Henry Hill dead.

http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/12/henry-hill-dead-goodfellas/

So far TMZ is the only one reporting this. Wikipedia has already changed his page to dead.

Probably 20 years too late...

Were him and Ray Liotta boys or did he think he was some jerkoff?

Don't Cry For Me I'm Already Dead - Barney Gumble
RIP HENRY

They have 10 signed pictures of him on Ebay for $21.95 a piece, do any of you guys think they would increase in value, SC?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUTOGRAPH-PICTUR...=item3f189ee43d

Almost definitely will increase in value. It's the law of supply and demand.... there can be no increase in supply anymore.

R.I.P. Henry boy, you flipping gave us all an amazing movie.

They were on good terms. There's a pic of them hanging out together somewhere.

Wasn't he piss-poor broke or It said he had a living girlfriend I wonder if shes helps him run that ebay store I'd order something but I don't my money to get stuck in his paypal account since hes dead!!

DeNiro paid for a lot of stuff for Henry like rehab and a house maybe but im not sure about that. Hs book called gangsters, goodfellas and something is pretty good, goes into all the stuff that went down after he flipped. Like picking weed from ditches in Kansas....

What difference does it make if he's dead, or not?

I wonder if they (EBay) have any signatures of his.... the site says that Hill will personalize each photo. Kinda hard for that to happen now. Unless, of course, it's a ripoff like the rest of Hill's life.

He was on Canadian TV a little while ago showing off his paintings of rats he starting making as a hobby. (Seriously)

Was he on anyone's Dead Pool ????

Self portraits?

The guy was a fucking drug addict, I've seen a few of the mob documentaries and he babbles on and on about seeing people killed, "They'd do it right in front of you", etc.

He reminded me a lot of the homeless drug addicts I met while waiting at the bus stop

How many of those homeless drug addicts made the kind of money he made?

As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a loser - Henry Hill

Goodfellas = greatest movie of all time

I dont know if its because I really liked his book and it my favorite movie but I kinda liked the guy at times.

At least that $3200 bucks will come in handly for that coffin. Jimmy is probably feeding him to the lions in hell now.

Agreed! It showed all parts of LCN. Good, bad and the ugly.

You never know. Most people aren't born homeless. And there are some real eccentrics out there.

And back on topic, it's amazing that he lived so long. And I'm not even talking about his dodging mob retribution. I just mean that for a lifelong junkie, 69 years old is quite an achievment.

kinda sad really. im with you pb in that im shocked he made it this far with his substance abuse problems, especially alcohol in the later years. he was a character for sure, regardless of his criminal past the guy lived through so many unbelievable things in his life.

That's true. Alcohol taxes your body like few other drugs.

However, at the end of the day, he had the kind of money that most people dream of having.

Plus, he also joined a select society where only certain criminals get to be involved in.

I read the book his kids wrote about him and it wasn't pretty. We all know he was a babbling drunken idiot but he was also violent toward his daughter and was basically a fuckup

Well he got an extra 40 years on gods green earth than his buddy Tommy Desimone did!

He's a killer (a murderer) who happened to be a thief.

No mercy for him.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120613/D9VCEUJO2.html



In the early 1990s, after more drug arrests, Henry Hill was booted from the witness protection program.

His fears for his life waned as many former associates died off, and he led a more public life in later years, appearing in documentaries and becoming a popular call-in guest on Howard Stern's radio show.

His death was first reported by the celebrity website TMZ.

His struggles with substances would continue for most of his life. In 2008 he pleaded guilty in San Bernardino, Calif., to two counts of public intoxication. In 2009, he was arrested in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

"I've been on every drug humanly possible, and I can't get a handle on alcohol," he told The Associated Press in 2009. "I'll go two, two and a half years, and I don't know what triggers me."

no good drunk rat

Not mine, I was beginning to think he might be indestructible.

This has to be said every once in a while, without "rats" we would know jack sh*t about the mob, but of course i dont know if you were ever involved in the life in which case i guess you would know some stuff.

Hill's locked up episode is on natgeo right now. I enjoy it.

Henry was involved in a killing, but didn't kill the guy himself. I think it will be a while before God lets him into Heaven, but he will get there, even with the drug use and all the drinking he did. Yes, he helped other Luchese mobsters beat up guys that didn't pay up or disrespected them, but that was many years ago. I think Henry was a believer too!!!!!

