Not long into their marriage, his behavior grew more erratic. My dad had a dangerous side too, and I think Mom liked that, the whole outlaw mystique. The newspaper article on this blog is the very same one that my father stumbled upon to find the Cabstand job that started his segway into the mafia life. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. Her roommate ran into him in town. She once told me a story about how, after theyd been dating for a couple of months, this boy from her neighborhood, Ted, someone shed known her whole life, took her for a ride in his Corvette one afternoon and made a pass at her. He started betting on Kentucky horses. I said, You know, I hope thats not a red flag, but theres something kind of creepy about him, Vivian later shared. Goodfellas saw Henry Hill doing all types of criminal activities, but one his mob boss, Paul Cicero, wasn't on board with was drug trafficking - and here's why. In an attempt to keep their true identities hidden from everyone around them, the family changed their names - with Hill becoming Martin Lewis, a name that he borrowed from two of his favorite actors, Hollywood heartthrob Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis. Over the next couple of years, they moved six times out to Kew Gardens, back in with my grandparents, out to Forest Hills, back to Valley Stream. Karen found this incident so insulting that she angrily slapped him. Henry Rafferty, 22, from Hartlepool, Cleveland, died after he was struck by a car while sleeping on the driveway of a house in the town following a night out with friends. At the end of the movie Goodfellas, in which Henry Hill was portrayed by handsome actor Ray Liotta, Hill is in the Witness Protection Program in an unnamed locale, which looked like some out-of-the-way place called something like Hicksville so unlike where Hill committed endless crimes (New York City) and enjoyed being one of the Wiseguys (the book about Hills life was actually named Wiseguys but was changed to Goodfellas for the movie.). In recent times however he ventured out in public more opening a restaurant called Wiseguys, launching his own brand of spaghetti sauce and appearing on US TV talking about gangster movies. 'My attempt at bigamy was a complete failure. Hill was sent to prison. He started groping her in the front seat and my mom told him to stop but he didnt so she slapped him. Ted was taken aback by Karen's behavior, and he gave up the attempt to force her. Aside from betting at the tracks, he started operating a horse-drawn trolley tour of Cincinnati (making sure to show his passengers the fountain featured in the opening credits of WKRP in Cincinnati). And again, Sherry escaped. In the fall of 1981, Hill walked into El Toreador, his favorite spot where he found both of his vices in one package. Hill even managed to swindle the governor of the state he was hiding in: John Y. I am a Teacher who started creating online content for my students from 2016 so that they can get access to free knowledge online. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. But she had her own anger to unleash. The driver looked a few years older than her, weathered but attractive. When I was older, my mom told me that that was part of what attracted her to my dad the glitz, the way he could get them a front-row table at the Empire Club or the Copacabana, the way he seemed to know everyone and everyone knew him. I dont know how long wed lived there before my mom told me Dad was leaving. Their lives were far from normal. Karen and Henry's daughter Gina later described her mother's account of the aftermath of the Ted incident in the memoir On the Run: A Mafia Childhood: "My mom called my dad and he picked her up and drove her home, but instead of going into the house with her, he went across the street. Suddenly, a man who never knew life outside of the mob, was walking the streets as one of us. Throughout his time spent working for the infamous Lucchese crime family, Hill, who wed his first wife Karen in 1965, was known to have had multiple mistresses. His fights with Sherry (Im not your maid or your mommy!) were followed by make-up sex. Through the 1970s, the Hill family was involved in organized crime, through which they became very wealthy and lived extravagantly. In On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill. Sherry and her roommate were seated at a table in the Mexican restaurant. Sherry would lie to herself it was the stress of a new relationship, thats all. Her friend Vivian Walsh, who owned the salon Sherry worked in, had a bad feeling about Martin from the moment he walked into the salon to visit Sherry. