June 11, 1943 - Henry Hill

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.

Hill's life story was documented in the true crime book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi, which was subsequently adapted by Martin Scorsese into the critically acclaimed 1990 film Goodfellas, in which Hill was portrayed by Ray Liotta. The crime comedy film My Blue Heaven is a heavily fictionalized version of Hill’s life story, its screenplay written by Pileggi’s wife Nora Ephron based on joint researched sessions with her husband.

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