As for Jimmy Burke, it would be very, very suprising if he's in Heaven.

Hill admitted to killing 3.

Are you sure there was two others???

My favorite line in Goodfellas is "Do you think I'm funny? You think I'm a clown?"

R.I.P. Henry!!!see you on the other side...

Who did he kill? I always thought he didn't kill anyone. He was around a murder or two but it was always my assumption that he didn't kill anyone. He never admitted to any. Unless you count Howard Stern show when he was blasted and he told a guy he killed someone with an ice pick but that was just bull shit.

Certainly had an interesting life.

That would be funny if he did kill a few people joked about drunkenly on howard stern and the feds just ignored it because they he has a history of lieing. But then again the FBI's Motto is whatever Lead No Matter How Crazy It Might Be, They Have To Follow IT Up.

who cares about knowing anything about the mob a rat is what ruins it. it doesnt even have anything to do with just the mob (being a rat) it shows the type of coward back stabber you are, ya know what i mean?

I watched the documentarys and interviews on him i enjoyed them but hes still a no good rat.

I doubt he'd meet St Peters criteria! LMAO

Who cares about knowing anything about the mob? Why are you watching docs? If you want to choose life in jail/death by who knows what over having your life to live, be by guest. On top of all that what oath did Henry break? He made it to 69 when he could have died any day after he walked into.that cab stand. Say what you want about him cause i know im not changing your mind but Henry is the one who made the choices that kept him free and alive, dont see how you could fault him for that.

Exactly I have no idea why people hate on rats me and everybody on this forum will probably never know the feeling being backed into a corner like that step left and don't rat and be killed or spend life in prison I'm pretty sure we would all take a deal. Plus who cares if they broke an oath the oath they pledge is an oath to murder, drugs and scam people. I give praise to guys who want to help put the mafia away but the only problem I have with govt informants is the govt goes to easy on them the majority of informants will get kicked out of witsec or go back to prison the govt should make so they really have to change their ways before giving them leniency

Buddy i would never stab my brothers in the back and betray a promise i made to myself and brothers to save my own back. Nobody "hates" on rats, nobody likes them, or wants to hang out with them or be friends. a rat isnt the pure fact of "ratting" its just betrayal and a coward move. forget about it

I watch docs because i like to, and when did henry get pinched when he was how old? already in his older ages not like he was 20 or 30 he did what he did, now pay the crime. A STAND UP GUY IS THE BEST THING YOU CAN BE 100% REAL AND HENRY HILL WASNT A STAND UP GUY

maybe its different for you, but i grew up to never tell on people or my brothers and sisters, or never tell on kids in school it was just kind of an un written rule. its just a thing you dont do no matter the circumstances

Well for starters i never said i agreed with the fact of ratting and liked rats, what im saying is its not up to us users on a computer forum to say that there cowards because we are never going to be backed into a corner like that.Obviously if i was in the mafia I would't like rats but the whole honor thing you tried to give a speech on proved my point you're a MOBFANBOY and GLAMOURIZE THE MAFIA thats the problem with people like you that are obssessed with somehow becoming a mobster and you can't draw the distinction between the real mob and the movies. You say i would never rat on my brothers and promise to my brothers this proves the exact point in the real life mafia the guys aren't brothers they stab eachother in the back and break the rules all the time, they have affairs with eachother's wives, they sell drugs and pills to kids, they put women into prostitution,they rat on eachother and they are all paranoid of eachother out of the fear that one of them may rat on them.

The majority of guys don't rat because they are cowards, they rat because thats the only choice they have because they'll be killed or they are looking at stiff prison sentence. You can say all you want that you would never rat but if you were 35 or 40 years old looking at a life sentence you probably would

I think their point is that you never know until you're faced with something. Not ratting out your classmates for peeking at your homework is a lot different than looking at life in prison or death in the streets as an adult.

It's one thing for a wiseguy who has lived the life to adopt a "rats need to die" attitude, or if you're a family member who has lost someone to jail. But when you're just a mob-watcher on an Internet board, you really don't know what it feels like to be faced with such things.

So don't get mad, but how old are you? I'm guessing you're still a very young guy. Your outlook may change when you get older .

