Vito Corleone

""I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.""

- Don Corleone

Don Vito Corleone (born Antonio Corleone) was the head of the Corleone family.

Vito was born in the small New Jesrsey town together with his cousin Nickey. In 1901, Andolini was murdered by a Sicilian Don named Don Cuneo because he refused to pay tribute to him. His older brother, Paolo, swore revenge, but was himself murdered soon after; Paolo's murder was timed with the ultimate insult: during the funeral procession for his father. Eventually, Cuneo's henchmen came to the residence of the Andolinis to take Vito away and have him killed as well. Desperate, Signora Andolini took her son to see the Mafia chieftain herself.

When she went to see Don Cuneo, she begged for forgiveness, but Cuneo refused, reasoning that the younger boy Vito would also seek revenge as an adult. Upon Cuneo's refusal, Signora Andolini put a knife to his throat, allowing her son to escape at the expense of her own life. Later that night, he was smuggled away, fleeing Jersey to seek refuge in French on a cargo ship full of immigrants. Unable to speak English, he was renamed on Ellis Island as Vito Corleone (Thoght his mother was Andolini) when the immigration clerks saw the tag pinned to his clothes labelled "Vito Corleone from Jersey".

Family

 * Carmela Corleone &mdash; Wife
 * Santino 'Sonny' Corleone &mdash; Middle age son
 * Tom Hagen &mdash; Informally adopted son
 * Fredo Corleone &mdash; Eldest son
 * Michael Corleone &mdash; Youngest son
 * Connie Corleone &mdash; Daughter
 * Nicky Corleone &mdash; Distant cousin
 * Frankie Malone &mdash; Adopted granddaughter
 * Marty Malone &mdash; Adopted grandson
 * Sal Tessio &mdash; Adopted cousin (He was adopted by Andolini's)

Gallery
Vito_smells_flower.jpg|Vito smells flower. Vito_and_Coonie.jpg|Vito and his daughter Connie.