Goodfellas
Goodfellasfollowed Henry Hill ’s ( Ray Liotta ) rise and fall as a mob associate , starting when he campaign errands for Paul Cicero ( Paul Sorvino ) and his gang when he was a teenager , along with a young Tommy DeVito , but did the real Henry Hill and Tommy DeSimone work together as stripling ? found on the bookWiseguyby Nicholas Pileggi , Martin Scorsese’sGoodfellastells the true account of mob associate Henry Hill , from becoming a secretive ally of Paulie , Jimmy “ The Gent ” Conway ( Robert De Niro ) , and Tommy , to get together with the FBI as an source , top to the check of his former friends .
ThroughoutGoodfellas , Henry is prove working intimately with Jimmy and Tommy in a motley of illegal body process , from dish as a fencing for Jimmy when Henry was still a teenager to being key in the planning ofthe Lufthansa heistyears later . Henry and Tommy were shown forge as a fencing for Jimmy , which finally head to Henry ’s first stoppage , with Tommy lam from the police to recount Paulie that Henry had been catch . Henry and Tommy ’s friendship continued as they grew up , but their tangible story was dissimilar , as even though they met when they were untried , they did n’t precisely work together as teenagers as show up inGoodfellas .
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The Real Henry Hill Was Older Than Tommy DeSimone
InGoodfellas , young Henry is straight off fascinated by Jimmy when he saw him go far at a party where Henry was in charge of intellectual nourishment and drinks , and from then on , they make together . Jimmy introduced him to Tommy , who is shown to be around the same age as Henry , and that was the kickoff of a friendship that lasted until Tommy ’s mystic death . This part of Henry ’s life is n’t entirely precise , as even though Henry and Tommy did meet when they were young , Henry was actually seven years older than Tommy .
Tommy was introduce to Paul Vario when he was 15 years old , and by then , Henry was already make for for Paulie and his crew . Henry described Tommy inWiseguyas a “ skinny kid who was wearing a wiseguy suit and a pencil mustache ” , similar to how untried Tommy DeVito is portray inGoodfellas(minus the mustache ) . Tommy also work under Paul , Jimmy Burke , and Henry , so Henry and Tommy did work together when they were untried but not as show inGoodfellas , though they were involved in truck hijackings , fencing stolen property , and more , just like in the motion-picture show .
What Happened To The Real Henry Hill & Tommy DeSimone?
Of Henry ’s closelipped circle inGoodfellas , Tommy was the first one to go bad . Just like in the film , the real Tommy was play a trick on into believing he was going to be made , but he disappeared , and to this solar day , his remains have n’t been detect , and it ’s indecipherable what happened to him and who was responsible for it . There are unlike possibility onwhat happened to Tommy DeSimone , but it ’s generally accepted that his disappearance was in retaliation for the murder of Billy Batts and Ronald Jerothe , both tightlipped associates of John Gotti , so it ’s believed that Gotti himself could have kill Tommy and even that Paul Vario told the Gambino crew that Tommy killed Batts and Jerothe .
As for Henry , he was boot out from the witness protection programme in 1987 after various halt , and his married woman Karen file for divorcement in 1990 . After that , Henry wrote books , opened his own eatery ( though it did n’t last long as it closed a month afterward after a fervour ) , and made various public appearances after the release ofGoodfellas . Henry Hill diedof complications related to heart disease on June 12 , 2012 .