Haha.. I'm an OG!! I'm an OG BABY!! Where Brooklyn AT!!

Pfft. Selfish lowlifes cutting self interested deals to screw other lowlifes. I don't see a difference between putting a bullet in someone to stay out of jail or cutting a deal.

None of these people have honor. The 'rats' are just the most open about it.

Well put.

I guess you have an Uncle Nino as well.

Hey, Dicknose learned how to use the quote feature .

Old Henry getting some grief!!

Surely somebody somewhere must be mourning him??

His bartender.

I doubt it, i bet he never paid his bill

mob fanboy? glamoraize the mob? im not gona dignify myself to you, but you gotta be drinking while typing, you dont know me so dont act like you do. losing family to a rat will maake you hate them ok.

If the mafia had this honour you so want them to have, then they'd be stronger and harder to beat.

By ratting out each other, they are doing the United States a favour.

Just be glad there are rats, like Valachi, you Americans knew sweet f all before he exposed the mob.

Hey well at least " I Pay My Tax"

Its also the way people control you into doing what they want. Search manipulation on the web and you'll see.

If you have family that has gone to jail, then i can understand your hatred. But that doesn't mean i disagree with criminals going to jail because they have been informed upon. At the end of the day if you involve yourself with illegal activity and theres more than three people involved your going to get ratted out eventually because not every one holds their criminal ethics over their freedom or lives,its just unrealistic to expect that, especially from a large group such as a crime family.

As for the whole taking an oath thing you have to look at the people already inducted when they are making someone new. Most of them are too old and entrenched in their criminal ways that they don't know nothing else so their is little chance of them reforming. So all that ceremony is, is some old guy poking your finger with a needle and burning a card because he now needs help committing his crimes because he's too old and also so can carry on making money without having to work and still be relevant.To make the inductee feel better about this the old gangster sells him fairy tales about the good old days and also gives him a title such as made man to make him feel important. Its just a sales pitch so that low level guys feel like they have something to work towards even though most of them won't make it anywhere except jail or the dead.

speaking of rats all the turncoats in the tommy shots trial with no murder convictions does the d.a. have to tell the judge yaeh will except you giving them 20yrs. it be a change for once there all shooters and i bet all the rats are thinking out of 10 8 guys rolled and the 2 guys still beat them at trial, do you think, they think i should have went to trial. even the springfield rat anthony his friend fusco went to trial and beat 2 bodies, does the judge and d.a. have to give him more time cause fusco wanst convicted. the d.a. still gonna bring up the murders at sentencing thats so unfair to the defendants but it is what it is.

Those cases are good examples that people are realizing that the informants are worse and more depsicable than the people they are testifying against. People on jury's realize that giving hardly any or no jail time to early informants like Gravano and D' Arco was a mistake because Gravano and many of them ended getting kicked out of the program or going back to jail. So I think jurors are more reluctant to listen to informants

Henry really wasn't a big mob guy, like Goodfellas makes people believe. Hollywood has that magic to make small things into big things. Great movie though and interesting story. Always watch it when it's on.

Believe me when I say we're on the same page. That I find these people interesting doesn't mean that I like them or what they do. I'm glad they don't have honour and that they turn on each other as quick as they turn on us - quicker sometimes. My post was in response to a 'rats are bad' post. I don't see them as any better or any worse than any of the other predators out there that live that life. It's just more of the same self interest in play.

I'm not American BTW.

What oath did Hill break? HE WAS NEVER MADE!

Massively brilliant point! I never looked at it that way before.

Did anyone else flip as a result of him flipping. I watched that re-run of mobster Henry Hill last night it was on tv at like 1 ..
Im pretty sure I recall the narrator saying his cooperation lead to the arrest of over 28 people, yet in the movie, there is just two defendants vario and burke that I remember...????

Didn't see that one!

Thats the thing, they've never been affected by it. These guys are only applying ratting to mafia, when it applies to anything in life. Forget explaining it. It's something you either get or you don't. I am with you 100%, though.

The only reasons why these slime balls rat is because they get caught doing crime mostly selling drugs and instead of taking it like a man they rat their way out of it

Agreed southphilly... this guy became just a parody of himself...

he better hope he don't see jimmy when he gets to where he's going

Im not taking up for rats in general but i am taking up for Henry in this case.