Michael and Apollonia: a Tragic love at first sight However, their happiness is short-lived. Shortly after their wedding, Apollonia is killed in a car bomb meant for Michael. This devastates Michael, and he becomes even more ruthless and determined to seek revenge on his enemies.
His wife, Apollonia, disappeared from the Corleone family because Fabrizio, Michael's bodyguard, being hired by Barzini, put a car bomb in the vehicle Michael was going to use to move to a different part of Sicily, but his young, new wife decided to drive the bomb-laden car to the door to pick Michael up and was blown ...
After Michael is notified of Sonny's murder, he and Apollonia prepare to move to Siracusa, but she is killed by a car bomb meant for Michael, proving the other Mafia families know where he is hiding.
Michael has become a true Corleone (embracing both Italian culture and mob affiliation), and his marriage to Apollonia signifies Michael's official acceptance of this change and what it means for his future. When Michael marries Apollonia, he is wedding himself not just to her, but to Sicily and his father's values.
They would have been married for almost a year. She would have been pregnant with his child and would have learned how to drive. Sadly once she was killed, Michael was never the same after that.
Why Did Fabrizio Betray Michael Corleone? Did Michael Get Revenge?
Does Michael get revenge for Apollonia?
After Michael and Kay are dancing in the communion party, we see Fabrizio ("Fred Vincent"), leaving his pizzeria in Buffalo, New York, and starting his car, at which point a previously planted car bomb explodes. He stumbles out of the car, then dies. This was Michael's vengeance upon Fabrizio for killing Apollonia.
The Godfather's Michael Corleone may have loved many things, but his first wife Apollonia wasn't one of them. The pair were wed in Sicily in the mid-stages of the groundbreaking 1972 Francis Ford Coppola film, not long after Michael took refuge there after murdering police captain McCluskey and Virgil Sollozzo.
Despite initially maintaining a loving marriage with Kay, he never informs her, feeling regretful and guilty over his past marriage. In the books, Apollonia is never thought about after her death by Michael, only in the movie "The Godfather iii", does Michael have a flashback about her.
He then flees to Sicily, where he falls in love with Simonetta Stefanelli's Apollonia. Tragically, she's later killed in a car bomb planted by Michael's bodyguard Fabrizio (Angelo Infanti), who betrayed him to his enemies. While Michael gets revenge on those who ordered the hit, Fabrizio is never seen again.
An interesting side note is that there is no indication in the novel or the first and second movies that Michael or anyone ever tells Kay that Michael had been married in Sicily let alone how his first wife died.
Al just confirmed that Michael pretty much fell in love with Kay when he met her and he still loved her even during his first marriage and that Michael loves her even after she aborted his male heir and they separated for a long time.
When Hagen's longtime mistress, Judy Buchanan, is murdered by thugs working for Don Carlo Tramonti, Hagen becomes a person of interest in the investigation, though he is later cleared of the charges. In August 1964, Geraci kidnaps Hagen and drowns him in the Florida Everglades.
While in Havana negotiating with Roth, Michael discovers that Fredo is the family traitor behind the assassination attempt on him. After telling Michael that he has never met Ola, Fredo later carelessly tells Geary that he had been to a nightclub with Ola.
The third and final film in the Godfather saga, The Godfather: Part III, set in 1979, explains that Hagen had died a few years earlier. His son, Andrew, is ordained to the priesthood, and is assigned to the Vatican on Michael's recommendation. While talking with Andrew, Michael remembers Hagen fondly as a great lawyer.
She and Michael fell in love after meeting in Hanover in 1945. Though Kay and Michael believed their relationship to be a secret, Kay's concerned parents had read some of her mail and discovered the truth, but did not disapprove of the relationship.
Kay was more than just business. She was his connection to home, his humanity and his dreams. He had to be a better man with her...and Michael wanted to believe he was a better man.
Mary watched her brother Anthony perform the lead role in Cavalleria rusticana in Palermo, Sicily, after which, she pleaded with her father to allow her to see Vincent. Shortly after, she was accidentally killed after being shot in the chest by the assassin Mosca of Montelepre, who had been trying to kill Michael.
By The Godfather Part II, Kay has decided that Michael is a cold, distant, inattentive husband and father, but only after an attempt is made on his life in the family home does she resolve to rebel against him. At first, Kay's rebellion is silent and private: she aborts the child she is carrying.
Of course Michael had good reasons to lie. The biggest was to protect Kay. What Kay did not know could not hurt her. Because Michael left her out of the Family business, nobody had reason to kidnap her or toture her to extract information.
At the end of GF1 Kay understands that Michael had Carlo and the other family heads killed. She stays with him because inspite of all this she knows he loves her and will be a good provider and family man and he also promises to legitimize the family within five years.
During his stay in Sicily, Michael married a local girl named Apollonia Vitelli (Simonetta Stefanelli) and, after her death, he returned to America where he married Kay Adams (Diane Keaton). He and Kay went on to have two children, Anthony (Anthony Gounaris, James Gounaris, and Franc D'Ambrosio) and Mary.
Despite this, the two of them maintained a loving relationship in 40 years of marriage, and Vito never sought a mistress or ever found the need to strike his wife. Carmela diligently managed the household in times of both peace and trouble, knowing the schemes of her sons and the nature of husband's associates.
At the same time, he persuades his father that it is time to begin to remove the family from organized crime. He reunites with Kay and marries her a year later, promising to make the Corleone family legitimate within five years. They have two children, Anthony and Mary.