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. In the late sixties and early seventies, when he had a wife and two young kids at home, my father was a full-time criminal. He ran up huge bogus tabs at his own restaurant, The Suite, on stolen credit cards. Apparently, he had a thing for pistol-whipping. We got hit pretty hard, and we all got hurt pretty badly Gina was thrown through the windshield, and I was pinned under the dashboard. When Sherry came home from work that day, the man she was hiding from the man who threatened to have her killed was sitting in her living room. Sherry threw all my clothes out of her second-story bedroom window right into a pile of snow. His notorious smile kept the girls from asking any further questions. He torched a few buildings. Hed been running with mobsters for more than half his life, since he was eleven years old and started cutting school to hang out at Uncle Paulies cabstand in the Brownsville East section of Brooklyn. And she did it with style, too, riding her horses in heels and white clothes. On her way home, Sherry mulled over what she had just discovered a massive blow to the bubble she was (sort of) living in. Henry immigrated to Gloucester county, Virginia, where, in 1651, he married Susan Ann Newman, born in 1630, in Blackburn, Lancashire England, a daughter of Reverend Thomas Newman She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. The comments below have not been moderated, By But nobody got hurt, and those bastards just kept coming after him until they convicted him of something.. Although he had converted to Judaism for Karen, he was a born Catholic. I feel so guilty at my life. One day, he even showed up to El Toreador in a T-shirt with the words Witness Protection Program on it. After Karen kicked out her husband for good and got a divorce, Gina Scott went back to New York City and attended New York University. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent adventures. As a host and someone who has been in that world, Tony Delvecchio wont let Henry Hill off the hook so easy. Easy money wasnt the only thing that wet his whistle. The Hills werent given a choice of where to live, so they ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Just a few years, she said, like a few years was a long weekend. It is not known where she is now. Log In. When Sherry was turning to Karen for support, she let slip the fact that a private eye had been investigating her for months. Sherry, who was paranoid about the whole situation, started sleeping with a gun under her pillow just as Hill had when he first entered Witness Protection. However, we are getting this story from two people closest to Henry Hill: his son and his daughter, so we know it must be the awful truth. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. All I knew was that my father was in trouble, and I resented him for it. When Hill showed up to find all of his stuff buried under snow, he raised all hell. Youre too good for me, he told her one night, drunk. She usually fell back on a gambling charge if she got specific at all. Unlike his father, Gregg adored and took special care of his children. She was born in New York and raised in the Five Towns area of . Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. While Tony wasnt a member of any crime family, he refused to turn states evidence on any of his friends and associates, even when staring jail time square in the face. When Hill came under federal protection, his wife, Karen, and their two children did too. When Karen found out her husband was a bigamist, Hill gave her this incredible excuse; Dont worry; it means nothing. My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. He told others that he was an insurance investigator for arson cases (completely fake, but he had some experience with torching places down). For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. I was never so scared in my life, Sherry later recalled. Hill is a design-build firm offering full multi-discipline design, construction and construction administrative services based in Jacksonville, Florida. Charlie Lankston For Dailymail.com, said, "You know, I hope that's not a red flag, but there's something kind of creepy about him. I looked around the apartment. But I wasnt in a laughing mood. No one asked why it was so urgent for him to leave the country. All the while, Anders was blissfully unaware that her new husband was leading a double life and had another wife and two children of his own at home. But there would always be at least one nice old lady whod say, Oh, how cute, and give us cookies and milk. I wondered how long it would be before I could wrap my arms around his neck and feel the smooth leather of his blazer or smell his Paco Rabanne cologne lingering in the apartment after he left to go to The Suite. When my parents first got married, in 1965, they lived with my grandparents, my moms parents, in Valley Stream, on Long Island. The two women who were married to the same man talked. That gangster, shed say, only shed spit out the words. It was during his relationship with Anders that Hill began working on his book Wiseguys - whichwould inspire the 1990 Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas in which he was played by Liotta alongside Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci. For a while, the four of them were like two pairs in a pod. I don't think it lasted more than a month, and it brought about an ugly breakup. Maybe it was because we were so young, but my mother always told us that my father wasnt a real criminal. My father was one of them. It got to the point where one day, Hills wife picked up the phone and received a blunt warning: Tell Marty hes dead.. He immediately answered: Kris Gregory Cowin. The two met at a diner in Everett, Washington. Daughter of Henry Hill. With each move, came new identities. This time, the family was placed in Redmond, Washington, and right off the bat, Hill spoke to an acquaintance in Kentucky asking him to ship one of the horses he had bought for his daughter to him, the one named Banana Split. