I was in first grade at P.S. She had been hired a New York law firm representingformer mob boss, Jimmy Burke. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". Not much later, Karen returned to the house to scream at Sherry and demand that she sign the papers. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. 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. For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. 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. So, he became an informant. 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. My head hurt so bad I didnt care how I looked to anyone driving by. It was a long ride, five and a half hours, too long to feel comfortable in a car, especially with two dogs dozing in the backseat with my little sister. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. As for Nick, the co-writer, he knew of the danger of his involvement with the mobster. She wiped the tears from her eyes and streaks of mascara from her cheeks. Henry Hill, Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) was a New York City mobster. I dont want anything to do with you! she yelled when she saw him. He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. 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. There was a point where Nick heard he might be a potential kidnapping victim in a plot to get to Hill. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. As it turned out, Hill's new married life in Washington would provide him with enough real-life scandal to fill another book, even as he was penning the first about his life as a member of the mafia. With nothing much that they could do, Sherry and Samantha put him in a room to sleep it off. [2] Early life [ edit] For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Watch a rare interview with one of the most famous wiseguys of all time Henry Hill, of "Goodfellas" fame. Dad had a union card, and the bricklayers supposedly paid him $135 a week, but he didnt even pretend to work a normal job. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. In Gangsters and Goodfellas, Hill conceded that his 'attempt at bigamy' had been 'a complete failure', not least because he kept returning to the home that he also shared with first wife Karen and their children. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. 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. by Gina Hall (Author), Gregg Hill (Author) 299 ratings Kindle $11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $38.91 51 Used from $2.06 5 New from $29.98 2 Collectible from $14.00 Paperback $22.99 6 Used from $15.57 3 New from $17.23 Mass Market Paperback $16.78 9 Used from $12.80 Their dad was Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film. Karen immediately called Henry. It began to snow and soon enough, all of his stuff was buried under the white. Marty was the fun and spontaneous one, and they just wanted to go along for the ride. How a man could do so much harm to his own family is shocking; even sickening. 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. He stole, fenced, bootlegged, loan-sharked, and extorted. She called him Morton and couldnt stop talking about him to her friends. It was Janet. 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. As for Karen she divorced Hill in 1990 and it was finalized in 2002. 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. The real Henry Hill talking to Karen Hill. Her name was actually Karen Hill, and the woman was tired of being moved around by marshals and being played by her husband. But even her most suspicious friends found something appealing about this Martin guy. 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. Mafia turncoat Henry Hill and his two children are interviewed. And Hill didn't just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. It helped that a bona fide journalist named Nick Pileggi whom he introduced as his co-writer would come by often. Book Review On the Run by Gregg and GinaHill. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. My mother always brought a big bag jammed with all kinds of stuff. They knew Hill was going to go to a dance club, so Sherry and Karen walked in arm and arm. He told her that he recently dealt with a medical crisis and almost died. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. 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. Thats how she said it: Daddy has to go away for a little while. It was late in the afternoon, and she was leaning down so her face was close to mine and I could smell her perfume. Sherry stared at her in disbelief this must be a mistake. Thats no way for a married man to behave! So my parents moved in and out, depending on how much money they had. The next day, Michael was fired. I have work. It was his smile that damn smile that always worked on her. Janet meant real trouble for her family. She was, however, a private detective. My dad tried to make my grandma happy. She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. How could she have been so blind? Few areas of American culture have been more falsely glamorized than the mafia. It felt like she was being interrogated. It was titled, On The Run: A Mafia Childhood. 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 came with a small handgun in her purse, just in case, and asked her friend to call the police if she didnt hear from her by 2 p.m. At the diner, seeing a table of uniformed cops offered her some relief. Sherry wasnt going to sign anything without an attorney. But somewhere deep down, beneath her gullibility, was the womans intuition. It is not known where she is now. It was about ten years after their wedding that Sherry got a call. 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. Like a moth to a flame, Hill found his way to make money. What he lacked in the looks department he made up for with his charisma. One time, his dad even pulled a gun on a cook. Henry Hill, an associate in the . Sherry accepted his apology. The movie Goodfellas told the story of Henry Hill the gangster who famously broke the mafia code of silence. Gregg and Gina talk about life in witness protection and their book, On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. Those bastards. She made it sound like the government was picking on him over something petty. And if he wasnt in jail, it wasnt unusual for him to go out one night and come back three mornings later. 