Still, under the creepiness there was something magnetic about Sherrys new beau. Gina Hill. He was busy, after all, writing a book under contract for Simon & Schuster. Therefore, exact details about them are still unavailable. But Hill, aka Marty, was bored, reckless, and started hustling more and more. Source: ABC News "It was like another country," Henry later said. They were acquitted in that case. But the heist turned up the heat on all the guys connected with it. 2022 History by Day all rights reserved, This Man Dug a Hole in His Backyard. After about twenty years together it's said that Caserta and Hill were ready to finally tie the knot and she was also at his side when died. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. So brazen was Hill that he even wore a 'Witness Protection Program' T-shirt while dating Anders. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. That, and Hills personal involvement in a drug ring, meant the feds were on to him. But right to the end, he managed to stay one step ahead of the mafia assassins he long feared. Gregg and Gina talk about life in witness protection and their book, On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. - The Mob: The Addict Who Took Down the Mafia (2021) . Years later, she admitted, It was so devastating I wanted to kill myself, to be quite honest. Slowly but surely, she moved on and started doing hair and makeup for movies and TV shows. 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'. It began to snow and soon enough, all of his stuff was buried under the white. Karen was now left to fend for herself as she received no support from Henry's so-called gangster associates. Between 1955 and 1980, Hill was associated with the Lucchese crime family. He told people he worked for the government, an insurance investigator and an author. Henry grabbed Ted by the hair, took out a gun from his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. She has two sisters, Ellen and Cheryl. G.M. I said, You know, I hope thats not a red flag, but theres something kind of creepy about him, Vivian later shared. I was the best Mob informant [theyd] ever get, he later boasted. Now that Sherry was no longer the target of her investigation, Janet started to sympathize with her and even became her friend. The mobster, who died at the age of 69 in 2012, assumed varying cover stories during his time in witness protection. Log In. When my parents first got married, in 1965, they lived with my grandparents, my moms parents, in Valley Stream, on Long Island. Ted was taken aback by Karen's behavior, and he gave up the attempt to force her. (Ha!) They would hang around the house, drinking and writing. That night, they packed their bags and hit the road in Sherrys car with her 13-year-old son from a previous marriage. Gina Hill. She said Hill had recently made his peace with his family, but I dont think he ever got over his demons. One day, Hill announced that the four of them were going on an impromptu trip to Canada immediately. Henry Hill continued to be the same reprobate he always had been. Its not easy getting up on the stand, he later said of turning his back on his ex-mentors. He stole everything and from everyone. [2] Early life [ edit] On New Years Eve, he didnt show up for, leaving her crying for hours. Karen got officially separated from Henry in 1989, and she filed for divorce in 1990, which got finalized in the year 2002. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. She had met her true love. 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. Then the prison would rise up through the windshield, climbing above the trees like a fortress in the woods. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. It seemed like this woman knew who her husband was. 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. Their dad was Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film. But by this point Anders was pregnant and flatly refused. In "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood," Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of "Goodfellas" mobster Henry Hill. One day, Sherrys nephew, a toddler, pulled her handgun out from her purse, nearly giving her sister a heart attack. Sherry was a hopeless romantic. 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. Pistol-whipped him! Believing that he had slept with Sherry the night before, she went to find her next. Karen Friedman Hill (born January 16, 1946) is an American woman best known for her involvement in the American Mafia as a result of her marriage to Henry Hill, a Lucchese crime family associate. Sherry rode the white, bony horse bareback into the night, crying the whole way. In the midst of Karens threats to Sherry over the phone, Sherry told Hill that she was pregnant. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. She knew that she will go places and can lead an extravagant life if she married him. Seven weeks after that fateful night in the Mexican restaurant, Hill/Marty just came out with it. Several sources, including Alchetron, say that Karen runs her own business, but that may only be speculation. The script for the film was based on the book Wise guy written by Nicholas Pileggi. 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. 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. GREGG: Wed be up all night, I would be, anyway, riding in the front seat to help my mother stay awake. Now that the secret was out, Janet no longer had to tiptoe around. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. One time, his dad even pulled a gun on a cook. 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. The pain was so bad Id get nauseous, couldnt keep anything down, not even aspirin. The couple had two kids Gregg and Gina. Gregg ultimately became a successful attorney. where their family surname was changed to Haynes. In On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, Gregg and Gina Hill tell their story of life as the children of Goodfellas mobster Henry Hill. Sherry wasnt going to sign anything without an attorney. Second son of John Aldersey (c But I definitely remember the Fairview. It always took a little while to get past the guards. People named Gina Hill. 