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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. 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. Listed below are some pieces of my father's life that I will share on this blog and a small description of what was going on in his life during the time. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Sherry stared at her in disbelief this must be a mistake. Sherry would lie to herself it was the stress of a new relationship, thats all. It was like another country, Henry later said. The decision was rash, but so was their whirlwind relationship. It was Janet. The state of Florida indicted them first for kidnapping and attempted murder. She stormed out of the house as her daughter called out to her, Mom, what are you doing?. Karen first met her future husband, Henry through mutual friends. Her children released a book in 2004, titled 'On the Run: A Mafia Childhood', which was about their own experience with the Mafia. Hill was the hustler not her. Of particular interest to Janet, was Sherrys recent marriage to Martin. 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. Kaylen replied: 'Yeah. Hill was sent to prison. (Ha!) His notorious smile kept the girls from asking any further questions. 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. 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. 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. While he was worried about making any disturbances at work, his dad would be getting hammered at the bar. Hill is a design-build firm offering full multi-discipline design, construction and construction administrative services based in Jacksonville, Florida. When Hill came under federal protection, his wife, Karen, and their two children did too. He went out every night dressed in sharp suits and stayed out until dawn if he came home at all, and he always had money to throw around, twenty for the doorman, fifty for the waiter. In 1989, Henry and Karen divorced after 25 years of marriage. Soon enough, Sherry received a phone call. 220, and maybe a little precocious. 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. 'I'm Marty Lewis, and this is my first wife. Thats how he always explained it connections. Like the time the pavers showed up with a truckload of asphalt to blacktop my grandmas driveway. Im done with Sherry, she said in an interview. Kaylen Martin would frequently get into her old Ford Pinto and drive, just to get away from it all. 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. Book Review On the Run by Gregg and GinaHill. 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. 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. On the Run is a terrific read, but quite disturbing. Finally, Karen figured out a way to dissolve Hills marriage to Sherry. It was titled, On The Run: A Mafia Childhood. Janet, who thought Hill was a Shmuck, noticed the terror in Sherrys eyes when they met. My dad tried to make my grandma happy. 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 http://www.amazon.com/Mobsters-Gangs-Crooks-Creeps-ebook/dp/B006H99D1U/ref=zg_bs_11010_5, I never thought that I could enjoy a book about mob rat Henry Hill, but this one written by his son, Gregg, and his daughter, Gina, kept my interest and gave me a vivid account of two poor kids on the run.. 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'. Karen found this incident so insulting that she angrily slapped him. According to Anders' then-roommate Samantha Kellum, who was with her when she met Hill for the first time, their chemistry was 'electric' and clearly evident to all those around them. Sherry asked the woman, Do you know Martin Lewis? She replied, Yeah, hes my husband.. My mother explained it to me in pretty blunt terms, considering how old I was. Whereas Hill was doing all the wrong things, Karen went into survival mode. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. She then dragged him out of the bed by the crotch and beat him with a telephone. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. 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. Nick was around so often that he struck up a romance with Samantha, the roommate. As a host and someone who has been in that world,. Yet again, he was saved by the government. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). He torched a few buildings. The two women who were married to the same man talked. As for Karen she divorced Hill in 1990 and it was finalized in 2002. Dont worry about it, one of them told Gram. It was only a matter of time. 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 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. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. But by this point Anders was pregnant and flatly refused. Wed tell people we were Girl Scouts and ask for cookies. You can take a gangster out of the Mob, but you cant take the Mob out of the gangster. By He had a better ride through the Pennsylvania farmlands than I ever did. The mobster, who died at the age of 69 in 2012, assumed varying cover stories during his time in witness protection. The movie Goodfellas told the story of Henry Hill the gangster who famously broke the mafia code of silence. They beat the state case, and now the feds are going after him, she said. 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. Janet meant real trouble for her family. 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. The next day, Michael was fired. It was magic, Sherry recalled. He would disappear for days (probably to visit his actual family). This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. My father, Jimmy Burke, and the union guy flew to Tampa, where Ciaccio owned a nightclub and a liquor store, and beat the shit out of him; my father, by his account, smacked him in the face a few times with a .38 revolver. And his connections. My dad was always buying me dolls. And if he wasnt in jail, it wasnt unusual for him to go out one night and come back three mornings later. In the film, Karen Hill was portrayed as a woman with a sense of rationalizing everything her husband Henry had done. 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. No one asked why it was so urgent for him to leave the country. Announcing his death, Hills girlfriend Lisa Casserta said he struggled with alcoholism. After their first date, the two were inseparable. Anders told Karen, who decided his second marriage needed to be dissolved immediately. Ted was taken aback by Karen's behavior, and he gave up the attempt to force her. It is not known where she is now. