TB is right. Colombo and Gotti, for sure. And you can make a case for a little Crazy Joe, too.

The line below was lifted verbatim right out of Jerry Capeci's first Gotti bio, "Mob Star." It supposedly happened between Gotti and Michael Franzese. Just switch John Gotti for Michael Corleone. It was published in 1988, a year before they started filming "Godfather 3."

"If there is some guy running around this city saying, 'Fuck Michael Corleone,' what do we do with a piece of shit like that? He's a fucking dog."

Michael also states, "His picture is on the cover of the New York Times magazine. He gets the Esquire magazine award, for the best-dressed gangster! The newspapers praise him, because, he hires Blacks into his family, which shows he has a good heart. He, is famous. Who knows? Maybe one day, he will make all of you, popular."

Now the New York Times and Esquire references were clearly Gotti references. A Gotti drawing famously made the cover of Time magazine back in 1986. He was wearing a double breasted suit and the article mentioned his reputation as being the "best dressed gangster in Queens."

As for hiring blacks into his family, that could have easily come from one of the Gallos brothers---probably Joe, who grew tight with the black inmates while doing time for extortion.