What Henry Hill Did After His Goodfellas Days

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama

The 1990 movie Goodfellas was based on the life of mob informant Henry Hill. The film ended when he went into the witness protection program. The 1990 movie My Blue Heaven was also based on Henry Hill’s life, except it was a fictionalized comedy that began with Hill’s entry into obscurity.

Nora Ephron, who wrote My Blue Heaven, got to know Henry Hill while her husband, Nicholas Pileggi, was writing his book Wiseguy, on which Goodfellas was based. It turns out that her comedy was pretty close to the truth. Henry Hill had quite a few adventures in the witness protection program.

With his Goodfellas era over, a man who had never known life outside the mob was unleashed on an unsuspecting world as one of us. In May 1980, when he sat down in the office of Ed McDonald, the prosecutor who was arranging his entrance into Witness Protection (WITSEC for short), Henry brought along two of his mistresses and tried to enroll them in the…

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