Al Pacino and Diane Keaton played one of Hollywood’s most infamous—and deadly—couples in The Godfather series, but did they date in real life?
Pacino and Keaton starred as Michael Corleone and Kay Adams-Corleone, respectively, in The Godfather and The Godfather II. (Kay was Michael’s girlfriend and later, second wife.)
The movies premiered decades before Keaton’s sudden death on October 11, 2025. She was 79 years old. Keaton passed away in Los Angeles, California, at around 8:08 a.m. PT on October 11, 2025, after the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at her home. While her cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, at the time of writing, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, a close friend of Keaton’s, told People that the actress looked noticeably “thin” in the weeks leading up to her passing. recalled seeing Keaton looking noticeably thin less than a month before her death. “I saw her two or three weeks ago, and she was very thin,” Sager said in an interview with People. “She had lost so much weight.”
Did Diane Keaton and Al Pacino date?
As for Pacino, a friend of the actor told The Daily Mail that Pacino viewed Keaton as the “love of his life.” “Looking back, Al admits the love of his life was Diane who he’s always called, ‘an amazing woman,’” the source said. “I know he will forever regret he didn’t make his move when he had the chance. For years after he and Diane split, Al used to say, if it’s meant to be, it’s never too late for a do-over.’ But sadly, now it is.”
As for why Keaton and Pacino never made it work, the insider claimed it’s because of Pacino’s family, including his four children, who grew up on the east coast. “Al adores all his kids,’ the source said. ‘And although he preferred living in New York, he also purchased a home in Los Angeles just so he could spend more time on the West Coast with his children who lived there,” the source said. “Though he and Diane both lived in Beverly Hills, only a few miles from each other for years, they never spoke.”
The insider continued, “I once asked him why, and he told me, ‘There’s no need to talk with each other. We said everything that needed to be said at the time.’”
Keaton and Pacino dated secretly while filming The Godfather Part II. While they never married, the Daily Mail’s source claimed that the actress would’ve tied the knot with the actor had he proposed. “Diane’s parents were together, but her father was always away on business,” the insider said. “So, he might as well not have been there at all. She loved her mother, who managed the home and raised her four children on her own, and Diane admired her strength and independence.”
Jason Pham
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