That is where this book by Gregg and Gina Hill comes into play. Hill teamed up with journalist and writer Nick Pileggi on the tome, which documented the time he had spent working in the mafia underworld in New York City, from the horrific 'whackings' he witnessed to his eventual decision to rat on his fellow gangsters in a desperate attempt to save himself. 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. Hills prediction was right: it was a bestseller. Read an excerpt. That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. We moved a lot when I was little. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. Disorder in the household turned into utter mayhem. In the Afterword of the On the Run Greg Scott wrote, In the 1990s, after he (Henry Hill) squandered whatever money he made off the book and the movie, he was in and out of prison on an assortment of charges and parole violations. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. And she did it with style, too, riding her horses in heels and white clothes. This is one of the menus in my father's restaurant. 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. Ted was taken aback by Karen's behavior, and he gave up the attempt to force her. Book Review On the Run by Gregg and GinaHill. 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). I dont know how long wed lived there before my mom told me Dad was leaving. My dad tried to make my grandma happy. 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. To make it worse, the son, Michael, was busing tables at El Toreador, where he saw his dad with his drinking buddies. The private detective had been hired by a New York law firm to look into Henry Hill, who was rumored to be in Washington. Isnt that special?. See Photos. Hed been locked up a few times since Id been born, once for seventeen months; my mom took me to visit him in the Nassau County jail when I was about four. Then he went back to Karen and handed over the gun to her and told her to hide it. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. While he was worried about making any disturbances at work, his dad would be getting hammered at the bar. 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. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood is the authors' account of their childhood as the son and daughter of Henry Hill, the infamous mobster and informant whose story was the basis of Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and the movie Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese.. 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. Brown, the former owner of the Boston Celtics who bought KFC from Colonel Sanders and became the governor of Kentucky. He told her that he had thought about it and he only wanted to be married three days of the week. 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. She was born in New York and raised in the Five Towns area of . But somewhere deep down, beneath her gullibility, was the womans intuition. 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. Twice Karen is said to have attacked Anders, who told Pearl and Nichols: 'I was never so scared in my life.'. He was back off the wagon drinking, drugging risking his cover while his family did everything they could to lay low. Just a few years, she said, like a few years was a long weekend. 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. By then, he and Karen had divorced, and he was now married to a woman named Kelly in California. We had it backwards, Girl Scouts asking for cookies, almost like a scam. When Hill showed up to find all of his stuff buried under snow, he raised all hell. 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 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. 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. 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.. But he didnt try hard enough. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. In 1981, he was arrested for getting into a fight with some woman, and a month later for passing bad checks. One time, his dad even pulled a gun on a cook. Sherry was all smiles and all ears. How a man could do so much harm to his own family is shocking; even sickening. And so, she pulled Hill by the collar and dragged him to Sherrys house with papers in hand. That package was a woman named Sherry Anders. 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. Excerpted from "On The Run: A Mafia Childhood." [2] Early life [ edit] 'Isaid, "You know, I hope that's not a red flag, but there's something kind of creepy about him."'. In time, I would grow to hate those words. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. ', One night the two wives are even said to have walked arm in arm into the club Hill was in. There was a point where Nick heard he might be a potential kidnapping victim in a plot to get to Hill. He told Sherry of the Thoroughbreds he owned and raced and showed her a photo of a recent victory. He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. In fact, in his 2004 bookGangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run, Hill recounted a conversation he had with a friend about his second marriage - in which he insisted that it didn't count as 'bigamy' because he had tied the knot, not as Henry Hill, but as Martin Lewis. Wed bring pillows and blankets with us, which made me self-conscious when we pulled into a truck stop or the Perkins House of Pancakes because if anyone saw us they might think we were homeless. The real-life mafia turncoat who was immortalized by late actor Ray Liotta in his breakout role in Goodfellas was a bigamist who repeatedly cheated on his wife while in witness protection, before leaving her and their children to wed a Mormon hairdresser he had known for just seven weeks. She hugged me and then left me alone. In Vancouver, Sherry and Samantha went shopping as the guys wrote. As Sherry started cutting Janets curly blond hair, the two chatted you know, a typical salon conversation. As for Nick, the co-writer, he knew of the danger of his involvement with the mobster. 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. Lets get married today, he told her. It took quite a while for the DEA officials to confirm that their target Martin Lewis was actually Henry Hill, and when the news broke, choppers were hovering over the Hill house for weeks. 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. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Mafia turncoat Henry Hill and his two children are interviewed. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. 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. Gregg, in his early teens, thoroughly hated his father and his fathers deceptive and downright mean machinations, while Gina, a few years younger, was more of a Daddys Girl, until she eventually smartened up too. 