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. Later on, my father used to brag that hed bought off the guards so that my mother could smuggle things in, but it didnt seem like it at the time. She knew nothing about who Martin Lewis really was about his double life, his wife and two teenage kids. This time, the family was placed in Redmond, Washington, and right off the bat, Hill spoke to an acquaintance in Kentucky asking him to ship one of the horses he had bought for his daughter to him, the one named Banana Split. He told her how much he still loved Sherry and managed to convince her to let him in the house. Im sure she never used the word prison, and it wouldnt have mattered because I was only six years old and wouldnt have known what prison was. 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. As they headed to Nevada for a quickie wedding, Sherry was on cloud nine. But then federal prosecutors indicted them for extortion, which they could do because my father had crossed state lines. or. Its not easy getting up on the stand, he later said of turning his back on his ex-mentors. 220, and maybe a little precocious. Then he went back to Karen and handed over the gun to her and told her to hide it. It seemed like this woman knew who her husband was. The next morning, Karen noticed he wasnt home. My mom had a lot of things on her mind that day. With Janets help, Sherry sued Hill for compensation of the money he siphoned off from her when they were married. Martin was like a dad to the two boys, always giving them quarters for the arcades and making them laugh at his dirty jokes. Their divorce was finalized in 2002. So, he became an informant. See Photos. 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. They started double dating (with Vivian and her husband) and Hill always made an impression with his 100-dollar tips. When my parents first got married, in 1965, they lived with my grandparents, my moms parents, in Valley Stream, on Long Island. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Still, under the creepiness there was something magnetic about Sherrys new beau. Those bastards. She made it sound like the government was picking on him over something petty. 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. They were so young, my dad twenty-two and my mom just nineteen. They wanted dirt on the prosecution's star witness. Wed leave at eleven oclock, sometimes even later, and drive west into Pennsylvania. There were twenty-two hundred men inside, some of the worst criminals in the federal system. My sister and I had to empty our pockets, and my mother had to hand over her purse to get searched. When Sherry was turning to Karen for support, she let slip the fact that a private eye had been investigating her for months. In time, I would grow to hate those words. But Hill, aka Marty, was bored, reckless, and started hustling more and more. Seven weeks after that fateful night in the Mexican restaurant, Hill/Marty just came out with it. It explained a lot, like how her roommate found a mayonnaise jar filled with a white powdery substance that could only be described as an illegal narcotic. Hed tell my grandma he did a guy a favor and bought a load of merchandise from him, stuff she could help sell to the neighbors. We are the children of one of the most notorious mobsters turned FBI informants, Henry Hill. She usually fell back on a gambling charge if she got specific at all. We lived on the third floor, overlooking the pool, and I shared a bedroom with my brother. Announcing his death, Hills girlfriend Lisa Casserta said he struggled with alcoholism. The events of their life were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. Sign Up. They didnt know that the book would eventually become a classic of true crime literature, called Wiseguy, and that future cinema gold by the name of Goodfellas was being made right under their noses. Ever since, Id suffered migraines, maybe once a week or so. The newspaper article on this blog is the very same one that my father stumbled upon to find the Cabstand job that started his segway into the mafia life. Janet and two other female detectives at the agency were dubbed Charlies Angels. She wanted to meet, and Sherry agreed. Therefore, exact details about them are still unavailable. I wondered how long it would be before I could wrap my arms around his neck and feel the smooth leather of his blazer or smell his Paco Rabanne cologne lingering in the apartment after he left to go to The Suite. I began this blog to simply tell part of my father's story through my eyes. At first, he was happy to hear the news. The Feds also changed the familys last name again: this time to Scott. Yet again, the man who was supposed to be laying low was making too much noise. Gina Hill. She knew something wasnt right. I have work. It was his smile that damn smile that always worked on her. My mom and dad got their own place for a while, a small apartment, then moved back right before my mom had me. Henry Hill then became an informant to the FBI, which caused Karen and the children to enter the Witness Protection Program, where they were given new identities and lived in numerous locations through the 1980s. She didnt want me to know how upset she was. You want to have some fun? Sherry asked Karen. So brazen was Hill that he even wore a 'Witness Protection Program' T-shirt while dating Anders. In an interview with CBS News in 2009, Gregg, whose face was disguised, recalled that there was a breaking point where he couldn't take it any more. Against his fathers wishes Hill got in with the mafia crowd aged 11 when he started hanging around with the infamous Lucchese family. By then, he and Karen had divorced, and he was now married to a woman named Kelly in California. There was a point where Nick heard he might be a potential kidnapping victim in a plot to get to Hill. It is thought that during the first year Hill and his family spent in witness protection, he continued to enjoy several illicit affairs, all the while continuing his criminal dealings - which forced the FBI to repeatedly move them around to different locations. Jimmy Burke usually tucked a fifty in the guys shirt pocket for his trouble; thats where he got his nickname, The Gent. She had met her true love. 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. Due to his numerous crimes while in witness protection, the family was expelled from the program in the early 1990s. As a host and someone who has been in that world,. Secrets & Wives Truly*Adventurous Medium. She was notorious mobster Henry Hill's girlfriend - the dude from Goodfellas who passed away at age 69 yesterday. Born on June 11, 1943, in the tough Brownsville area of New York, Hill was the fifth of seven children and the first son to his Sicilian mother Carmella and his father, also called Henry. What do you mean? His notorious smile kept the girls from asking any further questions. 