The man who was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's 1990 hit, "Good Fellas," Henry Hill passed away at 69 yesterday.

Henry’s girlfriend said, “he had been sick for a long time … his heart gave out.” Hill had been suffering from, and fought a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He died in a Los Angeles hospital.

Hill was a Lucchese family member from the 60s through to the 80s. He is most famed for his part in the infamous 1978 Kennedy International Airport heist at Lufthansa, that robbery netted the family $5 million in cash.

After he was arrested on narcotics charges in 1980, Hill began to fear for his life knowing that Jimmy Burke was going to kill him to keep him quiet. After getting out on bail, he was re-arrested as a material witness in the Lufthansa case. He agreed to become an informant. He would later testify against the mafia family. His testimony would lead to 50 convictions.

Hill was placed in Witness Protection, but was later thrown out of the program because of numerous crimes he committed while in the program.

Hill’s life story was put to paper by Nicholas Pileggi in the 1986 non-fiction book, “Wiseguy.” It was that book that was adapted to the big screen in the hit, “Good Fellas” in 1990.

In his later life, Hill would appear numerous times on the Howard Stern Show. He also appeared in many documentaries and was inducted into the Museum of American Gangsters in 2010. A show about Hill’s life was aired in 2011 in National Geographic Channel’s “Locked up Abroad.”

Most recently, Hill was put into the Las Vegas Mob Museum in February of this year. Later, in April he did an interview for “Mobster,” which will air this summer.

He died the day after his birthday.