent years that he avoided capture for so long by sleeping in different farmhouses across the island every few nights and by giving orders with handwritten notes, not trusting cell phone conversations for fear that they were monitored by police.

Authorities were also hampered in their hunt for him because their last photo of Provenzano dated back nearly 50 years. However, personnel at a clinic in southern France where Provenzano is believed to have been treated for prostate problems under a false name a few years ago helped police to create a new composite sketch.

Italy’s top anti-Mafia prosecutor, Piero Grasso, who for years as Palermo’s chief prosecutor had personally led the hunt for Provenzano, said on RAI radio that he felt “great satisfaction, great emotion” at the arrest.

Answer 2

The Real Don Corleone

Answer 3

Vito Corleone (Born: Vito Andolini), aka 'The Godfather', is the fictional head of one of the five New York Mafia families in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation. Vito Corleone was played by Marlon Brando.

Answer 4

Fiction. Based on real life mobster Bernardo Provenzano (of Corleone Italy). Actually, very loosely based. Mario Puzo created the whole story and only gave personality traits to many of the characters from real persons.

Answer 5

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Was DON CORLEONE real ???
just wondering.....if Don Corleone from GodFather was a real guy....or just fiction.....

Answer 6

Vito Corleone is said to be a composite based on real mafia dons Joseph Bonanno, Frank Costello, and Vito Genovese.

Answer 7

That has got to be my favorite movie of all times!! If you type in your search engine "Godfathers/Italian-american" you can find out a lot of really interesting stuff. The name "Corleone" is ligitimate but the movie is just a movie.

Answer 8

A real character in books and movies, as far as I am aware.

Answer 9

it was just fiction. the writer of the movie was Mario Puzo and the director was Francios Ford Capola. If you want to know more look up these names

Answer 10

It was a movie, a great one. But just a movie...