Robert Germaine

Robert Germaine, Sr. (October 1, 1925 – April 1986), the son of French-Canadian immigrants, was a drug trafficker, burglar, and freelance writer in New York, NY. He was friends with Henry Hill and involved in his criminal activities following the Lufthansa heist up to Hill's incarceration. Germaine was also a friend of Jimmy 'the Gent' Burke. On January 3, 1972, Germaine was one of the gunmen of the Pierre Hotel armed robbery, where he and his seven cohorts, after binding and gagging the hotel employees, taking the Pierre under siege, ransacked the safe deposit boxes, and plundered an estimated $28,000,000 in jewels and cash. (Refer to 'Contract Killer' by William Hoffman & Lake Headley).

He was an excellent stick-up man and burglar. Robert was married and had one son, a chemicals salesman and small-time drug dealer called Robert Germaine Jr. He would later become a confidential informant who provided information led to the arrest of Henry Hill, and even subsequently his own father. At the time of his drug trafficking arrest, Germaine Sr was a self-proclaimed freelance writer working on a manuscript. He is portrayed in Goodfellas as the uncredited drug dealer played by Paul Herman.

Robert Germaine Sr was a self-proclaimed freelance novelist, an expert "stick up man" who accompanied mobsters on hijacking jobs, and later became Henry Hill's partner in his heroin and cocaine trafficking ring in New York. At the time of his partnership with Henry Hill, he was also a fugitive in connection with a botched armed robbery of a multi-million dollar wholesale jewelry store on East Fifty-Seventh Street in New York. He became a close friend of Henry Hill after the latter hired his son Germaine Jr. to do some landscaping at Hill's Rockville Centre, New York home.