HENRY HILL - "GOODFELLAS". How a respected gangster became a snitch. Real story 

It's okay, man

Don't beat yourself up bro..its a NYC 5 Boros Eye-talian thing..and some of them don't even get it right. Even as an Irish-German AMERICAN, that grew up in the center of it all (South Ozone Park and How'beach) I know to call Manicotti, "Muna-gut" Cross Bay Blvd is "Crozz-Bay," Long Island 🏝 is "Long GUY land. Calamari is "Golla-mah)." Cousin is "My Cuzzin," River is "Riivah" et et cetera...Capitsh (you understand, in Italian, spelling?) Is "KAAABEESCH???). Not looking Italian and moving out to "Long GUY land" when I was 12, I can speak the King's English, Locust Valley Lockjaw (Like Thurston Howell III Gilligan's Island 🏝), and Being a College 🎓 graduate, I can turn it on and off to suit my company 😀 or to make jokes, or let someone know, I'm from the Old Nay-bah-hood! Cuz...You get that double-take from, them... "HOW YOU KNOWA DAT?" actual Question from an Old Brooklyn Plumber I knew....I had asked about one of his employees, Doug. And, In a very suspicious 🤔 and accusatory tone in Broken English he said "Howa youa knowa DOUG?????" like how could I possibly know the same peeps, he did but He don't me! It was hilarious 😆 and we use that phrase till this day to break his shoes....Dont beat yourself up bro, I find it Precious and Hilarious how these names are attempted...its all good as long as the Content is accurate...who cares....Matt

Mate,it was a great vid.Nevermind the bollocks.

No worries...bro..its funny

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I met Henry when I was one of the nurses getting stuff for him in my city while he was doing the pizza shop promotion book signing! What a guy, he used to make me laugh with his stories and wisecracks, oh I still chuckle now!

@@highgarden9704 Very interesting! 👍 What did he tell you, if it's not a secret?

@@showcrime I asked him if he knew any of my relatives in Pittsburgh and he didn’t know them. He gave me a name and asked me if I had heard anything about this guy. He told me that the guy was a “ wannabe wise guy” and that he wanted to open a strip club with Henry. I never heard of the guy. He asked me why I was still a patrol officer and not “inside”, given my family connections in Pittsburgh. I told him that I had no contact with those folks, since I left for college and then subsequently moved out of state. We talked about our mothers Italian cooking. He was a good cook and the book that he gave me, had some recipes that would be hard to find. Most of those recipes left the world, with the women who made them. I have been around some hitters and even other psycho cops, that I was careful what came out of my mouth. I did not feel that way with Henry. Henry was like the guy that would be a sneaky thief or pick up numbers slips, but I did not sense danger around him like some guys. He knew however, some very dangerous people. I liked Henry and found him funny. We hit it off.

Henry seemed like a great guy who would give you the shirt off his back, but would go in the top dresser drawer and take cash 💸 😉 if he needed it. He never passed himself off as a tough guy, but He could be violent if he HAD to. Some people try to portray him as a witless loser hanging in the background. Au Contrare! He was an amazing jungle cat that had unbelievable senses and was pretty much the only one who avoided death at the Hands of Jimmy The Gent Burke. Hey, Henry had alot more interesting life than most of us. Matt

Many of those guys in the life “found “ religion after they served their sentences and returned to civilian life broke. Recognizing a good scam, they turned to RU-vid. Guys like Joe Rogan making 80 million to talk to people in their basement. Except for Religion and politics, RU-vid is a great way to take suckers money.

RU-vid is fast becoming a retirement home for wise guys.

When the FBI ,played a tape of Burke and Paulie discussing killing him , Henry called bullshit and said no way ,,then they played more tape then Henry realized what scumbags his "standup' were

And he the guy that made Ray Liotta a household name in Hollywood! RIP to Ray Liotta, you were the real goodfella. Sorry to the real Henry Hill but you should've been careful with your life choices.

Perfectly said.

That's really interesting. These movies really affected me as a young man growing up in London. I watched both avidly over and over. Steve Martin's brilliant acting in My Blue Heaven, the music and direction was top notch American production for example the dance scene with Rick Moranis and Joan Cusack is pure magic!

Very cool, and a funny film. They should do a documentary about that story.