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 One day shes a dental assistant from a middle-class family on Long Island, and the next shes sipping from a bottle of champagne that Sammy Davis Jr. sent to Dads table at the Copa. One day, Sherry saw a woman in the same car her Martin drove, a beat-up green Ford Pinto. The two women decided to make their unique situation a little more amusing. I guess I had my dads charm. As for Sherry, she went back to the Hill home to take back the horse she had sent for Hills daughter. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". The marshals in charge of keeping Hill alive were constantly shaking their heads, but Hill was a tad delusional. At the house, Sherry went upstairs and tossed all of Hills stuff out the window his expensive pots, his Armani suits all of it. He ran numbers and sold bootlegged cigarettes out of his car. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. 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. Henry took care of it. Or when my dad and his friend Tommy DeSimone would back a truck up to the garage and unload boxes of microwaves or knit shirts or toaster ovens. Thats who my dad was to me then, a wonderful man who brought me dolls and called me Princess. 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. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood is the authors' account of their childhood as the son and daughter of Henry Hill, the infamous mobster and informant whose story was the basis of Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and the movie Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese.. 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. 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. 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. 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 the best Mob informant [theyd] ever get, he later boasted. Sherry rode the white, bony horse bareback into the night, crying the whole way. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. And so, Hill was released on probation. That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. where their family surname was changed to Haynes. There was also another reason for why she didnt want to cut the cord Yes, she was pregnant. According to his son and his daughter, Henry Hill was truly a despicable man. See Photos. The funny thing is he never even showed up to court. But Janet was a professional (albeit only 25 years old) and had a job to do. Married to a mobster, Karen tried to maintain any form of normalcy in her chaotic life. She managed to flee by car. Sherry would lie to herself it was the stress of a new relationship, thats all. But by this point Anders was pregnant and flatly refused. Karen found this incident so insulting that she angrily slapped him. Sherry was in the shower, and just like the scene from Psycho, the curtains were viciously pulled back. They were moved to Independence, Kentucky, and were given new identities. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. But eventually, Sherry needed to head back to work to make money. Karen has remained out of the limelight since the family came out of the Witness Protection Program. 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. Over the years, he would fly to New York to testify against Paul Vario and Jimmy Burke, his old accomplices. After her marriage with Henry Hill she had two children, Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. But there would always be at least one nice old lady whod say, Oh, how cute, and give us cookies and milk. She suffered a miscarriage; likely due to the incredible amount of stress she was under. Well, thats the alias the government allowed her to go by (she chose the name). Sherry needed to keep her son safe. When Sherry said no, she got violent again. They were acquitted in that case. Martin Scorsese has explored different genres throughout his career as a filmmaker, earning the respect of viewers, critics, and fellow filmmakers, but he continues to be best known for his gangster movies - and the one often . As usual, Hill was drunk. And she was already pregnant with my brother. I hated being poor, which we were since my father had gone to prison, and I hated even looking like we were poor. Janet, who became a good friend of Sherrys, helped the scorned woman find some closure by tracking Hill down. The next morning, Karen noticed he wasnt home. He was arrested on a number of occasions in the years leading up to his death for public drunkenness. Through the 1970s, the Hill family was involved in organized crime, through which they became very wealthy and lived extravagantly. Written with Sean Flynn, the siblings tell their story of life with a mobster father and the realities of being in witness protection. Im done with Sherry, she said in an interview. Making friends was hard given that they couldnt reveal much about their lives. Our trips to Lewisburg were always miserable. Just a few years, she said, like a few years was a long weekend. Despite being under the supervision of the Feds, Hill became a violent drug addict and began dealing drugs to support his habit. She usually fell back on a gambling charge if she got specific at all. They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. On New Years Eve, he didnt show up for, leaving her crying for hours. Born on June 11, 1943, in the tough Brownsville area of New York, Hill was the fifth of seven children and the first son to his Sicilian mother Carmella and his father, also called Henry. Jimmy Burke usually tucked a fifty in the guys shirt pocket for his trouble; thats where he got his nickname, The Gent. 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. 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. Please enjoy this small glimpse into the life of a mobster/father that my family and I are able to share. Maybe it was because we were so young, but my mother always told us that my father wasnt a real criminal. 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