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". My dad was always buying me dolls. I just married him. But Karen repeated herself: No, hes my husband. Thats when Sherry said, We need to talk. Sherry followed the car to the familys ranch-style home. The journal entry on this blog is one that my father wrote in his personal journal. It's cable reimagined No. Soon enough, Sherry received a phone call. The real Henry Hill talking to Karen Hill, Karen and Henry Hills children Gregg and Gina Hill, Karen Hills Portrayal in Goodfellas Movie, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. And here comes my second wife, he bragged when she walked up to him. She knew nothing about who Martin Lewis really was about his double life, his wife and two teenage kids. My father thought it was funny, eating at Godfathers Pizza, and maybe it was funny, Gregg wrote. They started double dating (with Vivian and her husband) and Hill always made an impression with his 100-dollar tips. He was on a mission to apologize to all those whom he had wronged in his life. Associated Press. It was magic, Sherry recalled. The Feds also changed the familys last name again: this time to Scott. This is Henry Hill. She told the voice on the phone, No you arent. She has two sisters, Ellen and Cheryl. My head hurt so bad I didnt care how I looked to anyone driving by. Theyre not going to miss this little hairdresser from Bellevue, theyre going to come in and blow you away, he told her. Pistol-whipped him! Goodfellas, which is seen by many as the movie that shot Liotta to stardom, ends with Hill being taken into witness protection, a seemingly perfect Hollywood ending. What was once a general underlying anxiety was now full-fledged panic. As usual, Hill was drunk. The guards made her take everything out and then they searched the bag with a baton and a miniature flashlight. Hill had already beenarrested for getting into a fight with a presumed mistress when they were hidden inIndependence, Kentucky. The man was flirting with disaster. On the way home in a blinding snowstorm, the wheels slipped on a curve and threw the Duster into a spin, bouncing one side off the guardrail, then whipping around so the other side smashed it too. They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. She suffered a miscarriage; likely due to the incredible amount of stress she was under. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. For example, there is a scene where a neighbor named Ted tried to force himself on Karen when she was dating Henry. The next day, Michael was fired. Hill was now going by the name Martin Lewis. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. On the first night in their new home, the senior Hill, instead of playing it low-key, took his family to Godfathers Pizza and proceed to get drunk and unruly. Still, under the creepiness there was something magnetic about Sherrys new beau. Her neighbor, an older man named Corkie, let Sherry and her son hide in his cabin in the woods on Lake Crescent. They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. She found him at the bar next door. Nobody said anything to him, Gregg wrote. Hill grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he admired local mafiosi, including Paul Vario, a capo in the Luchesse crime family. Kaylen Martin would frequently get into her old Ford Pinto and drive, just to get away from it all. Henry Hill died in 2012 of natural causes. Read an excerpt. Sherry was a hopeless romantic. If youre wondering if Janet was Hills wife, she wasnt. In April 1981, months before he arrived in Washington and met Anders, Hill had been arrested for getting into a fight with a woman he was thought to have been having an affair with while living in Kentucky. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". She was in her mid-twenties and said her name was Janet. Nick was around so often that he struck up a romance with Samantha, the roommate. With Janets help, Sherry sued Hill for compensation of the money he siphoned off from her when they were married. Copyright 2004 by Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. You can imagine the look on Hills face when he came home to see both his wives talking at the kitchen table. It always took a little while to get past the guards. Vivian had always been protective of Sherry, who had a knack for choosing the wrong men. Written with Sean Flynn, the siblings tell their story of life with a mobster father and the realities of being in witness protection. Thats who my dad was to me then, a wonderful man who brought me dolls and called me Princess. The day before he went to Lewisburg, the same day my mother was telling my little sister that he was going away for a while, he went out drinking with his friends. Karen Friedman Hill (born January 16, 1946) is an American socialite, known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. Lisa, of Italian-American