Things took a nasty turn when Henry received a ten-year sentence for extortion in 1974. She knew she had to get out of Redmond her life there was poisoned. But Karen thought it was a sexy thing to do. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Finding steady work at a local morning show in Seattle, she moved to the city. 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. She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. But eventually, Sherry needed to head back to work to make money. 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. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. Tony also probes Hill on the ultimate, moral penalty of terrorizing another human being, beyond the consequences of the law. All rights reserved. He stayed out all night, and in the morning he hired a limousine to take him to prison. Janet and a few members of her team used disguises when necessary; they staked out Sherrys home, salon, and the places she ate and shopped at. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. Their dad was Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film. We had it backwards, Girl Scouts asking for cookies, almost like a scam. Although he was convicted on drug charges stemming from his 1987 arrest, the FBI and prosecutors pleaded with the court to release him. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. According to Gina and Gregg, Hill spent his days at the racetrack gambling and his nights drinking. As for Sherry, shes now around 70 years old and goes by Scarlett. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. 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. 'I'm Marty Lewis, and this is my first wife. 'No, that's Henry Hill who's married,' he told a confidante when told he had committed a 'major crime' by taking a second wife. Under the witness protection program, they and their. And his connections. Hill then told his wife the only reason he married the girl was because she had money. That package was a woman named Sherry Anders. When Karen found out her husband was a bigamist, Hill gave her this incredible excuse; Dont worry; it means nothing. And then my mom told me he was going away. But right to the end, he managed to stay one step ahead of the mafia assassins he long feared. She even ended her friendship with Samantha, whom Hill told her he slept with one night (he never did). 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. This behavior was partly out of love, and partly out of greed for the luxurious lifestyle, his criminal background gave her. Sherry, unwittingly a target, was Janets path to Hill. 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. 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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. Anders told Karen, who decided his second marriage needed to be dissolved immediately. Easy romance was just as enticing. Sherry would lie to herself it was the stress of a new relationship, thats all. Twice Karen is said to have attacked Anders, who told Pearl and Nichols: 'I was never so scared in my life.'. He was given a bulletproof vest to wear whenever he was with Hill, but he never wore it. Late gangster Henry Hill - who was portrayed by Liotta in Martin Scorcese's hit 1990 movie - was taken into the FBI's witness protection program with his wife Karen and their two children, Gail and Michael, in 1980 after helping to jail members of his infamous mafia gang. I have work. It was his smile that damn smile that always worked on her. The journal entry on this blog is one that my father wrote in his personal journal. My mother always brought a big bag jammed with all kinds of stuff. 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. 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 . 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 She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Their divorce was finalized in 2002. According to his son, it was his fathers decision to get them out of Nebraska. Karen seems to relish the brand-new Buick Riveras in the driveway and closets which were always bursting with trending expensive clothes. Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two, Sherry announced. Sherry went with Janet to see Goodfellas in theaters when it came out. It began to snow and soon enough, all of his stuff was buried under the white. Yet again, he was saved by the government. The born and bred New Yorkers were now hosting impromptu polo matches in their fields. 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. In "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood," Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of "Goodfellas" mobster Henry Hill. There was a reported two-million-dollar contract on his head and word was getting out that Hill was living in the Midwest. 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. With this, Karen went into panic mode. 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. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. As a host and someone who has been in that world, Tony Delvecchio wont let Henry Hill off the hook so easy. 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 The mobster, who died at the age of 69 in 2012, assumed varying cover stories during his time in witness protection. They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. Your father did some things he shouldnt have done, is how shed put it. See Photos. 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. 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. In another jaw-on-the-floor moment, Hill drank himself dumb as he watched his wives have a hell of a night on the dance floor. That was my mom, trying to make something very big sound very small. Of particular interest to Janet, was Sherrys recent marriage to Martin. where their family surname was changed to Haynes. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. But under witness protection, everything changed. Karen today continues to use an alias to protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. His fights with Sherry (Im not your maid or your mommy!) were followed by make-up sex. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. And Hill didnt just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. 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. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). Uncle Paulie let us use his car once, a big cream-colored Lincoln Town Car that rode like it was on a cloud. But then federal prosecutors indicted them for extortion, which they could do because my father had crossed state lines. She was, however, a private detective. At the same time Hill was being followed by a private investigator called Janet. Although he had converted to Judaism for Karen, he was a born Catholic. She then dragged him out of the bed by the crotch and beat him with a telephone. For example, there is a scene where a neighbor named Ted tried to force himself on Karen when she was dating Henry. When Sherry said no, she got violent again. The next day, Michael was fired. He wrote about the heist in a detailed form and from his point of view. And so, she pulled Hill by the collar and dragged him to Sherrys house with papers in hand. His thriving business made the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer he was seen in a photo with a perm and a fake mustache, clearly trying to escape the photographers frame. Janet, who thought Hill was a Shmuck, noticed the terror in Sherrys eyes when they met. What that meant was that the Church offered legal provisions for one-party annulments under certain circumstances. Healthy Lifestyle Coach at Kyani Nitro Nutrition GinaHill.Kyani.com. By Finally, Karen figured out a way to dissolve Hills marriage to Sherry. It helped that a bona fide journalist named Nick Pileggi whom he introduced as his co-writer would come by often. To Sherry, she looked like a young Katharine Hepburn. Hill had already beenarrested for getting into a fight with a presumed mistress when they were hidden inIndependence, Kentucky. Brown, the former owner of the Boston Celtics who bought KFC from Colonel Sanders and became the governor of Kentucky. Lorraine Bracco depicted Karen Hill in the film Goodfellas, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. No one asked why it was so urgent for him to leave the country. He was on a mission to apologize to all those whom he had wronged in his life. Lets get married today, he told her. 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. But the family were still taken out of the witness protection program 'based upon continued arrests and breaches of security'. She said Hill had recently made his peace with his family, but I dont think he ever got over his demons. I said, You know, I hope thats not a red flag, but theres something kind of creepy about him, Vivian later shared. Karen first met her future husband, Henry through mutual friends. He still wore his expensive suits and shiny loafers, but he had nowhere to go except to the store for milk. But he didnt try hard enough. Between 1955 and 1980, Hill was associated with the Lucchese crime family. 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. Im done with Sherry, she said in an interview. The marshals in charge of keeping Hill alive were constantly shaking their heads, but Hill was a tad delusional. Read an excerpt. They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. Henry grabbed Ted by the hair, took out a gun from his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. Oct. 14, 2004, 4:51 AM PDT Few areas of. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. There would be a guard at the main entrance, an enormous black steel gate, waiting with a massive key, just like in the old movies. Hill grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he admired local mafiosi, including Paul Vario, a capo in the Luchesse crime family. 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