![]() Little has been made public about her young life up until the point when she met Henry Hill. Perhaps this was the turning point for a soon-to-be gangster’s wife who started out as a nice girl from Long Island.īorn in 1946, Karen Friedman Hill came from a Jewish family living in the Five Towns area of Long Island. ![]() ![]() Most girls would have been terrified, but my mom said she thought it was sexy.” Pistol-whipped him! Then my dad came trotting back across the street, all sweaty and red, and gave my mom the gun and told her to hide it. ![]() He saw Ted in the driveway, grabbed him by the hair, pulled a gun out of his pocket, and pistol-whipped him. “My mom called my dad and he picked her up and drove her home, but instead of going into the house with her, he went across the street. Karen and Henry’s daughter Gina later described her mother’s account of the aftermath of the Ted incident in the memoir On the Run: A Mafia Childhood: In a scene depicted with brutal accuracy in Goodfellas, Henry swiftly took revenge. She slapped him and he relented, angrily pushing her out of his car and driving away. In 1965, after Karen Friedman and Henry Hill - the notorious New York gangster whose life story was made famous by the book Wiseguy and subsequent film adaptation Goodfellas - had been dating for a few months, a neighbor of hers named Ted tried to force himself on her. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood Karen Friedman Hill and Henry Hill on their wedding day. ![]()
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