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. The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. Just like with the witness program, Hill assumed hed get away with it. As for Nick, the co-writer, he knew of the danger of his involvement with the mobster. I was in first grade at P.S. Hill grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he admired local mafiosi, including Paul Vario, a capo in the Luchesse crime family. Of particular interest to Janet, was Sherrys recent marriage to Martin. I said, You know, I hope thats not a red flag, but theres something kind of creepy about him, Vivian later shared. The real-life mafia turncoat who was immortalized by late actor Ray Liotta in his breakout role in Goodfellas was a bigamist who repeatedly cheated on his wife while in witness protection, before leaving her and their children to wed a Mormon hairdresser he had known for just seven weeks. They wanted more information and his testimony. Well, thats the alias the government allowed her to go by (she chose the name). As a result, the state took away their son. Wed tell people we were Girl Scouts and ask for cookies. That was my mom, trying to make something very big sound very small. 'Isaid, "You know, I hope that's not a red flag, but there's something kind of creepy about him."'. Hed been sentenced to ten years on November 3, 1972, but his lawyer kept him out for almost two more years with a long string of appeals. 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. 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. The girls didnt ask questions and tried not to disturb them. Did she know of his past, his family, his involvement as an informant? In another jaw-on-the-floor moment, Hill drank himself dumb as he watched his wives have a hell of a night on the dance floor. Vivian had always been protective of Sherry, who had a knack for choosing the wrong men. That was my dads greatest asset, his charm. The authors were Gregg Hill and Gina Hill, described as "Son and Daughter of 'Wiseguy' Henry Hill". Suddenly, a man who never knew life outside of the mob, was walking the streets as one of us. He was arrested on a number of occasions in the years leading up to his death for public drunkenness. He Was Not Ready For What He Discovered There, Buns in the Oven: Couple Gets Pregnant After 17 Years, The Murder Story of the Wealthiest Woman in Monaco. Before he could properly get kicked out of Sherrys house, he passed out. Reprinted by permission of Warner Books. I came back, and I had a second chance, he told her. Sherry rode the white, bony horse bareback into the night, crying the whole way. Log In. By the time they made close friends and felt comfortable enough to spill the beans, their friends disappeared from their lives too spooked to keep up the friendships. To make it worse, the son, Michael, was busing tables at El Toreador, where he saw his dad with his drinking buddies. Lisa, of Italian-American descent, shared a Malibu home with Hill (who was portrayed . Although he was convicted on drug charges stemming from his 1987 arrest, the FBI and prosecutors pleaded with the court to release him. I am a Teacher who started creating online content for my students from 2016 so that they can get access to free knowledge online. It was here that he participated in the murder and burial of a fellow mobster. Lets get married today, he told her. Late gangster Henry Hill - who was portrayed by Liotta in Martin Scorcese's hit 1990 movie - was taken into the FBI's witness protection program with his wife Karen and their two children, Gail and Michael, in 1980 after helping to jail members of his infamous mafia gang. Filmography. The firm represented Jimmy Burke, Hills former Mob boss, a man who wanted him dead. What was once a general underlying anxiety was now full-fledged panic. Her children released a book in 2004, titled 'On the Run: A Mafia Childhood', which was about their own experience with the Mafia. The book also sheds light on their experience with the mafia and how their childhood was spent. Sherry was dumbfounded. Finally, Karen figured out a way to dissolve Hills marriage to Sherry. The comments below have not been moderated, By Just a temporary situation. My mom used that expression for everything bad that happened. But the family were still taken out of the witness protection program 'based upon continued arrests and breaches of security'. Self - Henry Hill's Daughter. She and Hill eventually parted ways, last living together in Rockville Centre. His first arrest came when he was 16 years old and he carried out the Lufthansa raid after serving a six-year prison sentence in the Seventies. On the first night in their new home, the senior Hill, instead of playing it low-key, took his family to Godfathers Pizza and proceed to get drunk and unruly. Sherry may have been nave, but she was no aggressor. Then we went up a set of wide stone steps into the building, where we got in line with everyone else who had a father or a brother or a son locked up in Lewisburg. Sherry had to explain to Samantha who HH was. Watch a rare interview with one of the most famous wiseguys of all time Henry Hill, of "Goodfellas" fame. Profile. As for Sherry, shes now around 70 years old and goes by Scarlett. This is me and my brother, Gregg Hill. And his connections. Her Husband was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. Book Review On the Run by Gregg and GinaHill. He's my husband. He started groping her in the front seat and my mom told him to stop but he didnt so she slapped him. He called her his Sherry Amour (My Cherie Amour) and told her she was the love of his life. Whats my sons name? she asked him. Back in Washington, Sherry had to get back to work. 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. He immediately rushed to the spot and drove Karen home and then walked across the street to find Ted in the driveway. That was still better than the Plymouth Duster with the bald tires we had to rent one time from some low-budget lot. Things took a nasty turn when Henry received a ten-year sentence for extortion in 1974. Few areas of American culture have been more falsely glamorized than the mafia. When Hill came under federal protection, his wife, Karen, and their two children did too. Youre too good for me, he told her one night, drunk. Between 1955 and 1980, Hill was associated with the Lucchese crime family. Tony also probes Hill on the ultimate, moral penalty of terrorizing another human being, beyond the consequences of the law. When Hill showed up to find all of his stuff buried under snow, he raised all hell. Her roommate ran into him in town. But it was about the same time hed bought me Baby Alive, this doll that you could feed pretend baby food and her mouth would move, like she was chewing. 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