"', '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. On her way home, Sherry mulled over what she had just discovered a massive blow to the bubble she was (sort of) living in. How could she have been so blind? The details of my fathers line of work were sketchy to me when I was eight. Your father did some things he shouldnt have done, is how shed put it. In the midst of Karens threats to Sherry over the phone, Sherry told Hill that she was pregnant. My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. Henry Hill, Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) was a New York City mobster. 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. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. 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. 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. I had a much different childhood than most children, for starters, I and my brother . And Hill didn't just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. None of them ever did, but my father did his best to rip it off. Brains, not beauty, solves cases, Janet would say in interviews. That was my mom, trying to make something very big sound very small. Martin moved into the apartment Sherry was sharing with her roommate and lifelong friend, Samantha, who had a son of her own. Karen is believed to be alive and running her own business today. The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. In line with his eternal luck, Hill was rescued by the FBI. '[Sherry and I] both knew the marriage wasn't valid when we sobered up,' he recalled. Her dreams did come true as the film showed her transition from just an ordinary woman to the gangsters wealthy wife. Like a moth to a flame, Hill found his way to make money. He was eventually removed from the general inmate population. And here comes my second wife, he bragged when she walked up to him. I got smacked at home, I got smacked at school, he said later. But nobody got hurt, and those bastards just kept coming after him until they convicted him of something.. The marriage was finally over. It was titled, On The Run: A Mafia Childhood. She walked into Sherrys home, which was unlocked, and went straight to the bedroom to find her husband sleeping. She even ended her friendship with Samantha, whom Hill told her he slept with one night (he never did). The comments below have not been moderated, By It helps, but is not necessary, to have read Wiseguy (I haven't) or seen Goodfellas (I have, multiple times). 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. Did she know of his past, his family, his involvement as an informant? Gina Hill. He would disappear for days (probably to visit his actual family). She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. Unfortunately, Hill later discovered the only reason the girl married Hill was because she thought he had money. 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. After her marriage with Henry Hill she had two children, Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. He Was Not Ready For What He Discovered There, Buns in the Oven: Couple Gets Pregnant After 17 Years, The Murder Story of the Wealthiest Woman in Monaco. Nobody said anything to him, Gregg wrote. What was once a general underlying anxiety was now full-fledged panic. 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. There stood Karen, furious as can be, and she started beating Sherry with the same phone. The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. Now that the secret was out, Janet no longer had to tiptoe around. 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 next morning, Karen noticed he wasnt home. After about twenty years together it's said that Caserta and Hill were ready to finally tie the knot and she was also at his side when died. 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. The movie Goodfellas told the story of Henry Hill the gangster who famously broke the mafia code of silence. I dont know how long wed lived there before my mom told me Dad was leaving. They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. Not much later, Karen returned to the house to scream at Sherry and demand that she sign the papers. Several sources, including Alchetron, say that Karen runs her own business, but that may only be speculation. One day, Sherrys nephew, a toddler, pulled her handgun out from her purse, nearly giving her sister a heart attack. Then the prison would rise up through the windshield, climbing above the trees like a fortress in the woods. 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. Janet meant real trouble for her family. I could never understand why my mother always brought so much with her. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. Easy romance was just as enticing. But when he drank, he was a loudmouth, which was how Karen heard about the pregnancy. Therefore, exact details about them are still unavailable. 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. She knew something wasnt right. I don't think it lasted more than a month, and it brought about an ugly breakup. It took quite a while for the DEA officials to confirm that their target Martin Lewis was actually Henry Hill, and when the news broke, choppers were hovering over the Hill house for weeks. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. Take that, middle America. As for Henry Hill, he continued on his downward spiral. Despite being under the supervision of the Feds, Hill became a violent drug addict and began dealing drugs to support his habit. Twice Karen is said to have attacked Anders, who told Pearl and Nichols: 'I was never so scared in my life.'. Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. After their first date, the two were inseparable. Though it is speculated that Henry Hill's had five children, our research could only point us clearly to Gina and Gregg who were born to him by his first wife Karen and were 11 and 13 years in May 1980 when they entered into witness protection program with their parents and had to change their identities and locations as well as cut ties with I came back, and I had a second chance, he told her. