Karen Friedman Hill
| Karen Friedman Hill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Karen B. Friedman January 16, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) |
Henry Hill (1965–1989) |
| Children | Gregg Hill Gina Hill |
Karen Friedman Hill (born January 16, 1946) is an American socialite, known for her involvement in the mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The events of their life were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books.
She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island around the Five Towns, the daughter of Jewish parents. She has two sisters, Ellen and Cheryl.
She met Henry Hill through mutual friends, and at the time of their meeting she was working at a dental office. Her parents did not approve of their relationship at first and later insisted that he convert to Judaism, which he falsely claimed he did. They eloped in North Carolina in 1965, when Karen was 19, and later had a formal Jewish ceremony. The couple had two children, Gregg Hill and Gina Hill. Initially after their marriage, Karen and Henry moved in with Karen's parents at their home in Lawrence, New York.
Through the 1970s, the Hill family was involved in organized crime, through which they became very wealthy and lived extravagantly. Henry Hill then became an informant to the FBI, which caused Karen and the children to enter the Witness Protection Program, where they were given new identities and lived in numerous locations through the 1980s.
In 1989, Henry and Karen divorced after 25 years of marriage. Due to his numerous crimes while in witness protection, the family was expelled from the program in the early 1990s.
Karen has remained out of the limelight since the family came out of the Witness Protection Program. She and Hill eventually parted ways, last living together in Rockville Centre. Their divorce was finalized in 2002. After their divorce, he remarried and had another child.
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