Hes a married man! Gram would scream. And Hill was everywhere she couldnt hide from him. Henry Hill, Karen, Gregg, Gina. But she had her own anger to unleash. I was in first grade at P.S. 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. The marshals in charge of keeping Hill alive were constantly shaking their heads, but Hill was a tad delusional. For a while, the four of them were like two pairs in a pod. 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. In the film, Karen Hill was portrayed as a woman with a sense of rationalizing everything her husband Henry had done. As for what he told his buddies at the bar, his cover was classic: he worked for the CIA. 220, and maybe a little precocious. At the same time Hill was being followed by a private investigator called Janet. He told me once that the wiseguys were the only people who were nice to him. The electricity during those months was just absolutely volatile, just screaming. Raised a Mormon in rural Washington, the single mom was nave, if anything. As for Sherry, shes now around 70 years old and goes by Scarlett. When my parents first got married, in 1965, they lived with my grandparents, my moms parents, in Valley Stream, on Long Island. 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. For the third time in a year and a half, the Hills were moved again. One time, his dad even pulled a gun on a cook. I looked around the apartment. My father thought it was funny, eating at Godfathers Pizza, and maybe it was funny, Gregg wrote. The creature was emaciated and neglected, so after climbing the fence and entering the property, she crept into the barn and grabbed hold of Teriyaki, the horses name. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. Henry Hill died of a heart attack in 2012 eight years after On the Run was written. He stole everything and from everyone. 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. She has two sisters, Ellen and Cheryl. It was Janet. So he grew up to be a gangster. The two women decided to make their unique situation a little more amusing. This behavior was partly out of love, and partly out of greed for the luxurious lifestyle, his criminal background gave her. Sherry was all smiles and all ears. The federal penitentiary at Lewisburg was a big beige block with a tower in the center near the front where I could see a guard with a military rifle slung over his shoulder. Log In. She knew she had to get out of Redmond her life there was poisoned. They poked through everything with their batons, and they glared at us, like we were the criminals instead of the men inside. Marty was the fun and spontaneous one, and they just wanted to go along for the ride. They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. 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. Between 1955 and 1980, Hill was associated with the Lucchese crime family. 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'. Ten years after their wedding Hill called Anders, who has now also changed her name from Sherry to Scarlett. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. 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. By the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback. Theyre not going to miss this little hairdresser from Bellevue, theyre going to come in and blow you away, he told her. Lets get married today, he told her. 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. Hill went so far as to threaten Sherry with her life if she didnt sign the divorce papers. Their lives were far from normal. This is Henry Hill. She told the voice on the phone, No you arent. My dad was always buying me dolls. 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 . The real Henry Hill talking to Karen Hill. Over the years, he would fly to New York to testify against Paul Vario and Jimmy Burke, his old accomplices. According to his son and his daughter, Henry Hill was truly a despicable man. Sherry went with Janet to see Goodfellas in theaters when it came out. She hugged me and then left me alone. 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. Wed tell people we were Girl Scouts and ask for cookies. 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. It felt like she was being interrogated. Sherry was dumbfounded. There was a reported two-million-dollar contract on his head and word was getting out that Hill was living in the Midwest. Married to a mobster, Karen tried to maintain any form of normalcy in her chaotic life. Then one of them would stick a gun in his face. There was a point where Nick heard he might be a potential kidnapping victim in a plot to get to Hill. Hes MY husband, Sherry told her. 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. That was my mom, trying to make something very big sound very small. How a man could do so much harm to his own family is shocking; even sickening. With nothing much that they could do, Sherry and Samantha put him in a room to sleep it off. The state of Florida indicted them first for kidnapping and attempted murder. Despite being under the supervision of the Feds, Hill became a violent drug addict and began dealing drugs to support his habit. In 1980 Hill left the life, entered the witness protection program and testified against the mob. The girls didnt ask questions and tried not to disturb them. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. Associated Press. He was a fish out of water but wanting to feel like himself, Hill took his family out to dinner on their first evening there at an Omaha-based chain called Godfathers Pizza. He bought a foosball table for the basement and cooked everyone hearty Italian food. All rights reserved. In the end he died at a hospital . Then he went back to Karen and handed over the gun to her and told her to hide it. At least in New York, she could hide most of the dirt behind humor and carefully placed words. Hill was the hustler not her. He violently pushed her out of his car and drove away. But under witness protection, everything changed. Sherry stared at her in disbelief this must be a mistake. She found him at the bar next door. 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. Now that the secret was out, Janet no longer had to tiptoe around. Seven weeks after that fateful night in the Mexican restaurant, Hill/Marty just came out with it. That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. 