I love that movie

So true never got a nickel from Efron

My Blue Heaven was based around Henry Hill, now _that’s_ funny 😂 funniest part in that movie was when Steve Martin and Co are rolling out water cooler bottles full of coins 🪙, even my Aunt’s father (who was old school “affluent” Italian Canadian) laughed at that part

No conscience. Henry was just another happy zombie with blood on his hands. A Rat King. GROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reality is tough and then you die. Then dogs pee on you for eternity. You dwell in wonderland and frolic in a creepy place. What up?

Henry had heart disease Ray just overworked himself to death..plus the lovely Ray liked his cocaine every now and then...wish he didnt...

@@martinkent333 lighten up Francis

Coincident Ray Loitta was a cream puff actor Henry Hill transporting body’s at 3am .

We glorified Cowboys and the US Calvary too. Care to guess who suffered besides the Buffalo?

@@edub9716 I guess that's why we're screwed

​@@edub9716 Care to go over what the Comanches and Apaches did to other tribes???

@@edub9716 Injuns and wagon burners are always bitching about being losers. Hey we gave you casinos. Your welcome.

They are the LOWEST of the low I despise them

He was a low iq guy for sure not like he was portrayed in the film.

he got into the sauce bad eventually

Yea, he sounds pretty simple minded

Highly unlikely for these scum

Two words. Cocaine cocaine

It’s romantic to think of being part of the mob until you’re in the crew of Jimmy Burke, who will walk your children in a refrigerator

@@IHS333 jimmy the gent! Good on your history!

​@@IHS333you keep repeating the same thing.

Henry wasn't even a soldier, he was an errand boy.

@@bobbyleglocks1992 you know what’s funny, I was watching Michael Franzese last night and he said almost exactly the same thing, lol. I stand corrected.

Yes but he was a grass .

Your welcome 🙏

r u a bottom feeder?

They cared more about finding Donnie Brascoe than they did Henry. And Donnie was only doing his job. Henry ratted on his friends!

​@@iTzYoMasterXXWell, they were gonna wack him and his wife. He wasn't a psychopath compared to the others. He just let the thrill of it all go to his head and couldn't get out. Not innocent though by any means obviously

@@mr.timebombman2230 Yeah that's true. What's weird is that they always say, "never rat on your friends". But it's okay to kill them?

It isn’t

It’s a lot factual.

@@LiveINtheGood53 it’s nonsense he was a little smack head that the police bribed with freedom to tell lie’s

​@@LiveINtheGood53The book is even better.

The stuff actually happened but it didnt look the way it did in the movies. Based on true events, and thats what Goodfellas is.

That’s not strictly true, the movie portrayed him as someone committed to that life. In reality he had made several attempts to get out of it.

Torture is fun for masochists, like him.

His boss was sleeping with his wife too, loyalty gets sketchy when that happens?

@@grahamblack1961 hes a notorious liar, anything you think you know isnt the true story

That's what I've heard too. I heard gotti killed him in a basement with a couple of other guys.

​@@frankiehitman2610 I heard it was with a Chainsaw

@@robertrodriguez787 fuckin brutal. But, that's the life of a gangster

Great Movie at the beginning were they are at the diner and Henry and Tommy are standing together.. I believe it said 1963 at the bottom..That's means Tommy DeSimone was only "13" years old and Henry was "20"..Henry he met Karen Freeman through Paul Vario Jr. And his date..Not Tommy & his date..Henry when he was living in Kentucky he got $500,000 from the movie and they promised him Millions more that he never got that's why he went through the money so fast on drinking drugs and gambling..Was the movie accurate who Henry Hill I'd say maybe 60% the other 40% was made up BS..Why not everybody's either in jail or dead and you're getting paid great money why not make yourself look like a cool gangster..😮💰

According to the book “ Wise Guys” Paul Vario had never liked Tommy anyway

What are they gonna do Bust into the Stern Show to take Henry Out . News Flash The Mob ain't as Strong as it use to be to do that

@@robertrodriguez787 thats my point .

RUA bottom feeder?

He couldn't even pronounce the crime family and an important characters last name correctly. Terrible

Hesa jew wat yall expect

Adam, if you like true crime, go to Matt Cox channel. Inside True Crime. I've done 2.5 yrs in fed for stealing 2.5m.

All total scumbags! Let's not glorify them.

RUA bottom feeder?

