For much of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) is a rising star in the underworld. A gangster since he was a child, Henry seems to have a natural proclivity for a life of ...

Late in 'Goodfellas,' there's a hilarious interaction between Henry Hill and his drug carrier Lois. She had a real-life counterpart.

Toward the end of 'Goodfellas,' a supremely wired Henry Hill nearly crashes his car on his way to the hospital. Hill's real-life experience was similar.

From drugs to violence to betrayal, the real-life story of Karen Friedman Hill and her mobster husband Henry Hill was much darker than what "Goodfellas" depicted.

To celebrate 30 years of GoodFellas, read Empire's 2010 interview with the man it was based on – the one and only Henry Hill.

Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta in “GoodFellas.” ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett C He didn’t meet the real Henry Hill before playing him, though.

Henry Hill, 65, faces two $25,000 arrest warrants. He says he wasn’t aware he needed to be present in court Wednesday and had asked for a new hearing date because he was having hernia surgery.

Director Martin Scorsese didn’t want Ray Liotta to meet his character’s inspiration, mobster Henry Hill. But they caught up after “Goodfellas” came out in 1990.

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Mob rat Henry Hill — who was immortalized in the movie “Goodfellas” and booted from the witness protection program — died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long illness, TMZ reported. He was 69.

Scorsese wrote the script with Nicholas Pileggi, adapting his first-person account of real-life mob informant Henry Hill, entitled Wiseguy.