How plausible is it that Michael could easily give 700 million to Archibishop Gilday in The Godfather Part III? This suggests that by 1979 he must have been a multi-billionaire. We are to believe he made all this money with the hotels he owned in Las Vegas.

However, in Part II, it's implied that Michael didn't directly owned his hotels as he needed front man to run them for him. The Chicago Outfit also controlled many hotels from the 1950s to the 1980s and made millions of dollars, maybe even hundreds of millions, but billions?

Although this situation could have changed over the years when he became more and more a legitimate businessman, could he really have made billions of dollars as an hotel entrepreneur/gambling czar?

I believe the righest gangsters probably had a couple of hundred million as personal wealth. But I'm not sure there was one that was in fact a multi-billionaire like Michael Corleone.

You're thoughts?

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