I find it funny that people think the mafia - child and family murdering drug dealers set the moral code and that their accusations of being a rat ... Are lauded by idiots.... And like you say they near all rat given the right circumstances.

Late nights, chain smoking, all the booze and probably drugs. Possibly a bad diet as well.

AWWWWWW

Your so wrong so wrong he didn't die alone he was loved

And didn't die penniless

Thank you! I'll try not to let you down in my next videos as well!

He was a horrendous drug addict, low ranking mafia flunky. He wasn’t respected by his contemporaries or his enemies. And at the first sign of trouble he sold everyone out. Not that I feel bad for the people he ratted on, but Henry was rotten to the core. Also weird all the stories about Henry’s seedy sexual escapades with men and women both. His interviews on Stern destroyed any last mystique the movie might have created for him

@@Ditka-89 He got off easy compared to his associates, and the people whose lives he ruined.

@@OnafetsEnovap again I don’t really have much compassion for any of those mafioso people who got ratted on. I think they’re all scummy. But Henry is somehow scummier than them all.

⁠@@Ditka-89You “think” they are all scummy?? If you have to think twice before realising they are evil then you have issues I’m sorry to say. As to Henry Hill being “Scummier” what rationale or logic is that?? Henry Hill was quite literally abused terribly as a child and was groomed by Paul Varios crew who took him in. Henry is not very intelligent and was easily moulded in to a low ranking mobster who drank heavily and used drugs to block out the horrific things he witnessed and remember he knew nothing else and himself was controlled by people like Burke and Di Simone and claimed until very late in his life that although pressured he never killed anyone however he did admit to his crimes but involvement in any violence he claimed this was where he was given no option but he always maintained he was coerced through sheer fear for his own life to do it and I think he played a part in a murder however and BELIEVE ME I am not defending this asshole, when he was appearing on Howard Stern and often drunk shortly before his death he confessed to his sins and knew he was an idiot and a terrible person however the very fact he couldn’t live with his past sins and was a hopeless drunk and drug user who had PTSD should make it pretty obvious he is certainly not Jimmy Burke or Di Simone who were complete EVIL and in the end he did help bring down the Mafia and put over 100 confirmed Murderers behind bars and had a relationship with his family. The end of his life was Tragic and terribly sad how he just destroyed himself but maybe he deserved that I don’t know, but I do know he was not in the same league as most Mobsters back then regarding Violent crime and Murder and is one of the very few with any redeeming qualities whatsoever. What do you think about the fact that Sammy Gravano who has been convicted with 26 murders and says the real number is way more is running his own RU-vid show!😳🤯

@@Ditka-89 He never murdered anyone to my knowledge. There were far worse than him.

R U A Bottom feeder?

R U A bottom feeder?

Henry was an alcoholic and drug addict but he was still very much a gangster in that life.

Michael Franzese was a chump just riding off his daddies name and still is. He wasn't in the trenches doing any work. All the street guys have said he was a nobody outside of his last name.

i dont know why the American mafia kept talking like they need a spotlight. Arent they supposed to STFU? My family is from Sicily but you don't hear those retired mafioso angling for a book and movie deal.

That is the impression I got. Ray Liotta and his portrayal was a LONG way from Henry Hill in real life. Frankly, I think Henry glommed on the Paul Varyo, and then, when he could, I think he got in tight with Jimmy Burke. As far as how far his involvement really went, we will never know. I do not think anyone who has been forced to has ever totally come clean about their misdeeds. Hill included.

@@luigivincenz3843 that's because the Mafia is in control of the government. In America, they got real big fish in the US government, people who literally can destroy any country

Glad you liked it, friend! 😉

I was a kid in the 80s and parents weren't as clued up back then and they classed the video player and VHS tapes as a good babysitter. I spent hours watching all the horrors, action and kung-fu movies I could. By a young age I felt desensitised to hard-core violence and blood and gore. Think I was 14 or 15 when Goodfellas came on TV and it had me hooked from the very beginning. I classed it as more terrifying than any horror because it was real, had happened and the violence felt raw and authentic. I had an immature and naivety and I thought these mafia types could bully or attack anyone and get away with it which made them deadly. That movie got burnt into my mind I must have seen it dozens of times over the years. Up until that movie I'd never heard of scorsese but the same channel was doing a scorsese month and next was raging bull

Your kidding right Ireland is even worse than america

You know there's organised crime in Ireland too? They're nearly as laughable as their American counterparts, it's a real hoot to read about all the young tracksuit laden lads whose bodies are being found in bin bags littered across Dublin. I can almost imagine the scene, two paddies trying to chop a body to pieces in some shitty council flat's garden shed 😂 Shame they're not giving the gardaí a similar treatment.

