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Henry Hill wrote in his 1994 book Gangsters and Goodfellas that Tommy DeSimone tried to rape Karen while Hill was in jail. [6] Karen was meanwhile having an affair with Vario. After DeSimone attempted to rape Karen, [ 7 ] one theory is that Vario reportedly took revenge by telling the Gambino crime family that DeSimone was the one who killed ...
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).
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.
“The most important part of that scene for Karen Hill was, yes she realized who [Henry] was,” Bracco tells Yahoo Entertainment during a conversation about her new HGTV series, My Big Italian ...
As Karen Hill, wife of Ray Liotta’s ascendent mobster in Martin Scorsese’s genre-defining 1990 crime classic, Bracco secured her own small but eternal place in film history.
In 1969, Hill began an affair with Linda Coppociano behind Karen's back and invested the profits of his crimes into purchasing a restaurant/lounge called The Suite. It was there that, on June 11, 1970, Burke and DeSimone murdered William Bentvena (also known as William "Billy Batts" Devino), a made man with the Gambino crime family and a close ...
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[full citation needed] In 1994, Hill, in his book Gangsters and Goodfellas, gave an expanded story of the events leading up to DeSimone's death, which was in part due to DeSimone's attempted rape of Hill's wife, Karen. [17] Two theories about DeSimone's alleged murder and murderer(s) exist from mob "insiders".