When Elena’s adoptive sister Victoria snatches Elena’s fiancé Julian Corleone and causes their mother Margaret to fall into a vegetative state, Elena swears bitter revenge. As an investigative reporter, Elena deliberately provokes Victor Corleone, the cold blooded Godfather of New York’s mafia, luring him with calculated tricks until he proposes to her in Sicily. Becoming the Corleone family’s new Godmother, she exposes her identity at Julian and Victoria’s lavish wedding, forcing the humiliated pair to move into the family manor. Elena torments the couple day by day. Desperate, Victoria colludes with Martina, a wealthy socialite obsessed with Victor, to publicly disgrace Elena at an elite ladies’ gala. Nevertheless, Elena uncovers Martina’s charity laundering scam. Though Victor has long known Elena marries him solely for revenge and that she secretly takes birth control pills, he does not kill her. He banishes Julian and Victoria to Siberian coal mines and grants Elena power to jointly govern the Corleone criminal empire.