RUA bottom feeder?

Why unhealthy? It's perfectly normal fixation. Millions of people around the world who devour Goodfellas and Sopranos don't think it's unhealthy. More like normal.

All total scumbags! Let's not glorify them.

Some think he was a small fish and didn't kill anyone. Others believe that Henry was not in the Mafia, but that he was respected, he was assigned difficult cases and probably killed people. As they say, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

He wasn’t required to make his bones. He could only be an associate.

@@theironmarshmallowg3932 you don’t witness assassinations for the experience. As a witness with no direct action you are a danger to the people committing the murder. Same video, they spoke of wiping out ten or so people for less.

Small fish is right....just a junkie on the fringes who said what the feds told him to say.....he isn't the first and won't be the last.

Honestly, it's not that unbelievable if he didn't kill people himself. He was an associate in Burke's crew, another respected but Irish gangster under Vario, and the Luccheses likely didn't rely on Irish associates to murder people for the family.

RUA bottom feeder?

Thank you so much for such kind words! I will try to do even better! May everything be good for you too 😉

@@showcrime nice 1 for the msge I like it wen I see people trying to do good for there self's and for others I swear if this is ur first time doing these story's wow that's brilliant and even if it is not ur first time doing ur story's ur good in fact ur very good and I really enjoyed ur video of henry hill that guy certainly had someone watching over him in that life he was in and the last 20 years or so he defiantly had a guardian angel watching over him because even wen he was in witness protection he couldn't stay out of trouble I know towards the end he couldn't really live with been a informer but he thought of his kids and family a lot of people will say he just thought of his self maybe but that life he was in is a dead end street I suppose but he did last long but the alcoholism and the drugs he was taking was too get threw everyday mad stuff hay mate I did see some comments about you getting a few names wrong of places ect but come on we all carnt be perfect it certainly didn't ruin it for me to be honest I didn't notice real any mistakes in the video , in a few month's ur views will be sky high mark my word pal, all best I really mean that for you god bless you,

Until it’s time to pay for my actions

Me too except I was to scared of prison. As a young fella coming up, we had our crews. Small little heists through coordination and collaboration. However, I was scared straight after a heists at a University. A large drug shipment to one of the students. I was 17 and my buddy and I got nailed for armed robbery. Being dumb and naive, I didn't think it was so terrible. We did those type of capers regularly. Little did I know, they wanted to put me away for years. My mother got me super attorney and told me this was the last time. After working with my attorney, I got counseling, enrolled in college. Went to court and received probation. I graduated received my B.S. degree earned a commission as an Army Officer. I went on to have a great career with numerous awards and decorations. I look back on those early years and am extremely thankful, I wised up. I'll never forget what my father said before he died and I was an officer. " son, I knew you would be a big crook or become somebody successful. I am glad you didn't become a crook." The 70s was my time for growth.

Follow your dreams!

You know I’d go from rags to riches, if you would only say you care

One of my favorite lines 😊

Really? If you don't mind telling how and where it was

Was he any good?

You got proof to back up this claim

Criminal respect is like raping a woman. R U A loser? Criminal respect is like child porn. R U A LOSER?

@@robertrodriguez787 Criminal respect is like child porn.

@@robertrodriguez787 Yeah! Proof

thank you, in no way was he a respected gangster

Proofread

It's really a shame, he was an alcoholic and Stern encouraged his drinking.

Schnook*

He was a grass

​@bizcut yeah, a snook is fish

Ramen noodles with ketchup

He order spagethi and sauce and got noodle and ketchup. The thing about it spagethi was creatted in asia

Sam with Sammy the Bill most people would disagree but they follow one story. Supposedly John was gonna take him out and snitch on him and things he did. So who in earth would not try and do it first? Why should Sammy have sat back knowing that? Now if it wasn’t that way, I would look at Sammy as a snitch

@@gporr7004 Yeah, I don't know too much about Sammy the Bull story, but from my limited knowledge, he was one of Gotti's top earners, and did a lot of his dirty work too, so I'm not sure why Gotti would want to take him out. Also, it may have happened, but I've never heard of a Don turning snitch, so I doubt Gotti would have snitched on Sammy. Most likely Sammy snitched to get a lighter sentence, and made up the story Gotti was gonna kill him to look better in the media.

