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1. allthatsinteresting.com › billyBilly Batts' Real-Life Murder Was Too Brutal For 'Goodfellas ...

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   Apr 13, 2024 · The Fate Of Billy Batts’ Murderers And The Full Story That Goodfellas Didn’t Tell. DeSimone did not escape reprisal for William Bentvena’s murder, although the true details of his own gruesome end did not emerge until nearly 30 years later.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_BentvenaWilliam Bentvena - Wikipedia

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   Aftermath. About three months after Bentvena's murder, Burke's friend sold the dog kennel to housing developers, so Burke ordered Hill and DeSimone to exhume Bentvena's corpse and dispose of it elsewhere. [3] . In Wiseguy, Hill said the body was eventually crushed in a mechanical compactor at a New Jersey junkyard, owned by Clyde Brooks.

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   Mar 9, 2024 · After Bentvena walked away, DeSimone turned to Hill and Burke and told them, “I’m gonna kill that motherf**ker.” Lo and behold, two weeks later, DeSimone met Batts at another bar, where he proceeded to pistol-whip and beat Batts to death — or almost to death — with help from Burke.

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   Mar 9, 2024 · Perhaps DeSimone’s most brutal murder came in 1970, during a welcome home party for the formerly imprisoned William “Billy Batts” Bentvena, a made man in the Gambino family. DeSimone became enraged over a comment that Bentvena made about DeSimone having once been a shoeshine boy.

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   Apr 4, 2021 · Tommy did vow to kill Batts that night, but he didn’t actually do it until a few weeks later. On that night, they were at Hill’s place (called the Suite), as in the movie.

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6. entertainment.ie › movies › movie-newsKey Scene: The true story of the "shine box" scene in ...

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   Billy Batts - real name William Bentvena - did crack a joke about DeSimone shining shoes as a child, but the eventual murder didn't happen for another two weeks, on June 11th, 1970 - the...

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   Did Jimmy Burke help Tommy DeSimone kill Billy Batts?

   • Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images As dramatized in Goodfellas, Jimmy Burke helped Tommy DeSimone kill Billy Batts in 1970. Two weeks later, DeSimone and Burke encountered Batts at The Suite in Queens. The insult clearly had not been forgotten, as they then proceeded with the “vicious beating of Bentvena.”

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   Did DeSimone kill Batts?

   • Hill recalls that DeSimone pistol-whipped Batts at the end of the night and beat Batts to death, shouting "Shine these f*cking shoes!" as he did so. Batts' murder, just like in the movie, did eventually lead to the disappearance of DeSimone some nine years later, again all of it with frightening accuracy.

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   Why did Billy Batts ask Tommy DeSimone to shine his shoes?

   • As Hill tells it, at Billy Batts’ welcome back party, Batts made a snide comment to fellow wiseguy Tommy DeSimone, asking him to shine his shoes. DeSimone was notoriously hypersensitive, quick to violence, and a complete loose cannon.

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   Was Billy Batts a real person?

   • Billy Batts - real name William Bentvena - did crack a joke about DeSimone shining shoes as a child, but the eventual murder didn't happen for another two weeks, on June 11th, 1970 - the same date referenced in the movie.

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   Did Tommy kill Batts?

   • Tommy did vow to kill Batts that night, but he didn’t actually do it until a few weeks later. On that night, they were at Hill’s place (called the Suite), as in the movie. When Tommy showed up late and saw Batts, he told Hill he’d be back shortly with a body bag.

   'Goodfellas': How the Killing of Billy Batts Matched the Real Story

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   Who killed Tommy DeSimone?

   • According to the 2015 book Hill published with journalist Daniel Simon entitled The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World, Tommy DeSimone was done in by three bullets from the gun of Billy Batts’ old friend, John Gotti.

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8. screenrant.com › goodfellas-movie-tommy-billyGoodfellas: How The Gambino Crime Family Knew Tommy Killed ...

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   Sep 26, 2020 · In Goodfellas, Tommy DeVito was killed in retribution for the murder of Billy Batts, but how did Batts' people know it was Tommy? Let's take a look. Who told them?!