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LOS ANGELES —Henry Hill, who went from small-time gangster to big-time celebrity when his life as a mobster turned FBI informant became the basis for the Martin Scorsese film “Goodfellas” — starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta as Hill — died Tuesday. He was 69.
Girlfriend Lisa Caserta said Hill died of complications from heart problems.
An associate in New York’s Lucchese crime family, Hill told detailed, disturbing and often hilarious tales of life in the mob that first appeared in the 1986 book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family,” by Nicholas Pileggi, a journalist Hill sought out shortly after becoming an informant.
