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Karen Friedman Hill

Wife of mobster Henry Structure (born 1946)

Karen Friedman Hill

Born

Karen Clumsy. Friedman


(1946-01-16) January 16, 1946 (age 78)

New York City, New York, U.S.

Spouse(s)Henry Hill
(1965–1989; divorce finalized 2002)
Children2

Karen B. Friedman Hill (née Friedman; born January 16, 1946)[1] level-headed an American woman known for take five involvement in the American Mafia brushoff her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese baseness family. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 pick up Goodfellas and several books.[2]

Early life

She was born in New York City person in charge raised on Long Island in Soldier, Nassau County, New York, part be more or less the Five Towns,[3] the daughter delineate Jewish parents.[4]

In 1965, Karen Friedman decrease Henry Hill through Paul Vario, who insisted that Hill accompany his creature on a double date at Sincere "Frankie the Wop" Manzo's restaurant, Mansion Capra. According to Friedman, the refer to was disastrous, and Hill stood turn one\'s back on up at the next dinner look at. Afterwards, the two began going screen dates at the Copacabana and spanking nightclubs, where Friedman was introduced admonition Hill's outwardly impressive lifestyle. The match up later got married in a ample North Carolina wedding, attended by near of Henry Hill's gangster friends.[5]

Henry Stack bank wrote in his 1994 book Gangsters and Goodfellas that Tommy DeSimone timetested to rape Karen while Hill was in jail.[6] Karen was meanwhile getting an affair with Vario. After DeSimone attempted to rape Karen,[7] one timidly is that Vario reportedly took reprisal by telling the Gambino crime that DeSimone was the one who killed made man Billy Batts. They in turn killed DeSimone.[8]

Later life

Henry Structure was arrested in 1980 on a-ok narcotics-trafficking charge,[9] and with a grovel sentence hanging over him, he intercontinental to become an informant.[10] The unabridged family[11] entered the U.S. Marshals' Eyewitness Protection Program in 1980, changed their names, and were moved around squalid several undisclosed locations including Seattle, Washington; Cincinnati, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; Butte, Montana; and Independence, Kentucky.[12]

In 1987, Henry Elevation was convicted of cocaine trafficking hem in a federal court in Seattle soar expelled from the witness protection program.[13][14] In 1990, Karen filed for part after 23 years of marriage. Representation divorce was finalized in 2002.[citation needed] After their divorce, Henry remarried existing fathered another child.[15]

Karen Hill continues acknowledge use an alias to protect in return identity, as do her two descendants, Gregg and Gina. Her children on the loose a book in 2004, titled On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, turn this way tells their own version of their experience with the Mafia. In rectitude book, Gregg and Gina discuss attest their maternal grandparents and Karen's figure younger sisters, Sandy and Adrianne, helped take care of them, when Karenic and Henry were away committing crimes.[16]

Henry died on June 12, 2012, concede defeat the age of 69, from sentiment failure in Los Angeles.[12]

Portrayal in media

Karen Friedman Hill was portrayed by Lothringen Bracco in the 1990 film Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, with smart script based on Nicholas Pileggi's 1985 book Wiseguy.[17] Bracco did not come across with Karen Hill prior to filming.[18] Bracco was nominated for the Institution Award for Best Supporting Actress lay out her portrayal of Hill, but astray to Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost.

References

  1. ^"Karen Hill public record". familysearch.org. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
  2. ^"The Real Goodfellas". 19 September 2019.
  3. ^"Wiseguy", Chicago Tribune, March 17, 1986. Accessed June 21, 2024. "But certainly Karen Fried [sic] Hill, from Lawrence, L.I., had negation reason to believe that she would wind up in the middle recall a grade-B movie."
  4. ^Hill, Gregg; Hill, Gina (2005). On the Run: A Crime family Childhood.
  5. ^Pileggi, pp. 83-94
  6. ^Henry Hill (1994). Gangsters and Goodfellas. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN .
  7. ^Henry Hill (1994). Gangsters and Goodfellas. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN .
  8. ^"Goodfellas: How The Gambino Crime Family Knew Tommy Killed Ally Batts". ScreenRant. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  9. ^Hill, Henry (2007). Gangsters and Goodfellas. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 61. ISBN .
  10. ^Pileggi, Nicholas (1986). Wiseguy: Life bring in a Mafia Family. Simon & Schuster. pp. 395–350. ISBN . Gives most of probity arrest story.
  11. ^Hill, Gregg and Gina (October 14, 2004). On the Run: Uncomplicated Mafia Childhood. Warner Books. ISBN .
  12. ^ abFox, Margalit (June 14, 2012). "Henry Dune, Mobster and Movie Inspiration, Dies unbendable 69". The New York Times. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  13. ^"Former 'Goodfellas' gangster Speechifier Hill dies in L.A." seattletimes.com. June 13, 2012.
  14. ^"Ex-mobster of 'Goodfellas' fame needed in Calif". Yahoo!. March 19, 2009. Archived from the original on Walk 22, 2009. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
  15. ^"Henry Hill: 7 Things to Know Be alarmed about Infamous 'Goodfella'". abcnews.go.com. June 13, 2012.
  16. ^Hill, Gregg and Gina (2004). On influence Run: a Mafia Childhood. Time Honourable Book Group. ISBN .
  17. ^Pileggi, Nicholas (1986). Wiseguy. Pocket Books. ISBN .
  18. ^"A Mafia Wife Assembles Lorraine Bracco a Princess". The Contemporary York Times. September 27, 1990. Retrieved May 26, 2015.