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. In the end he died at a hospital . He told her that he recently dealt with a medical crisis and almost died. Lorraine Bracco performed so stunningly as Karen Hill in the movie that she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As they headed to Nevada for a quickie wedding, Sherry was on cloud nine. The details of my fathers line of work were sketchy to me when I was eight. After hearing about the incident, Henry decided to take revenge. His romance with Anders imploded just months after it had begun when his first wife Karen, who was living under the alias Kaylen, learned of their affair and confronted her husband's new spouse. Hill later did a 180, claiming that Sherry was never pregnant, and they were never even married. The man was flirting with disaster. 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. Like a moth to a flame, Hill found his way to make money. 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. According to his son and his daughter, Henry Hill was truly a despicable man. After their first date, the two were inseparable. My dad was always buying me dolls. The book covers both the remembrances of the Hill children prior to their entry into WITSEC and their subsequent adventures. To make it worse, the son, Michael, was busing tables at El Toreador, where he saw his dad with his drinking buddies. 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. 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. That gangster, shed say, only shed spit out the words. Sherry had no clue. It was magic, Sherry recalled. Actor: Sinatra Club. This is Henry Hill. She told the voice on the phone, No you arent. 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. Hill had already beenarrested for getting into a fight with a presumed mistress when they were hidden inIndependence, Kentucky. 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. Henry Hill, Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) was a New York City mobster. 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. Wide-eyed and jaw on the floor would be correct. Heres wife Number One and wife Number Two, Sherry announced. He immediately answered: Kris Gregory Cowin. The two met at a diner in Everett, Washington. Due to his numerous crimes while in witness protection, the family was expelled from the program in the early 1990s. Gina Hill. It's cable reimagined No. Uncle Paulie let us use his car once, a big cream-colored Lincoln Town Car that rode like it was on a cloud. She was in her mid-twenties and said her name was Janet. 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 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. Hes MY husband, Sherry told her. 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. He would stay out all night, and then my mom and grandma would get into terrible arguments. 'I'm Marty Lewis, and this is my first wife. I am a Teacher who started creating online content for my students from 2016 so that they can get access to free knowledge online. Today, Karen and her two children, Gina and Gregg continue to use an alias to protect their identity. 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. And Hill didn't just bring along his wife and kids; he tried to take two of his mistresses into protection, too. But she had her own anger to unleash. Prior to that, he had become embroiled in underworld gambling at a race track near his temporary home in Kentucky. He was always on the phone, walking around the house, dragging the long spiral cord behind him. All rights reserved. He didnt make eye contact with her, she recalled. '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 asked the woman, Do you know Martin Lewis? She replied, Yeah, hes my husband.. But once the voice on the phone started suing the F word, she started to reconsider. See Photos. 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. 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. 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 She recounted how, just seven weeks after they met for the first time, Hill suggested that they 'get married today'. 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. Usually, though, we were in our beat-up Oldsmobile Toronado, the car we got after my father accidentally dropped a lit cigarette in the front seat of our 1969 Chrysler Newport, causing it to go up in flames. Gram probably knew it was stolen, but she never asked, so my dad never had to answer. Daughter of Henry Hill. He stole, fenced, bootlegged, loan-sharked, and extorted. 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. My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. He told others that he was an insurance investigator for arson cases (completely fake, but he had some experience with torching places down). When Sherry was turning to Karen for support, she let slip the fact that a private eye had been investigating her for months. 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. It was about ten years after their wedding that Sherry got a call. Mafia turncoat Henry Hill and his two children are interviewed. That is where this book by Gregg and Gina Hill comes into play. She knew she had to get out of Redmond her life there was poisoned. To Sherry, she looked like a young Katharine Hepburn. Hills prediction was right: it was a bestseller. Her instincts proved spot on when one day an unfamiliar woman walked in to the hair salon. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. 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. My father would do almost anything to make a score. Kaylen replied: 'Yeah. Hill then told his wife the only reason he married the girl was because she had money. I got smacked at home, I got smacked at school, he said later. My father was one of them. Karen knew that Burke and his goons wanted Hill dead. Then my dad came trotting back across the street, all sweaty and red, and gave my mom the gun and told her to hide it. Hill was sent to prison again and his book Wiseguys was released, while Anders lost their baby. But then federal prosecutors indicted them for extortion, which they could do because my father had crossed state lines. Things took a nasty turn when Henry received a ten-year sentence for extortion in 1974. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. In other words, he thought he had a permanent get out of jail free card.. And like all gangsters, he acted like he owned the world. But even her most suspicious friends found something appealing about this Martin guy. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. 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