@@idonthavemonkey could be? But Gotti was no ordinary Don either

It's not open to interpretation, you know what oath you're taking, you can't say I give up because it's turned too dangerous and expect to walk away, Sammy was a sociopath and a coward, like most of them

@@geedee1264 Maybe for made guys, but what about associates like Henry Hill? He never took an oath. I don't fault him for snitching at all.

Thank you! Goodfellas, without a doubt, a legendary movie and, like you said, there's a great soundtrack

And willing to put a gun in someone's mouth and make them do what they wanted them to do. Those guys were nothing but scum. Scorsese did a good job giving them some charm. All heartless thugs

Thank you for your support! You have no idea how right you are. I really have no goal to make a channel about mafiosi, although I will still publish videos about some famous mafiosi from time to time (a video about Al Capone is coming out soon). The purpose of the channel is to make videos about criminals. This includes con artists, mobsters, gangsters, drug dealers and serial killers. I may have taken on too much of a burden, but I think all of these topics will be of interest to my viewers. Usually everyone makes channels about either murderers or mobsters. Maybe that's right, but personally, I'm interested in all of these topics at once, and I want to share the information with all of you!

Agree!

​@showcrime if you do a video on Al Capone you will most likely have to mention Elliott Ness . It used to be a little known fact but lots of books have been released about it. After All the success Ness had with the untouchables he was put in charge of solving and arresting a brutal and savage serial killer but he never did he failed

@@jplonsdale7242 Thanks for the tip! The Capone video has been on the channel for a while now and it talks about Elliott Ness as well.

@showcrime I just discovered your channel last night so I'll look forward to working my way through your videos and finding that one. I think the serial killer was called the mad butcher he was a savage and would chop bodies up into pieces

*The Rattest Rat story Eva told🐀

Michael likes to exaggerate and glorify himself for his image it’s how he makes a living

everyday it seems more and more...are on youtube...

Far fewer than street gang members

No gangsters on RU-vid just stool pigeons

@@pmaigotthat7211many street gang members are kids…

@@chasecooper1740 and many arent

It's probably an AI voice generator

There is nothing romantic about it, they are disgusting backstabbing degenerates...don't let the movies fool you.

Jimmy was hard as they come. Jimmy was the guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies. It's just too bad he couldn't stick Karen and Henry in that freezer.

@@georgeedward1691 How tough do you need to be to stuff an infant into a refrigerator & get off on hearing their death agony as they freeze? Fuxake. He was a psychopathic thief.

Torture is what all kids crave!

@@georgeedward1691 RUA bottom feeder?

Thank you! Your comment is like a mountain off my shoulders! 😉

@@showcrime That guy is Pat the Cat from Philly.

@@rileyfox4001 Yes, it is. The strange thing is that not one, but indeed many Internet sources have stated with absolute certainty that it is Billy Batts

@@showcrime I have seen the photo used a lot in reference to both mobsters.Nevertheless, it obviously is not Billy Batts as those eyeglass frames were not in use in 1970. The style had not come out yet.

Johnny Sack’s brother-in-law over heah!

Not enough bottomfeeders online, Cupcake? Whatever will you do? OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you really know Paul Vario? Please, tell something else!

@SHOWCRIME Their was a gentleman named Phil Basile who owned a few clubs in Island Park. One club was called the Action House. Very big groups would perform there. When Henry got out of jail, he " worked " for Phil. The Action House became Speaks, then 50 Broadway, then Industry. Their is another You Tube channel called Mooneys Dash Cam. He actually goes to Paul's house.

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This quote comes from people who know nothing about the mafia 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

He has a newer family after divorcing Karen. Watch the 'pilot' named "Please Don't Kill Henry!"

You’re right. But the fact is that most people of not all out there calling these people snitches and rats would be the first people to spill the beans out of fear. Easy to talk from outside the box.

No it's not backside we aren't swearing oaths of allegiance and to martyrdom to these criminal organisations? If you don't realise there's an 80 percent chance you're going to be killed by them before you prick that finger or whatever, then you're an idiot and I think it's pathetic to then run to the police because they threaten to do to you what you have been doing to others for them