- Billy Van Arsdale
William Brester 'Billy' Van Arsdale III is a fictional character in
Mark Winegardner 's novel "The Godfather Returns ".In the novel
Billy Van Arsdale is born in
New York in 1935. His family makes a fortune selling citrus juice for many businessmen, includingVito Corleone . He meets Vito Corleone's granddaughter, Santino Corleone's daughter, Francesca, in college in 1955; they are married a couple of years later after Francesca becomes pregnant after a rendezvous after Billy has gone to graduate school, and she gives birth to William Brewster Van Arsdale IV, whom they call 'Sonny' Shortly after it is revealed that he has secretly been collecting evidence against the Corleone Family.By 1961, he begins an affair with one of
Danny Shea 's secretaries. Francesca never knows about this and thinks he would not have sex with her because she ispregnant . By early 1962, Francesca learns of her husband's infidelity and spying against her family. Distraught, she follows him in his own car one night and hits him, literally cutting him in half.Van Arsdale's mistress is eventually convicted of
second-degree murder for his death.
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