Goodfellas inspiration Henry Hill dies

Ray Liotta (centre) played mob informant Henry Hill (right), in a scene
with Robert De Niro, in the 1990 classic film Goodfellas

He was later moved 10 times by the FBI to areas including Nebraska and
Kentucky, living under aliases. In 1987 he was arrested on drugs charges,
and was released from witness protection in the early 1990s.

In
an interview with The Daily Telegraph in California in July 2010
,
Hill expressed amazement that vengeful mobsters had not caught up with him
and “whacked” him.

“It’s surreal, totally surreal, to be here,” he said. “I never
thought I’d reach this wonderful age. I’m just grateful for being alive.”

The former Mafia hood, who had two children, also expressed remorse for his
life of crime. He said he had never knowingly killed anyone, but had shot at
people and not stuck around to see what happened.

“I did a lot of bad things back then. I shot at people, I busted a lot of
heads, and I buried a lot of bodies.”

Hill regarded “Goodfellas” as “95 per cent accurate” and
described his friends Jimmy “the Gent” Burke, and Tommy DeSimone,
played by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in the film, as “homicidal
maniacs.”

“It took me a long time to forgive myself for what I did, for being a
rat. But I knew I saved a lot of lives by putting a lot of horrible people
away.”

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