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While Scorsese successfully portrayed the essence of mob life through Goodfellas, he took artistic liberties that sometimes obscured the truth. For example, the film didn’t reflect Hill's involvement in a college basketball point-shaving scandal—an event not crucial to the film’s narrative scope but integral to the real Hill's criminal exploits.
Other omitted stories include Hill's supposed wooing of cosmetics tycoon Estée Lauder while a robbery occurred. These details, while sensational, did not serve Scorsese's aim of consolidating Hill's mob life into a coherent narrative.