The Corleone family is a fictional Sicilian Mafia family settled in New York City. The family was created by Mario Puzo and appears in his 1969 novel The Godfather. It is said that the Corleone family is inspired by the real-life Borgia family from Renaissance Italy in the late 15th century.
Compared with the real-life Five Families of organized crime, the Corleone family has the most in common with the Bonanno crime family.
Read more about Corleone Family: Early Corleone History, Killing The Turk, The Family Falling Apart, Legitimization, Don Vincent Corleone, Historical Leadership, Corleone Family
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“Connie, all my life I kept trying to go up in society where everything was legal, straight.... But the higher I go the crookeder it becomes. Where the hell does it end?”
—Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
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—Jean Ross Peterson (20th century)