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. He was eventually removed from the general inmate population. On the Run is a terrific read, but quite disturbing. He even bragged about his double life to his friends. Nobody said anything to him, Gregg wrote. Whats my sons name? she asked him. As much as she tried to move on, Hill was always in her thoughts; she couldnt get him out of her mind. Brains, not beauty, solves cases, Janet would say in interviews. But I wasnt in a laughing mood. Wed leave at eleven oclock, sometimes even later, and drive west into Pennsylvania. Lisa, of Italian-American descent, shared a Malibu home with Hill (who was portrayed . I married her under the name Scott, Hill told Karen. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. I wanted to visit my dad right away. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. Martin moved into the apartment Sherry was sharing with her roommate and lifelong friend, Samantha, who had a son of her own. Over the next couple of years, they moved six times out to Kew Gardens, back in with my grandparents, out to Forest Hills, back to Valley Stream. I have work. It was his smile that damn smile that always worked on her. 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. Although he was convicted on drug charges stemming from his 1987 arrest, the FBI and prosecutors pleaded with the court to release him. Pistol-whipped him! In On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill. @gina.hill.50552338. 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. Despite the obvious cons of being married to a con, she still loved him and had false hope that it would work out. Hill had already beenarrested for getting into a fight with a presumed mistress when they were hidden inIndependence, Kentucky. She wiped the tears from her eyes and streaks of mascara from her cheeks. 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. It seemed like this woman knew who her husband was. 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. 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. 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. She stormed out of the house as her daughter called out to her, Mom, what are you doing?. We had it backwards, Girl Scouts asking for cookies, almost like a scam. As for Karen she divorced Hill in 1990 and it was finalized in 2002. Nearly broke, Sherry had no choice but to take her son to her hometown and move in with her parents. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. 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. Please enjoy this small glimpse into the life of a mobster/father that my family and I are able to share. It was magic, Sherry recalled. 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. Soon enough, Sherry received a phone call. I got smacked at home, I got smacked at school, he said later. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Excerpted from "On The Run: A Mafia Childhood." 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. Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. Initially after their marriage, Karen and Henry moved in with Karen's parents at their home in Lawrence, New York. Youre too good for me, he told her one night, drunk. At least, at first. Our trips to Lewisburg were always miserable. Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two, Sherry announced. Few areas of American culture have been more falsely glamorized than the mafia. 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. Copyright 2004 by Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. There were twenty-two hundred men inside, some of the worst criminals in the federal system. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. And then wed get to the prison. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. On New Years Eve, he didnt show up for, leaving her crying for hours. But then federal prosecutors indicted them for extortion, which they could do because my father had crossed state lines. She lost the suit and the judge even ordered her to pay Hills legal fees. Hill, who died in LA in 2012, was taken into witness protection with his wife Karen and their two children, Gina and Gregg, in 1980, after helping the FBI to arrest several of his fellow gangsters. 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. So it's cool.'. 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. It got to the point where one day, Hills wife picked up the phone and received a blunt warning: Tell Marty hes dead.. As for Sherry, she went back to the Hill home to take back the horse she had sent for Hills daughter. She usually fell back on a gambling charge if she got specific at all. Worse, he behaved like it was some mobster joint back in New York City. Hill was even making collect phone calls from Omaha to New York. Prior to that, he had become embroiled in underworld gambling at a race track near his temporary home in Kentucky. Anders told Karen, who decided his second marriage needed to be dissolved immediately. All I knew was that my father was in trouble, and I resented him for it. Sherry rode the white, bony horse bareback into the night, crying the whole way. There was one day when Sherry ran into Karen her fellow survivor and had a chat about their husbands past infidelities. 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. Those who knew her well say that shes surrounded by nature, which makes her happy. 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. He was 13 and his sister Gina was just 11 and in only seconds their lives were changed forever. She ended up seeing Hill one last time (she has always called him Martin). That was my dads greatest asset, his charm. Kaylen Martin would frequently get into her old Ford Pinto and drive, just to get away from it all. At the house, Sherry went upstairs and tossed all of Hills stuff out the window his expensive pots, his Armani suits all of it. @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2 }. 'The electricity during those months was just absolutely volatile, just screaming,' Kellum toldPearl and Nichols. See Photos. And Hill didnt just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. In 1981, he was arrested for getting into a fight with some woman, and a month later for passing bad checks. So, he became an informant. She had been hired a New York law firm representingformer mob boss, Jimmy Burke. