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Karen B. Friedman Hill (née Friedman; 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. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. [2]
Henry Hill Jr. was born on June 11, 1943, in the New York City borough of Manhattan to Henry Hill Sr., an Irish-American electrician, and Carmela Costa, an Italian immigrant of Sicilian descent. [1] Hill claimed in the book Wiseguy that his father had emigrated from Ireland at age 12 after the death of Hill's grandfather. [2]
In 1955, Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in his working-class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates Jimmy "the Gent" Conway, an Irish-American truck hijacker and gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent.
Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress best known for her performance as psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007) and for her breakthrough role portraying Karen Hill in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas (1990).
Following his turn in Jonathan Demme’s 1986 film “Something Wild,” playing Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” was the moment that many moviegoers first discovered his complex
On the Run: A Mafia Childhood by Gregg & Gina Hill (2004) Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys...and Life on the Run by Henry Hill & Gus Russo (2005) Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi (1990) ISBN 0-671-72322-7; Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball by David Porter (2000) Lufthansa Heist by Daniel Simone and ...
Another account, told by Hill in Gangsters and Goodfellas, states that Gotti himself was the assassin, although in the presence of Agro. [full citation needed] On May 17, 2007, episode of The Howard Stern Show, Hill reaffirmed that Gotti had killed DeSimone. He also added that the death "took a long time", as Bentvena had been a personal friend ...
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