Their dad, whose FBI testimony helped secure 50 convictions, including those of mob capo Paul "Paulie" Vario and James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke died in 2012. THE DAY OUR LIVES ENDED An exclusive extract from On The Run

The 1990 film My Blue Heaven was based on Hill's life, with the screenplay written by Pileggi's wife Nora Ephron. [50]The Associated Press (April 17, 1996). "James (Jimmy the Gent) Burke, Gangster, 64, of 'Wiseguy' Fame". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 20, 2018 . Retrieved February 12, 2019. The rest of the book details how Hill kept on breaking the rules of the government’s Witness Protection Program, and as a result, the Feds had to keep re-locating Hill’s family to different locations to keep them safe. The Feds also changed the family’s last name again: this time to Scott.

He made calls to his drug-dealing friends. He made calls to his girlfriends in New York," adds Gregg. Karen Friedman Hill has remained out of the limelight since the family came out of the Witness Protection Program. As of today continues to use analiasto protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. Henry Hill: 7 Things to Know About Infamous 'Goodfella' ". abcnews.go.com. June 13, 2012. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020 . Retrieved May 1, 2020. Ms Hill said: “The AJAC members are established and emerging leaders in their communities and bring a breadth of knowledge about the justice system. But Henry Hill wasn't just a good time mobster he was a psychopath. And his kids had to live with this; while their mother was co-dependent.

Their dad was Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas where he was played by Ray Liotta - and he had just turned police informant to save his own skin. After Bentvena was beaten and presumed killed, DeSimone, Burke, and Hill placed his body in the trunk of Hill's car for transport. They stopped at DeSimone's mother's house to fetch a shovel and lime. They started to hear sounds from the trunk, and when they realized that Bentvena was still alive, DeSimone and Burke stopped the car and beat him to death with the shovel and a tire iron. Burke had a friend who owned a dog kennel in Upstate New York, and Bentvena was buried there. [7] But while their attraction to one another may well have been authentic, it was one of the only aspects of their fiery romance that was. In recent times however he ventured out in public more – opening a restaurant called Wiseguys, launching his own brand of spaghetti sauce and appearing on US TV talking about gangster movies. The truth was that Henry could not keep his mouth shut. He bragged about his true identity, revealed his location to his parents, kept dealing drugs and drink drove.