Uncle Paulie let us use his car once, a big cream-colored Lincoln Town Car that rode like it was on a cloud. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. Thats no way for a married man to behave! So my parents moved in and out, depending on how much money they had. In 1955, Hill began to warm up to Paul Vario by running some errands for the mafioso at Vario's meat stores,. Once a migraine started, I was done for the day. For example, there is a scene where a neighbor named Ted tried to force himself on Karen when she was dating Henry. Their lives were far from normal. There would be a guard at the main entrance, an enormous black steel gate, waiting with a massive key, just like in the old movies. We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. It was only a matter of time. Hill alleged that Sherry seduced him and kidnapped him (the word he used was f***-napped). But I definitely remember the Fairview. Eventually, Hill testified against his former associates to avoid a possible execution by his crew or going to prison for his crimes. It was like another country, Henry later said. But she had her own anger to unleash. But then federal prosecutors indicted them for extortion, which they could do because my father had crossed state lines. My dad had a dangerous side too, and I think Mom liked that, the whole outlaw mystique. Henry Hill, Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) was a New York City mobster. I dont know how long wed lived there before my mom told me Dad was leaving. They had a son named Justin, but in 1997, Hill and Dawn, now living in California, became totally out of control with their drug use. So brazen was Hill that he even wore a 'Witness Protection Program' T-shirt while dating Anders. Karen immediately called Henry. Copyright 2004 by Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. In On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill. I was never so scared in my life, Sherry later recalled. 6 Amazon travel essentials for your next getaway, starting at $12. 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. To Sherry, she looked like a young Katharine Hepburn. The events of their life were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. 'Isaid, "You know, I hope that's not a red flag, but there's something kind of creepy about him."'. Read an excerpt. But I wasnt in a laughing mood. 'No, that's Henry Hill who's married,' he told a confidante when told he had committed a 'major crime' by taking a second wife. Sherry had to explain to Samantha who HH was. 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. The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. 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. The driver looked a few years older than her, weathered but attractive. Over the years, he would fly to New York to testify against Paul Vario and Jimmy Burke, his old accomplices. At the same time Hill was being followed by a private investigator called Janet. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. She usually fell back on a gambling charge if she got specific at all. And again, Sherry escaped. Ever since the family came out of the Witness Protection Program due to various criminal activities performed by Henry while still in the program, Karen has not appeared in public much. She was leading an ordinary life at that time and was working at a New York dental office. 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. Watch a rare interview with one of the most famous wiseguys of all time Henry Hill,ofGoodfellas fame. Youre too good for me, he told her one night, drunk. Whereas Hill was doing all the wrong things, Karen went into survival mode. Log In. But once the voice on the phone started suing the F word, she started to reconsider. But eventually, Sherry needed to head back to work to make money. In an interview with CBS News in 2009, Gregg, whose face was disguised, recalled that there was a breaking point where he couldn't take it any more. He ran up huge bogus tabs at his own restaurant, The Suite, on stolen credit cards. Both were in shock over what they were each hearing. When Hill showed up to find all of his stuff buried under snow, he raised all hell. 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. Kaylen Martin would frequently get into her old Ford Pinto and drive, just to get away from it all. She knew something wasnt right. Most girls would have been terrified, but my mom said she thought it was sexy. That was my mom, trying to make something very big sound very small. The two women who were married to the same man talked. Excerpted from "On The Run: A Mafia Childhood." He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". This is one of the menus in my father's restaurant. Hill went the other way, and Tony takes him to task for it. Henry Hill died of a heart attack in 2012 eight years after On the Run was written. Related: Goodfellas True Story: The Real Life Gangster Morrie . In the film, Karen Hill was portrayed as a woman with a sense of rationalizing everything her husband Henry had done. GREGG: Wed be up all night, I would be, anyway, riding in the front seat to help my mother stay awake. Gina also got married and started her own family. And then wed get to the prison. He stole, fenced, bootlegged, loan-sharked, and extorted. Not long into their marriage, his behavior grew more erratic. Karen is believed to be alive and running her own business today. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Back in Washington, Sherry had to get back to work. After hearing about the incident, Henry decided to take revenge. Brains, not beauty, solves cases, Janet would say in interviews. The kid from Brooklyn turned wise guy turned rat, Henry Hill started out running errands for the Lucchese family of mobsters at the age of 11. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. Then one of them would stick a gun in his face. I was the best Mob informant [theyd] ever get, he later boasted. Frankly, On the Run could have been entitled Daddy Dearest. 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. LOS ANGELES - Henry Hill spent much of his life as a "goodfella," believing his last moment would come with a bullet to the back of his head. With Janets help, Sherry sued Hill for compensation of the money he siphoned off from her when they were married. After her marriage with Henry Hill she had two children, Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. Anders said her initial reaction was to say no - insisting that she had to work that day - however her beau of less than two months quickly convinced her otherwise, and they packed up her car and, along with her then-13-year-old son Kris, drove to Virginia City, Nevada, where they tied the knot. Isnt that special?'. He had a hard enough time obeying the law, let alone my grandma. 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 wasnt the kind of man they wanted their oldest daughter to end up with, but he could be awfully charming. Gina Hill. Just a few years, she said, like a few years was a long weekend. Visiting hours began at eight oclock in the morning, so wed either leave late the night before, around ten oclock, or early in the morning, at about three. But nobody got hurt, and those bastards just kept coming after him until they convicted him of something.. His greatest success, the heist that made him a minor legend in the New York underworld, was burglarizing an Air France strong room at Kennedy Airport in 1967 and walking out with $480,000. Usually, though, we were in our beat-up Oldsmobile Toronado, the car we got after my father accidentally dropped a lit cigarette in the front seat of our 1969 Chrysler Newport, causing it to go up in flames. All he said was that he was writing about his life back in New York. This behavior was partly out of love, and partly out of greed for the luxurious lifestyle, his criminal background gave her. But somewhere deep down, beneath her gullibility, was the womans intuition. My head hurt so bad I didnt care how I looked to anyone driving by. She was, however, a private detective. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Her children released a book in 2004, titled On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, that tells their own version of their experience with the Mafia. 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. This is a copy of the contract my father signed when he agreed to become an FBI informant in exchange for protection from his crew. As Sherry started cutting Janets curly blond hair, the two chatted you know, a typical salon conversation. As for what he told his buddies at the bar, his cover was classic: he worked for the CIA. The next day, Michael was fired. Those bastards. She made it sound like the government was picking on him over something petty. She had been hired a New York law firm representingformer mob boss, Jimmy Burke. It's cable reimagined No. She walked into Sherrys home, which was unlocked, and went straight to the bedroom to find her husband sleeping. He got mad and threw her out of the car, miles from home, and tore off so fast that the tires threw gravel in her face. Actor: Sinatra Club. He told her how much he still loved Sherry and managed to convince her to let him in the house. Every time Hill was busted by local authorities, he and his family had to relocate so as to keep them off the mafia radar, and within the first year of their time in the program, the Hills had moved from Omaha, Nebraska, to Independence, Kentucky, then to the sleepy town of Redmond, Washington. Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. We had it backwards, Girl Scouts asking for cookies, almost like a scam. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). See Photos. Still, I knew it was different this time because my mom was crying. He stayed out all night, and in the morning he hired a limousine to take him to prison. In On the Run we discover that in 1980, after being shuttled from one hotel to another for several months while the Feds got as much information as they could from Hill, the family ended up on the outskirts of Omaha, Neb. Hill teamed up with journalist and writer Nick Pileggi on the tome, which documented the time he had spent working in the mafia underworld in New York City, from the horrific 'whackings' he witnessed to his eventual decision to rat on his fellow gangsters in a desperate attempt to save himself. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. I guess I had my dads charm. It was only a matter of time until Hill landed in prison. She didnt want me to know how upset she was. Hill was even making collect phone calls from Omaha to New York. He ran numbers and sold bootlegged cigarettes out of his car. His notorious smile kept the girls from asking any further questions. They started double dating (with Vivian and her husband) and Hill always made an impression with his 100-dollar tips. My dad owned a restaurant called The Suite, and he must have been doing pretty well because we could afford to live in a place like the Fairview. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. When Anders asked her: 'Do you know Martin Lewis?' 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. Sherry accepted his apology. They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. I don't think it lasted more than a month, and it brought about an ugly breakup. Janet, who thought Hill was a Shmuck, noticed the terror in Sherrys eyes when they met. I was in first grade at P.S. After their first date, the two were inseparable. For the third time in a year and a half, the Hills were moved again. He started betting on Kentucky horses. Please enjoy this small glimpse into the life of a mobster/father that my family and I are able to share. They were moved to Independence, Kentucky, and were given new identities. It always took a little while to get past the guards. In 2006, at the encouragement of Liotta, Hill entered rehabilitation to combat his drug addiction problems. The details of my fathers line of work were sketchy to me when I was eight. 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. Gregg ultimately became a successful attorney. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. Worse, he behaved like it was some mobster joint back in New York City. 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. Nearly broke, Sherry had no choice but to take her son to her hometown and move in with her parents. 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. Henry Hill then became an informant to the FBI, which caused Karen and the children to enter the Witness Protection Program, where they were given new identities and lived in numerous locations through the 1980s. When I was five, my mother made a left turn into a gas station in Island Park in front of a drunk driver who was speeding. There were twenty-two hundred men inside, some of the worst criminals in the federal system. After their divorce, he remarried and had another child. He would disappear for days (probably to visit his actual family). The comments below have not been moderated, By I wanted to visit my dad right away. In the end he died at a hospital . Hill's arrest in 1980 by Nassau County narcotics officers officially marked the end of his life in the Lucchese family. 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. Jimmy Conway's crew took part in the 1967 Air France robbery and the 1978 Lufthansa heist, both of which reaped lucrative rewards; the latter was the most profitable cash robbery in US history. There was also another reason for why she didnt want to cut the cord Yes, she was pregnant. Dont you ever f***ing come back here! she screamed. Wed 13 Jun 2012 11.51 EDT 50 Henry Hill has died - of natural causes. Still, there were those close to Anders who voiced their doubts about her sudden infatuation with Hill, with salon owner Vivian Walsh, who owned the space where Anders rented a chair, warning that there was 'something kind of creepy about him'. That is where this book by Gregg and Gina Hill comes into play. Sherry may have been nave, but she was no aggressor. By the time they made close friends and felt comfortable enough to spill the beans, their friends disappeared from their lives too spooked to keep up the friendships. He had a better ride through the Pennsylvania farmlands than I ever did. That, and Hills personal involvement in a drug ring, meant the feds were on to him. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. Ten years after their wedding Hill called Anders, who has now also changed her name from Sherry to Scarlett. It was magic, Sherry recalled. Sherry was in the shower, and just like the scene from Psycho, the curtains were viciously pulled back. She thought a nice Jewish girl like my mom should have married a doctor or a lawyer, not some hoodlum Catholic from Brooklyn that shed met on a blind date. She stormed out of the house as her daughter called out to her, Mom, what are you doing?. Our trips to Lewisburg were always miserable. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. She managed to flee by car. Late gangster Henry Hill - who was portrayed by Liotta in Martin Scorcese's hit 1990 movie - was taken into the FBI's witness protection program with his wife Karen and their two children, Gail and Michael, in 1980 after helping to jail members of his infamous mafia gang. My father was one of them. As for Nick, the co-writer, he knew of the danger of his involvement with the mobster. 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. Of particular interest to Janet, was Sherrys recent marriage to Martin. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. Along the way he peddled cookbooks, travel guides, posters anything for a buck, anything to relive, just for an instant, his days of glittering infamy. He stole everything and from everyone. Pistol-whipped him! That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. She recounted how, just seven weeks after they met for the first time, Hill suggested that they 'get married today'. So, he became an informant. Years later, she admitted, It was so devastating I wanted to kill myself, to be quite honest. Slowly but surely, she moved on and started doing hair and makeup for movies and TV shows. Hill immediately got drunk and started cursing out loud in front of the local yokels. Their divorce was finalized in 2002. Karen Hill eventually confessed to her daughter Gina that it was the fascination and glamour of the criminal lifestyle that attracted her to Henry. But Hill, aka Marty, was bored, reckless, and started hustling more and more. According to Gregg Hill, his father constantly cheated on his wife, Karan, and he even got married again to one of his drug buddies while he was still married to Karen. Then the prison would rise up through the windshield, climbing above the trees like a fortress in the woods. The Hill kids were struggling too. I had a friend in the building, and wed go roaming around the hallways, knocking on doors. Tony also probes Hill on the ultimate, moral penalty of terrorizing another human being, beyond the consequences of the law. 