He was the kind of mobster audiences rooted for.
Henry Hill, the crime family associate whose escapades and epic betrayal of his fellow wiseguys was immortalized in Martin Scorsese's classic 1990 drama, Goodfellas, died Tuesday of an undisclosed illness in a Los Angeles hospital.
The news was confirmed by Hill's website, GoodfellaHenry.com, which said in a statement, "He leaves friends and family behind who enjoyed (?) his roller coaster vigor and enthusiasm for life and laughs. He will be missed."
