Corleone toasts mobster wedding without godfather

WHEN Don Corleone’s daughter got married in the film, The Godfather, the guests kissed his hand and he dispensed favours because no Sicilian Mafia boss could refuse a request on the day of his daughter’s wedding.

However, when the real thing took place in Corleone, the Sicilian hill town made famous by the movie, the Mafia’s former “boss of bosses”, Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina, could only read about it in newspapers yesterday from inside prison.

Lucia Riina, his 28-year-old daughter, was married on Wednesday and, in the absence of her father, given away by her brother, Giuseppe.