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". 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. He was always on the phone, walking around the house, dragging the long spiral cord behind him. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. That package was a woman named Sherry Anders. In On the Run we discover that in 1980, after being shuttled from one hotel to another for several months while the Feds got as much information as they could from Hill, the family ended up on the outskirts of Omaha, Neb. Secrets & Wives Truly*Adventurous Medium. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. When Hill came under federal protection, his wife, Karen, and their two children did too. Most of the time the two versions are totally different. He wrote about the heist in a detailed form and from his point of view. 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. That gangster, shed say, only shed spit out the words. 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.. The decision was rash, but so was their whirlwind relationship. He started groping her in the front seat and my mom told him to stop but he didnt so she slapped 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 Theyd come on fast, this stabbing, throbbing pain right behind my eyes that would spread through my whole head. Anders said: 'Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two. And here comes my second wife, he bragged when she walked up to him. where their family surname was changed to Haynes. Hill's arrest in 1980 by Nassau County narcotics officers officially marked the end of his life in the Lucchese family. In time, I would grow to hate those words. Charlie Lankston For Dailymail.com Most girls would have been terrified at a similar situation if they had to find their man covered in blood and holding a gun. I couldnt help but stare back and wonder what they must be thinking: New York hood on the run from the Mob.. 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. Not much later, Karen returned to the house to scream at Sherry and demand that she sign the papers. 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.. Their divorce was finalized in 2002. We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. See Photos. 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 knew something wasnt right. Im probably leaving out a few things too, like arson. But Hill was still letting himself into Sherrys house at odd hours, one time writing I love you, Sherry Amour, HH on the bathroom mirror in lipstick. Some of the other thefts were easier: Theyd just walk into a garage and steal the truck, or theyd buy off the driver so hed leave his keys in the cab when he stopped for coffee. 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. 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. 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. She was crying just a little. The guards made her take everything out and then they searched the bag with a baton and a miniature flashlight. The next morning, Karen noticed he wasnt home. Karen found this incident so insulting that she angrily slapped him. Eight years old, and I had to get past an armed guard to see my father. It helps, but is not necessary, to have read Wiseguy (I haven't) or seen Goodfellas (I have, multiple times). While Henry . When I was older, my mom told me that that was part of what attracted her to my dad the glitz, the way he could get them a front-row table at the Empire Club or the Copacabana, the way he seemed to know everyone and everyone knew him. Did she know of his past, his family, his involvement as an informant? Whenever she drove, it was like she was being chased, speeding down back streets and constantly checking her mirrors. Dont you ever f***ing come back here! she screamed. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. The two women who were married to the same man talked. Hills last major job with his gang was the Lufthansa heist at John F Kennedy airport in New York in December 1978, which netted them a then-record $5.875 million. In line with his eternal luck, Hill was rescued by the FBI. Just a few years, she said, like a few years was a long weekend. 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. When Hill and Anders split Janet approached his second wife for help. I knew it was a bad sign when we needed to be towed up the exit ramp of the parking lot at the Howard Johnsons Motor Lodge. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. 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. 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. 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 . But when he drank, he was a loudmouth, which was how Karen heard about the pregnancy. It was about ten years after their wedding that Sherry got a call. She is an American socialite, known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill. It was titled, On The Run: A Mafia Childhood. I was already used to my dad being away. One day, Hill announced that the four of them were going on an impromptu trip to Canada immediately. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. 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. My father would do almost anything to make a score. My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. When Anders asked her: 'Do you know Martin Lewis?' Daughter of Henry Hill. 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. 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. She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. 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. Henry immigrated to Gloucester county, Virginia, where, in 1651, he married Susan Ann Newman, born in 1630, in Blackburn, Lancashire England, a daughter of Reverend Thomas Newman Unfortunately, Hill later discovered the only reason the girl married Hill was because she thought he had money. Ever since, Id suffered migraines, maybe once a week or so. - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia (2021) . The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. 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