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. Gregg and Gina talk about life in witness protection and their book, On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. I think sometimes my grandparents liked my dad in spite of themselves. Mafia turncoat Henry Hill and his two children are interviewed. It was under this new assumed identity that the mafia boss met Mormon beautician and single mother-of-one Sherry Anders, who spoke out about their 'magic' love affair in a 2019 interview with Pearl and Nichols, revealing how the love rat lothario won her over with his dynamic personality after they met for the first time in a local Mexican restaurant. 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. 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. The couple had two kids Gregg and Gina. For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. But she had her own anger to unleash. 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. Believing that he had slept with Sherry the night before, she went to find her next. That night, they packed their bags and hit the road in Sherrys car with her 13-year-old son from a previous marriage. According to Gina and Gregg, Hill spent his days at the racetrack gambling and his nights drinking. It seemed like this woman knew who her husband was. 2005 The Jane Pauley Show (TV Series) Self. The marriage was finally over. They were moved to Independence, Kentucky, and were given new identities. 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. She called him Morton and couldnt stop talking about him to her friends. 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. Hill immediately got drunk and started cursing out loud in front of the local yokels. In 1981, he was arrested for getting into a fight with some woman, and a month later for passing bad checks. The man was flirting with disaster. The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. 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. @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2 }. Sherry wasnt going to sign anything without an attorney. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. 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. With Janets help, Sherry sued Hill for compensation of the money he siphoned off from her when they were married. We moved a lot when I was little. 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. But nobody got hurt, and those bastards just kept coming after him until they convicted him of something.. The guys at the cabstand, they didnt smack me. Actor: Sinatra Club. by Gregg Hill (Author), Gina Hill (Author) 344 ratings Kindle $11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $28.79 64 Used from $2.36 12 New from $24.85 2 Collectible from $14.00 Paperback $18.93 6 Used from $8.11 6 New from $17.81 Mass Market Paperback $3.04 12 Used from $3.04 But the heist turned up the heat on all the guys connected with it. We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. My head hurt so bad I didnt care how I looked to anyone driving by. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. That is where this book by Gregg and Gina Hill comes into play. Hes MY husband, Sherry told her. We had it backwards, Girl Scouts asking for cookies, almost like a scam. 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. 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 didnt want me to know how upset she was. 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. At least, at first. People named Gina Hill. One time, his dad even pulled a gun on a cook. When Karen found out her husband was a bigamist, Hill gave her this incredible excuse; Dont worry; it means nothing. Soon after, Gregg Hill left home to go out on his own. 'He kind of slinked in and didn't make good eye contact when I was introduced,' she told Pearl and Nichols. As for what he told his buddies at the bar, his cover was classic: he worked for the CIA. Karen seems to relish the brand-new Buick Riveras in the driveway and closets which were always bursting with trending expensive clothes. With this, Karen went into panic mode. Childhood," a joint memoir published in 2004, his son Gregg (who was 13 when the family went underground) and his daughter, Gina (who was 11), recounted their . They poked through everything with their batons, and they glared at us, like we were the criminals instead of the men inside. Whats my sons name? she asked him. Finding steady work at a local morning show in Seattle, she moved to the city. I had a friend in the building, and wed go roaming around the hallways, knocking on doors. He and his family were put under witness protection. 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. Did she know of his past, his family, his involvement as an informant? That gangster, shed say, only shed spit out the words. The small and striking brunette, 31, was a beautician who grew up around horses and knew her way around the track. Apparently, he had a thing for pistol-whipping. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. Well, thats the alias the government allowed her to go by (she chose the name). Karen today continues to use an alias to protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. 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. But I definitely remember the Fairview. As for Nick, the co-writer, he knew of the danger of his involvement with the mobster. GREGG: Wed be up all night, I would be, anyway, riding in the front seat to help my mother stay awake. I got smacked at home, I got smacked at school, he said later. Im probably leaving out a few things too, like arson. But right to the end, he managed to stay one step ahead of the mafia assassins he long feared. 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. He called her his Sherry Amour (My Cherie Amour) and told her she was the love of his life. That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. My father would do almost anything to make a score. They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. 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. He told Sherry of the Thoroughbreds he owned and raced and showed her a photo of a recent victory. Im going to bash Sherrys face in, and then Im going to beat your father, Karen replied. One day, Sherrys nephew, a toddler, pulled her handgun out from her purse, nearly giving her sister a heart attack. It felt like she was being interrogated. As for Sherry, she went back to the Hill home to take back the horse she had sent for Hills daughter. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. He told her how much he still loved Sherry and managed to convince her to let him in the house. There was one day when Sherry ran into Karen her fellow survivor and had a chat about their husbands past infidelities. The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. I guess I had my dads charm. The events of their life were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. 