Karen Hill (née Friedman) (born circa 1947) is one of three daughters of a strict Jewish family and grew up in Nassau County, New York. In 1965 she was working as a dental hygienist, and after work she and Dana Shapiro would go to the Villa Capra in Cedarhust at 488 Chestnut Ave. for drinks. It was there that she first met Henry Hill, while on a double date with Shapiro and Paul Vario, Jr.