According to his son, it was his fathers decision to get them out of Nebraska. But by this point Anders was pregnant and flatly refused. I was never so scared in my life, Sherry later recalled. Prior to that, he had become embroiled in underworld gambling at a race track near his temporary home in Kentucky. And here comes my second wife, he bragged when she walked up to him. Karen today continues to use an alias to protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. As usual, Hill was drunk. As Janet went on and on about the details of Hills secret life, more and more of the puzzle came together for Sherry. Sherry refused to sign them. Wed leave at eleven oclock, sometimes even later, and drive west into Pennsylvania. It was magic, Sherry recalled. 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). For as much as Dad might have irritated my grandma, she wasnt one to throw her daughter into the street. Hill then told his wife the only reason he married the girl was because she had money. The electricity during those months was just absolutely volatile, just screaming. Raised a Mormon in rural Washington, the single mom was nave, if anything. 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. 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 began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. It was only a matter of time until Hill landed in prison. 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.. Janet, who became a good friend of Sherrys, helped the scorned woman find some closure by tracking Hill down. He still wore his expensive suits and shiny loafers, but he had nowhere to go except to the store for milk. The next day, Michael was fired. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". Read an excerpt. Initially after their marriage, Karen and Henry moved in with Karen's parents at their home in Lawrence, New York. They started double dating (with Vivian and her husband) and Hill always made an impression with his 100-dollar tips. The firm represented Jimmy Burke, Hills former Mob boss, a man who wanted him dead. My father was one of them. But even her most suspicious friends found something appealing about this Martin guy. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". Watch a rare interview with one of the most famous wiseguys of all time Henry Hill, of "Goodfellas" fame. Dont worry about it, one of them told Gram. 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. If I had a headache, the drive was even more unbearable. They wanted more information and his testimony. Hill went the other way, and Tony takes him to task for it. For the third time in a year and a half, the Hills were moved again. 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. He kept his assumed name Scott, finished college, and then law school. Henry Hill died in 2012, but Karen is alive and well, according to her husband's former manager, says ABC News. But Janet was a professional (albeit only 25 years old) and had a job to do. Marty was the fun and spontaneous one, and they just wanted to go along for the ride. 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. Sherry wasnt going to sign anything without an attorney. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. In 1980, Hill became an FBI informant, and his testimony helped secure 50 Conviction (s), including those of mob capo (captain) Paul Vario and James . Im not sure exactly what my mother told me hed been convicted of, but I know it wasnt the truth. 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. He bragged about having a Kings X a term for being exempt from the rules of a game. 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. My grandma is strict to begin with, and my dad wasnt used to following rules. His fights with Sherry (Im not your maid or your mommy!) were followed by make-up sex. Hill alleged that Sherry seduced him and kidnapped him (the word he used was f***-napped). He started groping her in the front seat and my mom told him to stop but he didnt so she slapped 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. But Hill, aka Marty, was bored, reckless, and started hustling more and more. 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. Soon, Janet was asking Sherry personal questions. She knew nothing about who Martin Lewis really was about his double life, his wife and two teenage kids. 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. '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. He had a better ride through the Pennsylvania farmlands than I ever did. Whereas Hill was doing all the wrong things, Karen went into survival mode. And then wed get to the prison. While he was worried about making any disturbances at work, his dad would be getting hammered at the bar. Her neighbor, an older man named Corkie, let Sherry and her son hide in his cabin in the woods on Lake Crescent. This behavior was partly out of love, and partly out of greed for the luxurious lifestyle, his criminal background gave her. Well, thats the alias the government allowed her to go by (she chose the name). Sherry, unwittingly a target, was Janets path to Hill. As for Sherry, she went back to the Hill home to take back the horse she had sent for Hills daughter. That night, they packed their bags and hit the road in Sherrys car with her 13-year-old son from a previous marriage. 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. He and his family were put under witness protection. Ever since the family came out of the Witness Protection Program due to various criminal activities performed by Henry while still in the program, Karen has not appeared in public much. Sherry went with Janet to see Goodfellas in theaters when it came out. Gina Hill. Take that, middle America. Isnt that special?'. He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. He stole everything and from everyone. 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. 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. For a while, the four of them were like two pairs in a pod. She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. With each move, came new identities. By then, he and Karen had divorced, and he was now married to a woman named Kelly in California. 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. And then my mom told me he was going away. 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. They wanted dirt on the prosecution's star witness. Hill later did a 180, claiming that Sherry was never pregnant, and they were never even married. The couple had two kids Gregg and Gina. But she had her own anger to unleash. The real Henry Hill talking to Karen Hill. 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. I guess I had my dads charm. Due to his numerous crimes while in witness protection, the family was expelled from the program in the early 1990s. And if he wasnt in jail, it wasnt unusual for him to go out one night and come back three mornings later. Ted was taken aback by Karen's behavior, and he gave up the attempt to force her. They were acquitted in that case. We moved a lot when I was little. She suffered a miscarriage; likely due to the incredible amount of stress she was under. 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. As Sherry started cutting Janets curly blond hair, the two chatted you know, a typical salon conversation. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. And she was already pregnant with my brother. They met up and Hill told her: 'I'll love you forever.'. 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. Charlie Lankston For Dailymail.com Wed tell people we were Girl Scouts and ask for cookies. What was once a general underlying anxiety was now full-fledged panic. [2] Early life [ edit] Janet meant real trouble for her family. 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. And she did it with style, too, riding her horses in heels and white clothes. There was one day when Sherry ran into Karen her fellow survivor and had a chat about their husbands past infidelities. He married his then-girlfriend Dawn, who was a degenerate junkie like Hill. After their divorce, he remarried and had another child. We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. In other words, he thought he had a permanent get out of jail free card.. Whenever she drove, it was like she was being chased, speeding down back streets and constantly checking her mirrors. 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. 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