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent . 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. 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. Gina flew to Florida, and although Justin was already in a foster home, Gina was able to obtain custody. And then my mom told me he was going away. He ran up huge bogus tabs at his own restaurant, The Suite, on stolen credit cards. The truth was, as I found out later, somebody did get hurt. Announcing his death, Hills girlfriend Lisa Casserta said he struggled with alcoholism. They beat the state case, and now the feds are going after him, she said. Hed tell my grandma he did a guy a favor and bought a load of merchandise from him, stuff she could help sell to the neighbors. He had a hard enough time obeying the law, let alone my grandma. 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. With each move, came new identities. At the house, Sherry went upstairs and tossed all of Hills stuff out the window his expensive pots, his Armani suits all of it. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. , updated After he and Karen divorced, Karen went off the grid. Still, I knew it was different this time because my mom was crying. Funnily enough, in a way that fit his lack of concern, his latest identity combined the names of his favorite comics: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Henry Hill. And so, Hill was released on probation. 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. Anders would later throw him out of their home, screaming: 'Don't you ever f***ing come back here.'. Gina Hill. Gregg Hill remembered the trips to visit their father in Lewisburg while he was incarcerated there. Finding steady work at a local morning show in Seattle, she moved to the city. In the Afterword of the On the Run Greg Scott wrote, In the 1990s, after he (Henry Hill) squandered whatever money he made off the book and the movie, he was in and out of prison on an assortment of charges and parole violations. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. It is not known where she is now. Burke wanted Janet to find Hill and get as much dirt as on the governments star witness to discredit his testimony. For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. Thats no way for a married man to behave! So my parents moved in and out, depending on how much money they had. Its not easy getting up on the stand, he later said of turning his back on his ex-mentors. The decision was rash, but so was their whirlwind relationship. Hill was the hustler not her. Hill grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he admired local mafiosi, including Paul Vario, a capo in the Luchesse crime family. Sherry needed to keep her son safe. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. Sherry was all smiles and all ears. He stole, fenced, bootlegged, loan-sharked, and extorted. 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. Hill had already beenarrested for getting into a fight with a presumed mistress when they were hidden inIndependence, Kentucky. 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. Karen is initially troubled by Henry's criminal activities, but she is eventually drawn to the glamorous lifestyle that comes with being a mobster's wife. See Photos. In 1980 Hill left the life, entered the witness protection program and testified against the mob. She called him Morton and couldnt stop talking about him to her friends. Ten years after their wedding Hill called Anders, who has now also changed her name from Sherry to Scarlett. Their design and construction work history include an array of governmental, institutional, commercial, and private-sector projects. Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two, Sherry announced. At any rate, in 2004 another book addressing the Henry Hill saga appeared. 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. My sister and I had to empty our pockets, and my mother had to hand over her purse to get searched. He told people he worked for the government, an insurance investigator and an author. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. He told her that he recently dealt with a medical crisis and almost died. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. The two women who were married to the same man talked. Finally, through a religious loophole Karen was able to get the marriage annulled. He was arrested on a number of occasions in the years leading up to his death for public drunkenness. She said Hill had recently made his peace with his family, but I dont think he ever got over his demons. 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. Hills prediction was right: it was a bestseller. With Janets help, Sherry sued Hill for compensation of the money he siphoned off from her when they were married. Both were in shock over what they were each hearing. 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 refused to sign them. Finally, Karen figured out a way to dissolve Hills marriage to Sherry. My father thought it was funny, eating at Godfathers Pizza, and maybe it was funny, Gregg wrote. My head hurt so bad I didnt care how I looked to anyone driving by. So, he became an informant. Following his arrest for the robbery on April 27, 1980, detectives played him wire taps of other mob members threatening to kill him but he refused to talk, at least for a while. For example, there is a scene where a neighbor named Ted tried to force himself on Karen when she was dating Henry. Gregg, in his early teens, thoroughly hated his father and his fathers deceptive and downright mean machinations, while Gina, a few years younger, was more of a Daddys Girl, until she eventually smartened up too. As a result, the state took away their son. 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