By then, he and Karen had divorced, and he was now married to a woman named Kelly in California. At the same time Hill was being followed by a private investigator called Janet. It was an incident which made the bond she shared with Henry stronger. She was leading an ordinary life at that time and was working at a New York dental office. 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 and Hill eventually parted ways, last living together in Rockville Centre. She was, however, a private detective. And then my mom told me he was going away. 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. 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. All rights reserved. Of course, not. He even bragged about his double life to his friends. Both were in shock over what they were each hearing. He ran up huge bogus tabs at his own restaurant, The Suite, on stolen credit cards. That, and Hills personal involvement in a drug ring, meant the feds were on to him. He told her that he had thought about it and he only wanted to be married three days of the week. Second son of John Aldersey (c Sherry threw all my clothes out of her second-story bedroom window right into a pile of snow. But Hill, aka Marty, was bored, reckless, and started hustling more and more. The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. Sherry, unwittingly a target, was Janets path to Hill. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. He started groping her in the front seat and my mom told him to stop but he didnt so she slapped him. Sign Up. Henry Hill, Karen, Gregg, Gina. I dont know how long wed lived there before my mom told me Dad was leaving. Oct. 14, 2004, 4:51 AM PDT Few areas of. Dont you ever f***ing come back here! she screamed. While Henry . 'Isaid, "You know, I hope that's not a red flag, but there's something kind of creepy about him."'. She ended up seeing Hill one last time (she has always called him Martin). My father thought it was funny, eating at Godfathers Pizza, and maybe it was funny, Gregg wrote. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. His notorious smile kept the girls from asking any further questions. 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. 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). Her roommate ran into him in town. In the film, Karen Hill was portrayed as a woman with a sense of rationalizing everything her husband Henry had done. For the third time in a year and a half, the Hills were moved again. 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 What was once a general underlying anxiety was now full-fledged panic. I wondered how long it would be before I could wrap my arms around his neck and feel the smooth leather of his blazer or smell his Paco Rabanne cologne lingering in the apartment after he left to go to The Suite. In recent times however he ventured out in public more opening a restaurant called Wiseguys, launching his own brand of spaghetti sauce and appearing on US TV talking about gangster movies. 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. Wide-eyed and jaw on the floor would be correct. As for Nick, the co-writer, he knew of the danger of his involvement with the mobster. I am a Teacher who started creating online content for my students from 2016 so that they can get access to free knowledge online. Associated Press. 'The electricity during those months was just absolutely volatile, just screaming,' Kellum toldPearl and Nichols. Not long into their marriage, his behavior grew more erratic. 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. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. Henry Hills dead. She really did assume that Hill was dead, with all the drugs and drinking and wild lifestyle he ran. That gangster, shed say, only shed spit out the words. 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. All he said was that he was writing about his life back in New York. 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. They started double dating (with Vivian and her husband) and Hill always made an impression with his 100-dollar tips. The two women who were married to the same man talked. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent adventures. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. Anders would later throw him out of their home, screaming: 'Don't you ever f***ing come back here.'. What that meant was that the Church offered legal provisions for one-party annulments under certain circumstances. Due to his numerous crimes while in witness protection, the family was expelled from the program in the early 1990s. But Janet was a professional (albeit only 25 years old) and had a job to do. He would stay out all night, and then my mom and grandma would get into terrible arguments. 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. Whenever she drove, it was like she was being chased, speeding down back streets and constantly checking her mirrors. 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. 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. The Feds also changed the familys last name again: this time to Scott. As a host and someone who has been in that world, Tony Delvecchio wont let Henry Hill off the hook so easy. My dad had a dangerous side too, and I think Mom liked that, the whole outlaw mystique. At first, he was happy to hear the news. I was never so scared in my life, Sherry later recalled. Not much later, Karen returned to the house to scream at Sherry and demand that she sign the papers. My father had a hard time in school because he was dyslexic he didnt learn to read until he was sent to prison, and he still cant recite the alphabet without singing that song kindergarteners learn and he had a harder time at home because of his troubles at school. I wanted to visit my dad right away. I was in first grade at P.S. I had a much different childhood than most children, for starters, I and my brother . 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. Finding steady work at a local morning show in Seattle, she moved to the city. My father was one of them. She knew something wasnt right. I couldnt help but stare back and wonder what they must be thinking: New York hood on the run from the Mob.. 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. Back in Washington, Sherry had to get back to work. It was magic, Sherry recalled. Source: ABC News "It was like another country," Henry later said. Sherry refused to sign them. Hide Self (2 credits) 2021 Narco Wars (TV Series documentary) Self - Henry Hill's Daughter. But I wasnt in a laughing mood. 