But eventually, Sherry needed to head back to work to make money. He was given a bulletproof vest to wear whenever he was with Hill, but he never wore it. Hill later did a 180, claiming that Sherry was never pregnant, and they were never even married. Theyd get a tip from one of the guys on the loading docks at Kennedy Airport whenever a good load was going out, and theyd follow the driver until he stopped at a red light. When Karen found out her husband was a bigamist, Hill gave her this incredible excuse; Dont worry; it means nothing. 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. I don't think it lasted more than a month, and it brought about an ugly breakup. Brown, the former owner of the Boston Celtics who bought KFC from Colonel Sanders and became the governor of Kentucky. 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. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent adventures. Burke wanted Janet to find Hill and get as much dirt as on the governments star witness to discredit his testimony. What that meant was that the Church offered legal provisions for one-party annulments under certain circumstances. They knew Hill was going to go to a dance club, so Sherry and Karen walked in arm and arm. When Sherry was turning to Karen for support, she let slip the fact that a private eye had been investigating her for months. The two women who were married to the same man talked. When Sherry said no, she got violent again. Karen got officially separated from Henry in 1989, and she filed for divorce in 1990, which got finalized in the year 2002. Eight years old, and I had to get past an armed guard to see my father. - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia (2021) . I looked around the apartment. He said he felt closer to God now. Unlike his father, Gregg adored and took special care of his children. Associated Press. I couldnt help but stare back and wonder what they must be thinking: New York hood on the run from the Mob.. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Today, Karen and her two children, Gina and Gregg continue to use an alias to protect their identity. And then my mom told me he was going away. Im going to bash Sherrys face in, and then Im going to beat your father, Karen replied. After their first date, the two were inseparable. Sherry asked the woman, Do you know Martin Lewis? She replied, Yeah, hes my husband.. It was Janet. Hill had to borrow money from her in between his installments from the publisher. Her dreams did come true as the film showed her transition from just an ordinary woman to the gangsters wealthy wife. That, and Hills personal involvement in a drug ring, meant the feds were on to him. As usual, Hill was drunk. Gram was always tough on Dad. Jimmy Burke usually tucked a fifty in the guys shirt pocket for his trouble; thats where he got his nickname, The Gent. Hill died at a hospital in Los Angeles in June 2012 having suffered a heart attack brought on by years of smoking, a habit he blamed on his nerves. Both our design and construction staff have a proven . 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. And if he wasnt in jail, it wasnt unusual for him to go out one night and come back three mornings later. According to Gina and Gregg, Hill spent his days at the racetrack gambling and his nights drinking. Sherry accepted his apology. But I wasnt in a laughing mood. Im not sure exactly what my mother told me hed been convicted of, but I know it wasnt the truth. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. Gina Hill. This behavior was partly out of love, and partly out of greed for the luxurious lifestyle, his criminal background gave her. Gina also got married and started her own family. I said, You know, I hope thats not a red flag, but theres something kind of creepy about him, Vivian later shared. She walked into Sherrys home, which was unlocked, and went straight to the bedroom to find her husband sleeping. Anders said: 'Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two. They eloped not long after my dad beat up Ted, and moved in with my grandparents. "One of the most painful things I ever did was leave my mother and my sister. At the house, Sherry went upstairs and tossed all of Hills stuff out the window his expensive pots, his Armani suits all of it. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. Hill's arrest in 1980 by Nassau County narcotics officers officially marked the end of his life in the Lucchese family. 00:44 GMT 27 May 2022. She also didnt know that anyone who became close to him was a walking target. She was born in New York and raised in the Five Towns area of . He started groping her in the front seat and my mom told him to stop but he didnt so she slapped him. Well, thats the alias the government allowed her to go by (she chose the name). 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. After hearing about the incident, Henry decided to take revenge. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. He called her his Sherry Amour (My Cherie Amour) and told her she was the love of his life. The couple had two kids Gregg and Gina. There was a point where Nick heard he might be a potential kidnapping victim in a plot to get to Hill. For a while, the four of them were like two pairs in a pod. So if I got a migraine in the car, sometimes Id have to hang my head out the window to vomit. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. So, he became an informant. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. And so, Hill was released on probation. