I suspect that the children of movie stars are just looked upon as fresh meat and are not often protected by their parents.
These scenes take place in Hollywood. The Godfather has sent Tom Hagen out to offer Jack Woltz anything he wants if he'll put Johnny Fontane in his new movie.
His analysis proved correct. Woltz kept him waiting for a half hour past the appointed time. Hagen didn't mind. The reception room was very plush, very comfortable, and on a plum-colored couch opposite him sat the most beautiful child Hagen had ever seen. She was no more than eleven or twelve, dressed in a very expensive but simple way as a grown woman. She had incredibly golden hair, huge deep sea-blue eyes, and a fresh raspberry-red mouth. She was guarded by a woman obviously her mother, who tried to stare Hagen down with a cold arrogance that made him want to punch her in the face. The angel child and the dragon mother, Hagen thought, returning the mother's cold stare.Then, about nine pages later, when Tom Hagen is leaving the Woltz mansion after being given the old heave-ho by Jack Woltz, this:
hile waiting in the floodlit colonade of the mansion for his car, Hagen saw two women about to enter a long limousine already parked in the driveway. They were the beautiful twelve-year-old blond girl and her mother he had seen in Woltz's office that morning. But now the girl's exquisitely cut mouth seemed to have smeared into a thick, pink mass. Her sea-blue eyes were filmed over and when she walked down the steps toward the open car her long legs tottered like a crippled foal's. Her mother supported the child, helping her into the car, hissing commands into her ear. The mother's head turned for a quick furtive look at Haten and he saw in her eyes a burning, hawklike triumph. Then shee too disappeared into the limousine.When I first read this passage back when I was a teenager in 1970 or 1971, I had to re-read it several times to understand it. It was the first time I had ever encountered the concept of child molestation by someone in the movie business. I literally couldn't comprehend what was being said at first. I was fifteen or sixteen at the time.So that was why he hadn't go the plane ride from Los Angeles, Hagen thought. The girl and her mother had made the trip with the movie producer. That had given Woltz enough time to relax before dinner and do the job on the little kid. And Johnny wanted to live in this world? Good luck to him, and good luck to Woltz.