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. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. 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 But the family were still taken out of the witness protection program 'based upon continued arrests and breaches of security'. Gregg Hill remembered the trips to visit their father in Lewisburg while he was incarcerated there. Youre too good for me, he told her one night, drunk. I had a much different childhood than most children, for starters, I and my brother . 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. 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. Despite the obvious cons of being married to a con, she still loved him and had false hope that it would work out. Her instincts proved spot on when one day an unfamiliar woman walked in to the hair salon. One day, Hill announced that the four of them were going on an impromptu trip to Canada immediately. 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. She is an American socialite, known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill. See Photos. But even her most suspicious friends found something appealing about this Martin guy. But eventually, Sherry needed to head back to work to make money. [2] Early life [ edit] At least in New York, she could hide most of the dirt behind humor and carefully placed words. 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. 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. I was in first grade at P.S. And then my mom told me he was going away. Nearly broke, Sherry had no choice but to take her son to her hometown and move in with her parents. Hill had already beenarrested for getting into a fight with a presumed mistress when they were hidden inIndependence, Kentucky. 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. Hill went the other way, and Tony takes him to task for it. The film has many scenes depicted with brutal accuracy from their life. Second son of John Aldersey (c But Karen thought it was a sexy thing to do. With each move, came new identities. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. Things took a nasty turn when Henry received a ten-year sentence for extortion in 1974. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. Just a temporary situation. My mom used that expression for everything bad that happened. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. Of course, not. Made By the Mobster Gina Hill. The girls didnt ask questions and tried not to disturb them. 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. 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. Hes a married man! Gram would scream. Henry Hills dead. She really did assume that Hill was dead, with all the drugs and drinking and wild lifestyle he ran. Hide Self (2 credits) 2021 Narco Wars (TV Series documentary) Self - Henry Hill's Daughter. She and Hill eventually parted ways, last living together in Rockville Centre. Henry Hill. Then the prison would rise up through the windshield, climbing above the trees like a fortress in the woods. Then one of them would stick a gun in his face. 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. He was back off the wagon drinking, drugging risking his cover while his family did everything they could to lay low. Those bastards. She made it sound like the government was picking on him over something petty. Id have to stay in a dark room with a cold compress tied around my head. According to his son and his daughter, Henry Hill was truly a despicable man. The real Henry Hill talking to Karen Hill. Hill later did a 180, claiming that Sherry was never pregnant, and they were never even married. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent . Finally, after Hill, against the governments rules, decided to let writer Nick Pileggi pen his autobiography, the government dropped Hill and his family from the Witness Protection Program. 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. Sherry was a hopeless romantic. 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 . Martin moved into the apartment Sherry was sharing with her roommate and lifelong friend, Samantha, who had a son of her own. 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. 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. Source: ABC News "It was like another country," Henry later said. She had met her true love. Henry Hill died of a heart attack in 2012 eight years after On the Run was written. On her way home, Sherry mulled over what she had just discovered a massive blow to the bubble she was (sort of) living in. Read an excerpt. She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. 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.. As Sherry started cutting Janets curly blond hair, the two chatted you know, a typical salon conversation. I married her under the name Scott, Hill told Karen. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.Hill testified against his former Mafia associates, resulting in 50 convictions, including those of caporegime (captain) Paul Vario and fellow associate James Burke . All he said was that he was writing about his life back in New York. Profile. ', And when Hill turned up later he found his two wives in the home he shared with Karen. To make it worse, the son, Michael, was busing tables at El Toreador, where he saw his dad with his drinking buddies. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. Thats how their life together started, nightclubs and pistol-whippings. They were acquitted in that case. I had a few fancy birthday parties after that one clowns, magicians, ponies, the whole thing. Just like with the witness program, Hill assumed hed get away with it. Please enjoy this small glimpse into the life of a mobster/father that my family and I are able to share. After their divorce, he remarried and had another child. 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. Although he was convicted on drug charges stemming from his 1987 arrest, the FBI and prosecutors pleaded with the court to release him. Wide-eyed and jaw on the floor would be correct. She wiped the tears from her eyes and streaks of mascara from her cheeks. I am a Teacher who started creating online content for my students from 2016 so that they can get access to free knowledge online. Wed 13 Jun 2012 11.51 EDT 50 Henry Hill has died - of natural causes. Under the witness protection program, they and their. They eloped not long after my dad beat up Ted, and moved in with my grandparents.

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