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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.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Henry Hill was a notorious mobster who became a federal informant and inspired the Martin Scorsese movie 'Goodfellas'. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, and worked his way up in the Lucchese crime family from a young age. He became a federal witness in 1980 and died in 2012 at the age of 69.
Jun 13, 2012 · Hill, who once called the film "95 percent accurate," died Tuesday at age 69 of an undisclosed illness, Nate Caserta, the son of Hill's fiancé Lisa Schinelli Casterta, confirmed. " [His] heart ...
Jul 22, 2020 · Henry Hill, a Brooklyn gangster and drug dealer, was the inspiration for the character of Jimmy Conway in Martin Scorsese's 1990 film GoodFellas. He was also involved in the 1978 Lufthansa Heist, the largest robbery in American history, which netted $23 million. Learn how he got involved with the mob, how he witnessed murders, and how he died in prison.
Jun 13, 2012 · June 13, 2012. Henry Hill, an associate in the Luchese organized-crime family whose decision to turn federal informer, and subsequent itinerant life in and out of the federal witness protection...
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Sep 21, 1990 · Goodfellas is a 1990 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book by Nicholas Pileggi. It tells the story of Henry Hill, a small-time gangster who rose to become a powerful member of the mafia and later became a federal informant.
In 1955, youngster Henry Hill becomes enamored by the Mafia presence in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates: Jimmy Conway, an Irish American gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent. By the 1960s, Henry and Tommy spend most of their nights carousing with women.