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. @gina.hill.50552338. Most girls would have been terrified, but my mom said she thought it was sexy. The man was flirting with disaster. (Ha!) 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 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. So brazen was Hill that he even wore a 'Witness Protection Program' T-shirt while dating Anders. Tony also probes Hill on the ultimate, moral penalty of terrorizing another human being, beyond the consequences of the law. 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. As they headed to Nevada for a quickie wedding, Sherry was on cloud nine. Hill went the other way, and Tony takes him to task for it. At the same time Hill was being followed by a private investigator called Janet. Most of the time the two versions are totally different. But I definitely remember the Fairview. Theyd come on fast, this stabbing, throbbing pain right behind my eyes that would spread through my whole head. Henry Hill, an associate in the . It helps, but is not necessary, to have read Wiseguy (I haven't) or seen Goodfellas (I have, multiple times). We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. Of course, not. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. And so, Hill was released on probation. Hill was sent to prison again and his book Wiseguys was released, while Anders lost their baby. The next day, Michael was fired. It's cable reimagined No. And Hill didnt just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. But Hill, aka Marty, was bored, reckless, and started hustling more and more. Gram probably knew it was stolen, but she never asked, so my dad never had to answer. Lorraine Bracco depicted Karen Hill in the film Goodfellas, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. Suddenly, a man who never knew life outside of the mob, was walking the streets as one of us. Second son of John Aldersey (c In 1980 Hill left the life, entered the witness protection program and testified against the mob. And then wed get to the prison. As for Henry Hill, he continued on his downward spiral. Jimmy Burke usually tucked a fifty in the guys shirt pocket for his trouble; thats where he got his nickname, The Gent. When Anders asked her: 'Do you know Martin Lewis?' 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. She ended up seeing Hill one last time (she has always called him Martin). 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. Kaylen replied: 'Yeah. None of them ever did, but my father did his best to rip it off. But by this point Anders was pregnant and flatly refused. He was on a mission to apologize to all those whom he had wronged in his life. Karen has remained out of the limelight since the family came out of the Witness Protection Program. This is Henry Hill. She told the voice on the phone, No you arent. Eight years old, and I had to get past an armed guard to see my father. Im not sure exactly what my mother told me hed been convicted of, but I know it wasnt the truth. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent adventures. Both were in shock over what they were each hearing. The events of their life were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. Prior to that, he had become embroiled in underworld gambling at a race track near his temporary home in Kentucky. 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. One day, Hill announced that the four of them were going on an impromptu trip to Canada immediately. Profile. Henry Hills dead. She really did assume that Hill was dead, with all the drugs and drinking and wild lifestyle he ran. 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. Their lives were far from normal. I said, You know, I hope thats not a red flag, but theres something kind of creepy about him, Vivian later shared. Visiting hours began at eight oclock in the morning, so wed either leave late the night before, around ten oclock, or early in the morning, at about three. My mother always brought a big bag jammed with all kinds of stuff. Karen got officially separated from Henry in 1989, and she filed for divorce in 1990, which got finalized in the year 2002. 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. 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. 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. And she was already pregnant with my brother. Take that, middle America. Sherry, unwittingly a target, was Janets path to Hill. All I knew was that my father was in trouble, and I resented him for it. My head hurt so bad I didnt care how I looked to anyone driving by. Still, under the creepiness there was something magnetic about Sherrys new beau. 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. He told people he worked for the government, an insurance investigator and an author. She had been hired a New York law firm representingformer mob boss, Jimmy Burke. She then dragged him out of the bed by the crotch and beat him with a telephone. Announcing his death, Hills girlfriend Lisa Casserta said he struggled with alcoholism. 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 I was in first grade at P.S. 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. Sherrys next move was breaking the bad news to her mother, who adored her son-in-law, and to her son, Kris, who was heartbroken. She was, however, a private detective. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. Gina Hill. Vivian had always been protective of Sherry, who had a knack for choosing the wrong men. There were twenty-two hundred men inside, some of the worst criminals in the federal system. He was busy, after all, writing a book under contract for Simon & Schuster. I got smacked at home, I got smacked at school, he said later. Sherry asked the woman, Do you know Martin Lewis? She replied, Yeah, hes my husband.. Maybe it was because we were so young, but my mother always told us that my father wasnt a real criminal. And Hill was everywhere she couldnt hide from him. Then the prison would rise up through the windshield, climbing above the trees like a fortress in the woods. When Hill came under federal protection, his wife, Karen, and their two children did too. 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. I had a much different childhood than most children, for starters, I and my brother . One day, Sherry saw a woman in the same car her Martin drove, a beat-up green Ford Pinto. Hill alleged that Sherry seduced him and kidnapped him (the word he used was f***-napped). Sherry went with Janet to see Goodfellas in theaters when it came out. I came back, and I had a second chance, he told her. 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. 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. Between 1955 and 1980, Hill was associated with the Lucchese crime family. The script for the film was based on the book Wise guy written by Nicholas Pileggi. 