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. Ted was taken aback by Karen's behavior, and he gave up the attempt to force her. Hill later married Kelly Alor from 1990 to 1996 and then later got engaged to Lisa Caserta from 2006 up until his death in 2012. 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. But there would always be at least one nice old lady whod say, Oh, how cute, and give us cookies and milk. With this, Karen went into panic mode. To make it worse, the son, Michael, was busing tables at El Toreador, where he saw his dad with his drinking buddies. Unfortunately, Hill later discovered the only reason the girl married Hill was because she thought he had money. 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. But that only pushed my father closer to the men at the cabstand. 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.). When they said their goodbyes, he kissed her hand and said, Ill love you forever.. They wanted dirt on the prosecution's star witness. "One of the most painful things I ever did was leave my mother and my sister. 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). He was back off the wagon drinking, drugging risking his cover while his family did everything they could to lay low. The two met for the first time at a, Karen Friedman Hill was mostly unaware of her husbands illegal, Things took a nasty turn when Henry received a ten-year sentence for, Henrys children officially released a book titled On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, in the year 2004 that gives the readers an insight into the family's life. On New Years Eve, he didnt show up for, leaving her crying for hours. They poked through everything with their batons, and they glared at us, like we were the criminals instead of the men inside. Later on, my father used to brag that hed bought off the guards so that my mother could smuggle things in, but it didnt seem like it at the time. 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. Now, almost 25 years later, Gregg and Gina Hill are breaking their own silence in a new book called "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. The siblings were invited to discuss the book on Today. Heres an excerpt: GINA: One of my earliest memories of my dad was my mom telling me he was going away. She was born in New York and raised in the Five Towns area of . Hes MY husband, Sherry told her. The problem now was that the Hills were kicked out of the Witness Protection program, based on continued arrests and breaches of security. Hill was dealing drugs, which led to his arrest in a DEA sting. Sherrys next move was breaking the bad news to her mother, who adored her son-in-law, and to her son, Kris, who was heartbroken. I had a much different childhood than most children, for starters, I and my brother grew up in the Witness Protection Program; however, this blog is about my father, not us. Soon after, Gregg Hill left home to go out on his own. Gregg Hill remembered the trips to visit their father in Lewisburg while he was incarcerated there. My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. And so, she pulled Hill by the collar and dragged him to Sherrys house with papers in hand. 21:30 GMT 26 May 2022 He even bragged about his double life to his friends. That was my dads greatest asset, his charm. The private detective had been hired by a New York law firm to look into Henry Hill, who was rumored to be in Washington. Lorraine Bracco depicted Karen Hill in the film Goodfellas, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. But he didnt try hard enough. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Self - Henry Hill's Daughter. 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. Gregg and Gina talk about life in witness protection and their book, On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. He was put behind bars in 1987 and later claimed he dodged at least two attempts by Vario and Burke goons who were in the same prison to have him killed. 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. She was mesmerized with the glitz and glamour of being a gangster's wife who was involved in organized crime and the life his earning potential can buy her. So it's cool.'. Sherry would lie to herself it was the stress of a new relationship, thats all. I hated being poor, which we were since my father had gone to prison, and I hated even looking like we were poor. We were living in the Fairview, a luxury high-rise right across the highway from Flushing Meadows, in Queens. Of course, I dont actually remember a lot of that, and I didnt know most of those stories until years later. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. 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. She knew nothing about who Martin Lewis really was about his double life, his wife and two teenage kids. 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