descent, shared a Malibu home with Hill (who was portrayed . It explained a lot, like how her roommate found a mayonnaise jar filled with a white powdery substance that could only be described as an illegal narcotic. Thats how their life together started, nightclubs and pistol-whippings. Henry Hill, Karen, Gregg, Gina. It was almost as if he had come to believe his own hype, bought into his own scam, convinced himself that, yeah, it was really like a movie.. Hills prediction was right: it was a bestseller. They didnt know that the book would eventually become a classic of true crime literature, called Wiseguy, and that future cinema gold by the name of Goodfellas was being made right under their noses. Reprinted by permission of Warner Books. Our trips to Lewisburg were always miserable. And Hill didnt just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. She hugged me and then left me alone. Therefore, exact details about them are still unavailable. They met up and Hill told her: 'I'll love you forever.'. He was busy, after all, writing a book under contract for Simon & Schuster. Henry worked his way up, became an earner, and proved himself worthy of playing a key role in the notorious heist of Lufthansa Airlines in 1978. I had a few fancy birthday parties after that one clowns, magicians, ponies, the whole thing. But under witness protection, everything changed. After their divorce, he remarried and had another child. He was a fish out of water but wanting to feel like himself, Hill took his family out to dinner on their first evening there at an Omaha-based chain called Godfathers Pizza. Married to a mobster, Karen tried to maintain any form of normalcy in her chaotic life. She recounted how, just seven weeks after they met for the first time, Hill suggested that they 'get married today'. The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. My mom called my dad and he picked her up and drove her home, but instead of going into the house with her, he went across the street. But Hill was still letting himself into Sherrys house at odd hours, one time writing I love you, Sherry Amour, HH on the bathroom mirror in lipstick. That was my dads greatest asset, his charm. The testimony led to 50 convictions and meant that Hill, his wife Karen, and their two children had to be put in the US Marshals Witness Protection Program in 1980. Some of the other thefts were easier: Theyd just walk into a garage and steal the truck, or theyd buy off the driver so hed leave his keys in the cab when he stopped for coffee. Sherry may have been nave, but she was no aggressor. But while their attraction to one another may well have been authentic, it was one of the only aspects of their fiery romance that was. The decision was rash, but so was their whirlwind relationship. But even her most suspicious friends found something appealing about this Martin guy. 'Isaid, "You know, I hope that's not a red flag, but there's something kind of creepy about him."'. What do you mean? GREGG: Wed be up all night, I would be, anyway, riding in the front seat to help my mother stay awake. He still wore his expensive suits and shiny loafers, but he had nowhere to go except to the store for milk. Then my dad came trotting back across the street, all sweaty and red, and gave my mom the gun and told her to hide it. But right to the end, he managed to stay one step ahead of the mafia assassins he long feared. But in reality, Hill's involvement in the criminal underworld did not end when the credits began rolling, cementing Liotta's name in the history books - nor did his repeated infidelity. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. He was arrested again in July of that same year forpassing bad checks. We had it backwards, Girl Scouts asking for cookies, almost like a scam. 00:44 GMT 27 May 2022. Despite being under the supervision of the Feds, Hill became a violent drug addict and began dealing drugs to support his habit. On New Years Eve, he didnt show up for, leaving her crying for hours. So it's cool.'. There were twenty-two hundred men inside, some of the worst criminals in the federal system. The marshals in charge of keeping Hill alive were constantly shaking their heads, but Hill was a tad delusional. The federal penitentiary at Lewisburg was a big beige block with a tower in the center near the front where I could see a guard with a military rifle slung over his shoulder. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood book by Gina Hill True Crime Books > Organized Crime Books ISBN: 1728732247 ISBN13: 9781728732244 The Devil to Pay (Shayne Davies) (Book #1 in the Shayne Davies Series) by Gina Hill and Gregg Hill See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover $5.59 - $6.29 Paperback -- Mass Market Paperback $6.49 - $6.79 Your father did some things he shouldnt have done, is how shed put it. But by this point Anders was pregnant and flatly refused. He wasnt the kind of man they wanted their oldest daughter to end up with, but he could be awfully charming. Hill later did a 180, claiming that Sherry was never pregnant, and they were never even married. The next morning, Karen noticed he wasnt home. When Sherry said no, she got violent again. I think sometimes my grandparents liked my dad in spite of themselves. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. Both were in shock over what they were each hearing. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. Marty was the fun and spontaneous one, and they just wanted to go along for the ride. In 1981, he was arrested for getting into a fight with some woman, and a month later for passing bad checks. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent . He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. Henry Hill was an FBI informant whose life was immortalized by the 1990 movie Goodfellas, where he was played by Ray Liotta. He called her his Sherry Amour (My Cherie Amour) and told her she was the love of his life. Before he could properly get kicked out of Sherrys house, he passed out. Several sources, including Alchetron, say that Karen runs her own business, but that may only be speculation. Yet again, he was saved by the government. It is thought that during the first year Hill and his family spent in witness protection, he continued to enjoy several illicit affairs, all the while continuing his criminal dealings - which forced the FBI to repeatedly move them around to different locations. At least, at first. She said Hill had recently made his peace with his family, but I dont think he ever got over his demons. G.M. Her children released a book in 2004, titled 'On the Run: A Mafia Childhood', which was about their own experience with the Mafia. She knew she had to get out of Redmond her life there was poisoned. See Photos. There was also another reason for why she didnt want to cut the cord Yes, she was pregnant. In the end he died at a hospital . Due to his numerous crimes while in witness protection, the family was expelled from the program in the early 1990s. He and his family were put under witness protection. His first arrest came when he was 16 years old and he carried out the Lufthansa raid after serving a six-year prison sentence in the Seventies. We were living in the Fairview, a luxury high-rise right across the highway from Flushing Meadows, in Queens. And then my mom told me he was going away. But it was about the same time hed bought me Baby Alive, this doll that you could feed pretend baby food and her mouth would move, like she was chewing. See Photos. Lorraine Bracco performed so stunningly as Karen Hill in the movie that she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. So he grew up to be a gangster. According to Henry and Karen's daughter, Gina, in the book On the Run: A Mafia Childhood (via Today), Karen witnessed Henry's dangerous side after an incident with her neighbor. Isnt that special?'. And so, Hill was released on probation. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. Hill went the other way, and Tony takes him to task for it. Gina flew to Florida, and although Justin was already in a foster home, Gina was able to obtain custody. But when he arrived in Washington, Hill was able to wipe his slate clean - or at the very least overhaul the image he was presenting to the world. In 1980 Hill left the life, entered the witness protection program and testified against the mob. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. There was one day when Sherry ran into Karen her fellow survivor and had a chat about their husbands past infidelities. Thats how he always explained it connections. Like the time the pavers showed up with a truckload of asphalt to blacktop my grandmas driveway. As much as she tried to move on, Hill was always in her thoughts; she couldnt get him out of her mind. After their meal, she gave him a ride to Barnes & Noble, where she bought a copy of his recently published Wiseguy Cookbook (a collection of his favorite recipes), which he signed for her: Sherry, You are the love of my life, HH., By the time she finished looking at what he wrote to her in the book she just bought, she looked up to see he was gone. Beyond that was a small courtyard that led to another gate, and another guard would open that one only after the first had been locked, so for a few seconds it was like we were trapped in a cage. See Photos. Still, I knew it was different this time because my mom was crying. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. Sherry had to explain to Samantha who HH was. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. But people stared and then they glared. Her dreams did come true as the film showed her transition from just an ordinary woman to the gangsters wealthy wife. See Photos. People named Gina Hill. Sherry stared at her in disbelief this must be a mistake. Mafia turncoat Henry Hill and his two children are interviewed. Their last night in Vancouver was spent at a Japanese restaurant where the four sipped sake and sat on cushions while Hill flirted with a server in a geisha outfit. In 1980, Hill became an FBI informant, and his testimony helped secure 50 Conviction (s), including those of mob capo (captain) Paul Vario and James . His thriving business made the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer he was seen in a photo with a perm and a fake mustache, clearly trying to escape the photographers frame. 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