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. The Hills werent given a choice of where to live, so they ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. "One of the most painful things I ever did was leave my mother and my sister. They patted me on the back, they took me in, they gave me money. Im not making excuses for him, only trying to explain it the way he explained it to me. My mom had a lot of things on her mind that day. Henry Hill was an FBI informant whose life was immortalized by the 1990 movie Goodfellas, where he was played by Ray Liotta. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. Ever since, Id suffered migraines, maybe once a week or so. He told others that he was an insurance investigator for arson cases (completely fake, but he had some experience with torching places down). Most girls would have been terrified at a similar situation if they had to find their man covered in blood and holding a gun. But that only pushed my father closer to the men at the cabstand. Sherry wasnt going to sign anything without an attorney. 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. 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. In 1955, Hill began to warm up to Paul Vario by running some errands for the mafioso at Vario's meat stores,. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent . When Hill (played by Ray Liotta) said that Karen (played by Lorraine Bracco) looked just like Elizabeth Taylor, Sherry felt chills down her spine as Hill had used the same line with her. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. Twice Karen is said to have attacked Anders, who told Pearl and Nichols: 'I was never so scared in my life.'. See Photos. 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. 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. We were living in the Fairview, a luxury high-rise right across the highway from Flushing Meadows, in Queens. By I had a few fancy birthday parties after that one clowns, magicians, ponies, the whole thing. She was crying just a little. All I knew was that my father was in trouble, and I resented him for it. Under the witness protection program, they and their. Goodfellas didn't leave Henry's personal life behind and included his wife, Karen Hill (Lorraine Bracco), in the story. In the end he died at a hospital . Charlie Lankston For Dailymail.com He and his family were put under witness protection. 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. She had met her true love. And again, Sherry escaped. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. See Photos. But under witness protection, everything changed. He had a hard enough time obeying the law, let alone my grandma. 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. Lets get married today, he told her. With this, Karen went into panic mode. I guess I had my dads charm. - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia (2021) . So if I got a migraine in the car, sometimes Id have to hang my head out the window to vomit. The firm represented Jimmy Burke, Hills former Mob boss, a man who wanted him dead. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. Burke wanted Janet to find Hill and get as much dirt as on the governments star witness to discredit his testimony. She then dragged him out of the bed by the crotch and beat him with a telephone. 'He kind of slinked in and didn't make good eye contact when I was introduced,' she told Pearl and Nichols. Once a migraine started, I was done for the day. Hes MY husband, Sherry told her. Thats no way for a married man to behave! So my parents moved in and out, depending on how much money they had. As a result, the state took away their son. Hill was now going by the name Martin Lewis. Married to a mobster, Karen tried to maintain any form of normalcy in her chaotic life. Ten years after their wedding Hill called Anders, who has now also changed her name from Sherry to Scarlett. Of particular interest to Janet, was Sherrys recent marriage to Martin. But the family were still taken out of the witness protection program 'based upon continued arrests and breaches of security'. My dad tried to make my grandma happy. When they said their goodbyes, he kissed her hand and said, Ill love you forever.. @gina.hill.50552338. In "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood," Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of "Goodfellas" mobster Henry Hill. It felt like she was being interrogated. 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 . 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. 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. 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'. The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. 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. She managed to flee by car. - Episode dated 11 January 2005 (2005) . 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. Sherry needed to keep her son safe. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. Karen immediately called Henry. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. He was busy, after all, writing a book under contract for Simon & Schuster. Their design and construction work history include an array of governmental, institutional, commercial, and private-sector projects. It is not known where she is now. Hill later did a 180, claiming that Sherry was never pregnant, and they were never even married. In the fall of 1981, Hill walked into El Toreador, his favorite spot where he found both of his vices in one package. She knew nothing about who Martin Lewis really was about his double life, his wife and two teenage kids. Karen Hill eventually confessed to her daughter Gina that it was the fascination and glamour of the criminal lifestyle that attracted her to Henry. He was eventually removed from the general inmate population. But I definitely remember the Fairview. 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. The man who Anders knew as the charming and charismatic Martin was in fact a married mafia informant with a large target on his back, who had a wife and two children living just a few miles from where he and his second spouse met. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. It helps, but is not necessary, to have read Wiseguy (I haven't) or seen Goodfellas (I have, multiple times). Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. Henry Hill, an associate in the . I was the best Mob informant [theyd] ever get, he later boasted. Gram probably knew it was stolen, but she never asked, so my dad never had to answer. Despite the obvious cons of being married to a con, she still loved him and had false hope that it would work out. Uncle Paulie let us use his car once, a big cream-colored Lincoln Town Car that rode like it was on a cloud. Karen is believed to be alive and running her own business today. Still, under the creepiness there was something magnetic about Sherrys new beau. 