Michael Corleone Blanco has remained a regular figure in the media in the years since his mother’s death, with his lurid tales of her crimes and the tragedy of his peripatetic upbringing making good tabloid fodder. In 2024 around the release of Netflix’s “Griselda,” Michael was in the news again, only this time he wasn’t exactly seeking the limelight.
As NBC Miami reports, Michael has attempted to sue the makers of the show for a sum in excess of $50,000 for their unauthorized use of his family’s story. In 2020 he told The Mirror: “My mother was no saint … She had to survive to do her thing. But at the end of the day, she was my mother. I will forever honor and respect her. I love her.” The suit also claims that Michael met with producers to discuss being a paid consultant on the show, but that while no agreement was made, details he had given them were incorporated into “Griselda” with no remuneration. Michael has written a memoir, “My Mother, The Godmother,” which he says is based on “more than 15 years researching, writing, and reconstructing each of the stories of my life, my family, and my mother, Griselda Blanco.”
