In the mid-1980s, Mr Al Pacino was dating Diane Keaton when she found out he was single. The Godfather was a huge commercial success, but the actor was paid just $35,000 for the film.

“When I finished filming The Godfather, I was single, not that I ever had any money, but now I owed money.”he himself writes in his book. “The manager and agents took their share of my salary, while I had to live on Jill Clayburgh’s support.”

Also, the actor was not working much during this period, appearing in only five films during the 1980s. “I had about ninety thousand in the bank and that was it”writes the 84-year-old actor in his new memoir, “Sonny Boy.”

“I had my house in the countryside, which I didn’t want to leave. I was spending and not earning. I was giving but not bringing money.” And he continues: “I could say I was taken advantage of. I could blame my accountants. I could blame my manager, Mary Bregman. I could blame myself, but then I would also have to take responsibility for my own actions.”

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The actor is particularly candid about his relationship with money. “I didn’t understand how money works,” he admits, “just like I didn’t understand how a career works. It was a language I just didn’t speak.”

Keaton encouraged Pacino to start acting again and his first project was ‘Sea of ​​Love’. The 1989 crime thriller starring Ellen Barkin was a critical success. It was also Pacino’s first film since 1985’s Revolution. He didn’t make much money from that film either.

Al Pacino

The Italian-American Alfredo James Pacino was born in 1940 in Manhattan, New York. His nickname was ‘Sonny Boy’, as is the title of his book. Sonny Boy was the title of a song by the actor and singer Al Jolson, which Pacino imitated when he was three years old. His parents divorced, his father left for California, and little Al moved in with his mother Rose, in her parents’ house, in the Bronx.

His grandfather, who was Italian from the Sicilian village of Corleone, played a large role in his upbringing and together with his mother, who often took him to the movies, strongly supported his desire to become an actor. His family was poor and, as he himself has said, his mother did not live to experience his recognition, for which she would have been very happy… The 84-year-old actor has a son, Roman, with producer Noor Alfallah. He is also father to Julie, 34, with Jan Tarrant, and twins Anton and Olivia, 23, with actress Beverly D’Angelo.

Al Pacino soon accepted an offer to reprise the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, and although he struggled for the role, money played a role here as well. “I was single. Francis Ford Coppola, the director, was single. We both needed the bread”he writes himself.

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The ‘Serpico’ star lists some of his expenses: he paid for 16 cars, 23 cell phones and a gardener who made $400,000 a year!

“I wasn’t even signing my own checks. The accountant would sign them and I would let them go. I wasn’t looking and it wasn’t telling me how much money I had or where it was going and I wasn’t watching who was getting what.” Finally, the actor confesses that some of his later projects were made purely for the money and were not very good.

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“Jack and Jill” was the first film I made after I lost my money. To be honest, I did it because I had nothing else. Adam Sandler wanted me and they paid me a lot for it… I love Adam, he’s been great to work with and he’s become a good friend.”

Now that he’s grown up, the Oscar-winning actor says he needs to think very seriously about what to do with his fortune. “That means I have to get advice from people who are a lot smarter than me.”