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. She had been hired a New York law firm representingformer mob boss, Jimmy Burke. When a down-on-his-luck basketball scout finds a potential superstar in Spain, he sets out to prove they both have what it takes to make it in the . The mobster, who died at the age of 69 in 2012, assumed varying cover stories during his time in witness protection. Martin was like a dad to the two boys, always giving them quarters for the arcades and making them laugh at his dirty jokes. The newspaper article on this blog is the very same one that my father stumbled upon to find the Cabstand job that started his segway into the mafia life. In 1980 Hill left the life, entered the witness protection program and testified against the mob. Few areas of American culture have been more falsely glamorized than the mafia. 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. I came back, and I had a second chance, he told her. No one asked why it was so urgent for him to leave the country. The driver looked a few years older than her, weathered but attractive. Your father did some things he shouldnt have done, is how shed put it. When my parents first got married, in 1965, they lived with my grandparents, my moms parents, in Valley Stream, on Long Island. First things first: she had to get her husbands marriage to Sherry dissolved. 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. 00:44 GMT 27 May 2022. Conway spent 1972-1978 in prison for beating up a gambler in Tampa, Florida, and Hill was held at a separate . 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. So it's cool.'. Sherry was a hopeless romantic. 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. Written with Sean Flynn, the siblings tell their story of life with a mobster father and the realities of being in witness protection. The scar on my mothers face never completely healed. Theyre not going to miss this little hairdresser from Bellevue, theyre going to come in and blow you away, he told her. 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. 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 even converted to Judaism, got circumcised and everything; my grandma made a little tent for the sheets when he was recuperating so his sore parts would be protected. 21:30 GMT 26 May 2022 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. She wiped the tears from her eyes and streaks of mascara from her cheeks. For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. I just married him. But Karen repeated herself: No, hes my husband. Thats when Sherry said, We need to talk. Sherry followed the car to the familys ranch-style home. I dont want anything to do with you! she yelled when she saw him. 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. Find your friends on Facebook. Sherry accepted his apology. Nobody said anything to him, Gregg wrote. Easy money wasnt the only thing that wet his whistle. Gina flew to Florida, and although Justin was already in a foster home, Gina was able to obtain custody. Profile. @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2 }. He ran numbers and sold bootlegged cigarettes out of his car. The couple had two kids Gregg and Gina. Lisa, of Italian-American descent, shared a Malibu home with Hill (who was portrayed . To Sherry, she looked like a young Katharine Hepburn. The details of my fathers line of work were sketchy to me when I was eight. To make it worse, the son, Michael, was busing tables at El Toreador, where he saw his dad with his drinking buddies. His fights with Sherry (Im not your maid or your mommy!) were followed by make-up sex. Read an excerpt. He told Sherry of the Thoroughbreds he owned and raced and showed her a photo of a recent victory. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. 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. Just like with the witness program, Hill assumed hed get away with it. Several sources, including Alchetron, say that Karen runs her own business, but that may only be speculation. 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. Copyright 2004 by Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. She even ended her friendship with Samantha, whom Hill told her he slept with one night (he never did). But nobody got hurt, and those bastards just kept coming after him until they convicted him of something.. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. The born and bred New Yorkers were now hosting impromptu polo matches in their fields. They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. QUICK FACTS Birth Year:. The rest of the book details how Hill kept on breaking the rules of the governments Witness Protection Program, and as a result, the Feds had to keep re-locating Hills family to different locations to keep them safe. The Hill kids were struggling too. The small and striking brunette, 31, was a beautician who grew up around horses and knew her way around the track. The truth was, as I found out later, somebody did get hurt. My mother always brought a big bag jammed with all kinds of stuff. That was my mom, trying to make something very big sound very small. I cant get married today. With Janets help, Sherry sued Hill for compensation of the money he siphoned off from her when they were married. 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. Thats how he always explained it connections. Like the time the pavers showed up with a truckload of asphalt to blacktop my grandmas driveway. As for what he told his buddies at the bar, his cover was classic: he worked for the CIA. 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 . She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Hill immediately got drunk and started cursing out loud in front of the local yokels. Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. One day, Sherry saw a woman in the same car her Martin drove, a beat-up green Ford Pinto. Hed say, Whaddya want, Princess? and Id say, Barbies swimming pool! or something like that, and the next day or the day after, hed bring it home. Those who knew her well say that shes surrounded by nature, which makes her happy. Watch a rare interview with one of the most famous wiseguys of all time Henry Hill,ofGoodfellas fame. And Hill didnt just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. This is Henry Hill. She told the voice on the phone, No you arent. 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