(CNN) -- The man immortalized by Martin Scorsese's film "Goodfellas" has died. Henry Hill, a former member of the Lucchese family of mobsters, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to a statement on his website. Hill passed away one day after his 69th birthday. The cause of Hill's death has not yet been released. The self-proclaimed mobster first came onto the media scene in the nonfiction book "Wiseguy," by journalist Nicholas Pileggi, detailing the "never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster -- his violence, his wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistresses, his code of honor," according to the book's back cover.
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Then man who inspired mobster film, "Goodfellas," passed away at the age of 69 Tuesday
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Hill was a gangster, turned police informant whose story was immoratlized in Martin Scorsese's film
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He lived in relative obscurity until the film's popularity drew him out of hiding
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Hill's longtime companion, Lisa Caserta, told media he died surrounded by family members
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