Lucy Mancini

Lucy Mancini is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather. She was played by Jeannie Linero in The Godfather Part I.

She was one of the childhood friends of Vito Corleone's children, particularly his daughter, Connie. She was the maid of honor at Connie's wedding. Lucy had sex with Sonny at the wedding, and had a brief extramarital affair with him. After Sonny's death, Lucy was sent to Las Vegas by Vito's consigliere, Tom Hagen, and was given a small share in one of the family's hotel. She was given the share mostly to keep an eye on Vito's middle son, Fredo, who was learning the hotel business.

While her role in Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of the novel was minimal, Lucy was a fairly important supporting character in Puzo's novel, with several chapters dedicated to her story. In the novel, she establishes a whole new life for herself in Las Vegas, and becomes largely independent of the Corleone clan. She is very lonely, however, and occasionally pines for Sonny; while she did not love him or even really know him, she misses him as a lover, and can't achieve sexual satisfaction with anyone else. That changes when she meets, falls in love with, and marries a surgeon, who explains that her difficulty in reaching orgasm can be fixed with a simple vaginal surgery. After he performs the operation, Lucy is finally able to enjoy sex, and the two presumably live happily ever after.

Lucy is only seen in Part I of Coppola's Godfather saga, but she is alluded to in The Godfather Part III as the mother of Sonny's illegitimate child, Vincent, who eventually succeeds Michael Corleone as the head of the Corleone crime family. (In Puzo's novel, she does not become pregnant by Sonny, and it is unknown if she ever has children.)