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. 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. Sherry threw all my clothes out of her second-story bedroom window right into a pile of snow. Unlike his father, Gregg adored and took special care of his children. 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. To Sherry, she looked like a young Katharine Hepburn. But the heist turned up the heat on all the guys connected with it. It was about ten years after their wedding that Sherry got a call. Although he had converted to Judaism for Karen, he was a born Catholic. As for Sherry, shes now around 70 years old and goes by Scarlett. 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 was always on the phone, walking around the house, dragging the long spiral cord behind him. When Karen found out her husband was a bigamist, Hill gave her this incredible excuse; Dont worry; it means nothing. Nearly broke, Sherry had no choice but to take her son to her hometown and move in with her parents. 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 . Related: Goodfellas True Story: The Real Life Gangster Morrie . So he grew up to be a gangster. It got to the point where one day, Hills wife picked up the phone and received a blunt warning: Tell Marty hes dead.. Hill is a design-build firm offering full multi-discipline design, construction and construction administrative services based in Jacksonville, Florida. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. Then we went up a set of wide stone steps into the building, where we got in line with everyone else who had a father or a brother or a son locked up in Lewisburg. My dad had a dangerous side too, and I think Mom liked that, the whole outlaw mystique. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. 'But I moved in with her for a short period of time; it didn't last long because I kept going home to Karen and the kids. Sherry was a hopeless romantic. Janet and two other female detectives at the agency were dubbed Charlies Angels. Just like with the witness program, Hill assumed hed get away with it. 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. 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. When I was five, my mother made a left turn into a gas station in Island Park in front of a drunk driver who was speeding. He had a few cover stories under his belt, about how he worked for the government (not so far from the truth). Reprinted by permission of Warner Books. Those who knew her well say that shes surrounded by nature, which makes her happy. 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. That night, they packed their bags and hit the road in Sherrys car with her 13-year-old son from a previous marriage. 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. 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. He was arrested again in July of that same year forpassing bad checks. His fights with Sherry (Im not your maid or your mommy!) were followed by make-up sex. They eloped not long after my dad beat up Ted, and moved in with my grandparents. 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 Bracco did not meet with Hill prior to filming. After her marriage with Henry Hill she had two children, Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. She is an American socialite, known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". Its not easy getting up on the stand, he later said of turning his back on his ex-mentors. 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. One day shes a dental assistant from a middle-class family on Long Island, and the next shes sipping from a bottle of champagne that Sammy Davis Jr. sent to Dads table at the Copa. She lost the suit and the judge even ordered her to pay Hills legal fees. He said he felt closer to God now. Gina Hill. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. Oct. 14, 2004, 4:51 AM PDT Few areas of. She walked into Sherrys home, which was unlocked, and went straight to the bedroom to find her husband sleeping. As Janet went on and on about the details of Hills secret life, more and more of the puzzle came together for Sherry. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. But she had her own anger to unleash. With nothing much that they could do, Sherry and Samantha put him in a room to sleep it off. Even though born to a middle-class family, Karen was ambitious about life, and she enjoyed the perks of marrying Henry Hill. 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. In the film, Karen Hill was portrayed as a woman with a sense of rationalizing everything her husband Henry had done. As a host and someone who has been in that world,. I feel so guilty at my life. One day, he even showed up to El Toreador in a T-shirt with the words Witness Protection Program on it. where their family surname was changed to Haynes. When they said their goodbyes, he kissed her hand and said, Ill love you forever.. 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. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. I was never so scared in my life, Sherry later recalled. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. In other words, he thought he had a permanent get out of jail free card.. He wasnt the kind of man they wanted their oldest daughter to end up with, but he could be awfully charming. 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. For the third time in a year and a half, the Hills were moved again. The Hill kids were struggling too. Uncle Paulie let us use his car once, a big cream-colored Lincoln Town Car that rode like it was on a cloud. 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. In the end he died at a hospital . We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, 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. Now that Sherry was no longer the target of her investigation, Janet started to sympathize with her and even became her friend. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. They wanted dirt on the prosecution's star witness. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. - Episode dated 11 January 2005 (2005) . Thats no way for a married man to behave! So my parents moved in and out, depending on how much money they had. It always took a little while to get past the guards. She stormed out of the house as her daughter called out to her, Mom, what are you doing?. I hated being poor, which we were since my father had gone to prison, and I hated even looking like we were poor. Ever since, Id suffered migraines, maybe once a week or so. For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. 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. What he lacked in the looks department he made up for with his charisma. She called him Morton and couldnt stop talking about him to her friends. He and his family were put under witness protection. 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