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. 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. In fact, in his 2004 bookGangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run, Hill recounted a conversation he had with a friend about his second marriage - in which he insisted that it didn't count as 'bigamy' because he had tied the knot, not as Henry Hill, but as Martin Lewis. Gina Hill. @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2 }. He torched a few buildings. In Vancouver, Sherry and Samantha went shopping as the guys wrote. Tony also probes Hill on the ultimate, moral penalty of terrorizing another human being, beyond the consequences of the law. 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. Whats my sons name? she asked him. I was in first grade at P.S. In walked a likable 38-year-old guy who appeared at their table and introduced himself as Martin Lewis. Im probably leaving out a few things too, like arson. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. Karen first met her future husband, Henry through mutual friends. Hed been sentenced to ten years on November 3, 1972, but his lawyer kept him out for almost two more years with a long string of appeals. We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. When Hill and Anders split Janet approached his second wife for help. 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 name was John Ciaccio, and he owed a gambling debt to a friend of my father, a guy who ran one of the unions at Kennedy Airport. Read an excerpt. Nobody said anything to him, Gregg wrote. The next morning, Karen noticed he wasnt home. Sherry would lie to herself it was the stress of a new relationship, thats all. Theyd come on fast, this stabbing, throbbing pain right behind my eyes that would spread through my whole head. According to his son, it was his fathers decision to get them out of Nebraska. Hill is a design-build firm offering full multi-discipline design, construction and construction administrative services based in Jacksonville, Florida. Karen immediately called Henry. 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. She was, however, a private detective. They started double dating (with Vivian and her husband) and Hill always made an impression with his 100-dollar tips. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Karen Friedman Hill (born January 16, 1946) [1] is an American woman known for her involvement in the American Mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The Hill kids were struggling too. Karen found this incident so insulting that she angrily slapped him. She managed to flee by car. Eventually, Hill testified against his former associates to avoid a possible execution by his crew or going to prison for his crimes. Wed bring pillows and blankets with us, which made me self-conscious when we pulled into a truck stop or the Perkins House of Pancakes because if anyone saw us they might think we were homeless. 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 Im sure she never used the word prison, and it wouldnt have mattered because I was only six years old and wouldnt have known what prison was. She then dragged him out of the bed by the crotch and beat him with a telephone. In the fall of 1981, Hill walked into El Toreador, his favorite spot where he found both of his vices in one package. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. Marty was the fun and spontaneous one, and they just wanted to go along for the ride. Meanwhile, his book with Nick Pileggi, Wiseguy, was published. Before he could properly get kicked out of Sherrys house, he passed out. Hill immediately got drunk and started cursing out loud in front of the local yokels. Frankly, On the Run could have been entitled Daddy Dearest. Its just temporary, she said. Theyre not going to miss this little hairdresser from Bellevue, theyre going to come in and blow you away, he told her. And again, Sherry escaped. Henry Hill was an FBI informant whose life was immortalized by the 1990 movie Goodfellas, where he was played by Ray Liotta. Soon after, Gregg Hill left home to go out on his own. It's cable reimagined No. My dad was always buying me dolls. At least, at first. And Hill was everywhere she couldnt hide from him. Yet again, the man who was supposed to be laying low was making too much noise. But Janet was a professional (albeit only 25 years old) and had a job to do. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. Its not easy getting up on the stand, he later said of turning his back on his ex-mentors. 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. He would disappear for days (probably to visit his actual family). The sun had just gone down, and the kitchen was dark. But there would always be at least one nice old lady whod say, Oh, how cute, and give us cookies and milk. How could she have been so blind? 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. He even bragged about his double life to his friends. 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. People named Gina Hill. 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. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. Her children released a book in 2004, titled 'On the Run: A Mafia Childhood', which was about their own experience with the Mafia. Easy romance was just as enticing. Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. Im done with Sherry, she said in an interview. Sherry went with Janet to see Goodfellas in theaters when it came out. Gregg Hill remembered the trips to visit their father in Lewisburg while he was incarcerated there. Hills death came 34 years after his last major job with his gang: the Lufthansa heist at John F Kennedy airport in New York in December 1978, which netted them a then-record $5.875 million. Self - Henry Hill's Daughter. His father, Grandpa Hill, beat him with a belt when he found out; he was an honest man, an Irish electrician with a Sicilian wife raising eight kids my father and his five sisters and two younger brothers in a walk-up. Lured by power and money, Hill gradually became more entrenched with the family and while his half-Sicilian genes his father was Irish meant he could never be a fully-fledged member of the family, he was able to be an associate. He's my husband. She wiped the tears from her eyes and streaks of mascara from her cheeks. My father was one of them. 'I'm Marty Lewis, and this is my first wife. The guys at the cabstand, they didnt smack me. 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. In another jaw-on-the-floor moment, Hill drank himself dumb as he watched his wives have a hell of a night on the dance floor. He stole everything and from everyone. But under witness protection, everything changed. Just a few years, she said, like a few years was a long weekend. Karen Hill eventually confessed to her daughter Gina that it was the fascination and glamour of the criminal lifestyle that attracted her to Henry. Anders, however, was entirely unaware of her husband's dark past - and his murky present - and had no idea that his arrival in her hometown came as the result of the multiple crimes he had committed, not only in New York as a gangster, but in the various other locations where he and his family were squirrelled away by law enforcement. The funny thing is he never even showed up to court. 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. It was only a matter of time until Hill landed in prison. Not much later, Karen returned to the house to scream at Sherry and demand that she sign the papers. Gram probably knew it was stolen, but she never asked, so my dad never had to answer. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. In time, I would grow to hate those words. Once a migraine started, I was done for the day. Everyone in Redmond just figured it was a joke, of course. 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. 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. 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. She lost the suit and the judge even ordered her to pay Hills legal fees. As for Henry Hill, he continued on his downward spiral. Whereas Hill was doing all the wrong things, Karen went into survival mode. "', 'I am utterly shattered': Ray Liotta's devastated Goodfellas co-star Lorraine Bracco leads tributes as Hollywood reacts to his shock death at age 67, 'He was way too young': Robert De Niro, 78, pays tribute to Goodfellas co-star Ray Liotta, 67, who died in his sleep next to his fiancee in Dominican Republic hotel while shooting new film Dangerous Waters, Ray Liotta's last film: Goodfella's star was shooting thriller Dangerous Waters with Eric Dane about 'a teen uncovering her mother's dark past' before he died in the Dominican Republic. She knew something wasnt right. There were twenty-two hundred men inside, some of the worst criminals in the federal system. 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. With each move, came new identities. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. And then wed get to the prison. 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 . Janet Christensen had been watching Sherry for weeks and actually felt bad for the woman so much so that she almost broke protocol and spilled the beans to her in the salon. In On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill. He would stay out all night, and then my mom and grandma would get into terrible arguments. Hill went so far as to threaten Sherry with her life if she didnt sign the divorce papers. As they headed to Nevada for a quickie wedding, Sherry was on cloud nine. The guards made her take everything out and then they searched the bag with a baton and a miniature flashlight. She called him Morton and couldnt stop talking about him to her friends. That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. 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 my parents first got married, in 1965, they lived with my grandparents, my moms parents, in Valley Stream, on Long Island. It was here that he participated in the murder and burial of a fellow mobster. This is one of the menus in my father's restaurant. See Photos. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. 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. With this, Karen went into panic mode. See Photos. 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 . 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. Sign Up. 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. 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. In the book, Gregg and Gina discuss how their maternal grandparents, and Karen's two younger sisters, Cheryl and Ellen, helped take care of them, when Karen and Henry were out dealing in crime.Henry died in 2012. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. Take that, middle America. No one asked why it was so urgent for him to leave the country. Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two, Sherry announced. Prior to that, he had become embroiled in underworld gambling at a race track near his temporary home in Kentucky. Thats no way for a married man to behave! So my parents moved in and out, depending on how much money they had. Those who knew her well say that shes surrounded by nature, which makes her happy. Hills prediction was right: it was a bestseller. Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. She and Hill eventually parted ways, last living together in Rockville Centre. The small and striking brunette, 31, was a beautician who grew up around horses and knew her way around the track. It was an incident which made the bond she shared with Henry stronger. 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. 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.. There was a doorman at each of the three different sections of the complex and a big circular driveway out front, and we had a small terrace that overlooked the park. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. The mobster, who died at the age of 69 in 2012, assumed varying cover stories during his time in witness protection. 220, and maybe a little precocious. Read an excerpt. They were acquitted in that case. 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. The state of Florida indicted them first for kidnapping and attempted murder. They were moved to Independence, Kentucky, and were given new identities. If youre wondering if Janet was Hills wife, she wasnt. 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. Then we went up a set of wide stone steps into the building, where we got in line with everyone else who had a father or a brother or a son locked up in Lewisburg. One day, Sherry saw a woman in the same car her Martin drove, a beat-up green Ford Pinto. Dad had a union card, and the bricklayers supposedly paid him $135 a week, but he didnt even pretend to work a normal job. Their design and construction work history include an array of governmental, institutional, commercial, and private-sector projects. I guess I had my dads charm. 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. In the film, Karen Hill was portrayed as a woman with a sense of rationalizing everything her husband Henry had done. It helps, but is not necessary, to have read Wiseguy (I haven't) or seen Goodfellas (I have, multiple times). She said Hill had recently made his peace with his family, but I dont think he ever got over his demons. Hes a married man! Gram would scream. Made By the Mobster Gina Hill. I dont know how long wed lived there before my mom told me Dad was leaving. He was always on the phone, walking around the house, dragging the long spiral cord behind him. 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. 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. There stood Karen, furious as can be, and she started beating Sherry with the same phone. Through the 1970s, the Hill family was involved in organized crime, through which they became very wealthy and lived extravagantly. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent . He had a better ride through the Pennsylvania farmlands than I ever did. @gina.hill.50552338. 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. 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. The script for the film was based on the book Wise guy written by Nicholas Pileggi. Sherry was a hopeless romantic. 'He kind of slinked in and didn't make good eye contact when I was introduced,' she told Pearl and Nichols. She hugged me and then left me alone. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. This book is told from two perspectives, where Gregg first gives his version of what happened and his feeling about what they were going through, and then Gina gives her versions. Of particular interest to Janet, was Sherrys recent marriage to Martin. For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. But nobody got hurt, and those bastards just kept coming after him until they convicted him of something.. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. G.M. Healthy Lifestyle Coach at Kyani Nitro Nutrition GinaHill.Kyani.com. Twice Karen is said to have attacked Anders, who told Pearl and Nichols: 'I was never so scared in my life.'. So brazen was Hill that he even wore a 'Witness Protection Program' T-shirt while dating Anders. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). He stayed out all night, and in the morning he hired a limousine to take him to prison. But he didnt try hard enough. 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. The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. 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. There was one day when Sherry ran into Karen her fellow survivor and had a chat about their husbands past infidelities. Isnt that special?. It began to snow and soon enough, all of his stuff was buried under the white. , updated Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. But somewhere deep down, beneath her gullibility, was the womans intuition. He wasnt the kind of man they wanted their oldest daughter to end up with, but he could be awfully charming. Nearly broke, Sherry had no choice but to take her son to her hometown and move in with her parents. Their lives were far from normal. Henry Hill, an associate in the . Sherry threw all my clothes out of her second-story bedroom window right into a pile of snow. 6 Amazon travel essentials for your next getaway, starting at $12. 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