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Shortly after The Godfather Part II premiered in nineteen seventy-four, a phone call came in for Lee Strasberg, the actor who played Hyman Roth and who had just been nominated for an Academy Award for the performance. The call was from Meyer Lansky — the real man Hyman Roth was based on. He congratulated Strasberg. He said it was a good performance. And then he said five words that tell you everything about the gap between the film and the reality. He said: you could have made me more sympathetic.
The film gives Hyman Roth a bullet at the airport. Reality gave Meyer Lansky a shih tzu named Bruzzer and a quiet death from lung cancer in Miami Beach at age eighty, having beaten the FBI, the IRS, and every federal prosecutor they sent after him for fifty years. He was convicted exactly once across his entire career — two months for illegal gambling in nineteen fifty-three. The FBI believed he had three hundred million dollars hidden in offshore accounts. His estate at the time of his death was modest.
This is the full documented story of Meyer Lansky. Every detail verified. Every comparison to Hyman Roth made explicit. And the specific ways the real man's career was more extraordinary than anything Coppola had time to put on screen.
What you will learn:

Who Meyer Lansky actually was — born Maier Suchowljansky in nineteen oh two in Grodno, Belarus, assigned the birthday July fourth by an immigration official because his parents couldn't remember the date, growing up on the Lower East Side where his first meeting with Lucky Luciano happened when Luciano tried to extort him for protection money and Lansky refused
The Nazi rallies — Judge Nathan Perlman personally asking Lansky to break up German American Bund demonstrations in New York, Lansky's men attending with baseball bats, Lansky refusing payment and saying the Jews in Europe were his brothers
Cuba in its full documented detail — the nineteen thirty-three handshake with Batista, the two hundred and fifty thousand dollar bribe to the sitting Cuban president to step aside for Batista's coup, the nineteen forty-six Havana Conference with Frank Sinatra providing entertainment, the fourteen million dollar Hotel Riviera, and Castro ending it all in one day
The Israel attempt — two years in Herzliya Pituach walking Bruzzer along Tel Aviv streets, the Supreme Court ruling, the American threat to withhold Phantom jets, and the three-day flight through South America country by country with nowhere to land
The phone call to Lee Strasberg and exactly what it reveals about the man versus the character

Verified Sources: Wikipedia: Meyer Lansky, Havana Conference, Bugs and Meyer Mob; Britannica; Cigar Aficionado; National Library of Israel; Jewish Press; Brandeis University; All That's Interesting; Biography.com; IMDb; Robert Lacey Little Man
Subscribe and comment: which ending is more fitting for Lansky — the bullet at the airport or the dog walk in Miami Beach?