Goodfellas showed Henry Hill and Tommy DeVito working together as teenagers, but the friendship between the real Henry and Tommy started differently.
Goodfellas followed Henry Hill’s rise and fall as a mob associate, starting when he ran errands for Paul Cicero and his crew when he was a teenager, along with a young Tommy DeVito, but did the real Henry Hill and Tommy DeSimone work together as teenagers? Based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas tells the true story of mob associate Henry Hill, from becoming a close friend of Paulie, Jimmy “The Gent” Conway , and Tommy, to cooperating with the FBI as an...
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Throughout Goodfellas, Henry is shown working closely with Jimmy and Tommy in a variety of illegal activities, from serving as a fence for Jimmy when Henry was still a teenager to being key in the planning of the Lufthansa heist years later. Henry and Tommy were shown working as a fence for Jimmy, which eventually led to Henry’s first arrest, with Tommy escaping from the police to tell Paulie that Henry had been caught.
Tommy was introduced to Paul Vario when he was 15 years old, and by then, Henry was already working for Paulie and his crew. Henry described Tommy in Wiseguy as a “skinny kid who was wearing a wiseguy suit and a pencil mustache”, similar to how young Tommy DeVito is portrayed in Goodfellas .
What Happened To The Real Henry Hill & Tommy DeSimone? Of Henry’s closest circle in Goodfellas, Tommy was the first one to die. Just like in the movie, the real Tommy was tricked into believing he was going to be made, but he disappeared, and to this day, his remains haven’t been found, and it’s unclear what happened to him and who was responsible for it.
As for Henry, he was expelled from the witness protection program in 1987 after various arrests, and his wife Karen filed for divorce in 1990. After that, Henry wrote books, opened his own restaurant , and made various public appearances after the release of Goodfellas. Henry Hill died of complications related to heart disease on June 12, 2012.
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