Product Description

What happens in the Mansion, doesnt stay in the Mansion! How did I get here? I was raised a nice Catholic girl in Ontario, Canada. I am an only child whose parents lavished their attention and resources on me. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree and a law degree, and Im studying to take the California bar. I am comfortable with my own sexuality, responsible for my own orgasm, and have never been sexually or emotionally abused. And yet for two years, I lived at the infamous Playboy Mansion, rolled in a posse of seven succulent beauties, and was a co-girlfriend of the father of the sexual revolution and the world's largest living hedonist. What is wrong with this picture? The Bunnies. The Girlfriends. The Mansion. The Grotto. The Myth. The Man. The Fantasy. The Reality. Izabella St. James left colder climes for the beaches of Malibu. Young, blond, and pretty, she was looking for fun, and the SoCal nightlife was a powerful magnet. Out clubbing one night, she met Hugh Hefner and his friends. Beyond the silk robe and age-proof good looks, Hugh was a genial man who invited Izabella to join his group of friends and then to move into the world-famous Mansion as one of Hefs girlfriends. (Plural. ) Bunny Tales is Izabellas story-of a party girl who discovered what work it is to play all the time. Plastic surgery, gorgeous clothes, cool cars, and a generous weekly allowance are the perks of Mansion life, but Hefs girlfriends are a clique, a sorority, a group of best buds, and bitter rivals, the worst of high school in an adult party circuit. Izabella was witness to the growing pains of an empire-and legend-built on a revolution long over. Like the best relationships, Bunny Tales is honest and fun, revealing and real, satisfying and surprising.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340424 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
'a riveting read... the Polish-born St James cuts crisply through the bunny fluff to deliver, with Slavic bluntness, a deliciously bitchy memoir of her time behind closed doors at the Playboy mansion... Mean Girls, eat your heart out"!!!'
--The Sunday Times, 19th July 2009

"Bunny Tales is subtitled "Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion", but it could have been called "Too Much Information"...It's not a pretty picture that Izabella St James paints and it's certainly not an erotic one...The mansion, though still the stage set for regular Playboy parties, is a decrepit time-warp, unchanged since the 60s. Unlike many of the girls, St James says she doesn't have "a plastic agenda"...She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, and then went to Pepperdine Law School in Malibu where, she believes, she was "like Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, with my blonde hair, pink tanktops, and low-rider jeans". Why did she then go to Hef? Because "how many of us actually get the chance to do something completely out of the ordinary in our lives?"
--The Observer, Sunday 9th August 2009

Customer Reviews

A last ditch effort at fame!
I read this book cover to cover, hoping to find out the real activities behind closed doors at the mansion. Im a big fan of the girls next door, and was aware of some berating of the girls in this novel.
Firstly they only positive comment is that it is well written, however I believe that she had alot of help in articulating her experiences.
However this book is pathetic, with the series doing so well she purposefully attacks Holly and Bridget. Making herself out to be a saint, when often implying she didnt really even like hef that much..acting she is there for something other than love (money?). Then arguing the fact that Holly only wants hef for his money!
She talks of holly's jealousy as funny, but if you were someones girlfriend arent you prone to get jealous?
I think she is very ungrateful and makes snide comments, out of her bitterness of being thrown out of the mansion for her attacks on other girlfriends. The book has no real delivery of what it promises, and makes you angry that someone would take the time to write such slander to make a quick buck.

Give it a read, if you want some gossip. But you could some it up in a few lines. If you are a big girls next door fan, she will make you hate her and love them more for sticking out the B groups constant pathetic atempts at a power struggle they act like they dont want to win.

Astonishingly good written and lots of details - fun reading!
Yes, "Girls next door" is popular and yes, it's good to throw your own book on the market NOW. But admidst all the tactical publishing, the diplomatic writing on the the thin line between truth, idealization (and not making Hef and his attorneys too angry) and finding an excuse for her own choices, Izabella St. James offers us good entertainment and a couple of hours dreaming and silently smiling on the couch. It's no a must, it's far away from literature, but it's definitely worth its price and much much better than I expected (and feared). One Star less only because it's still to discreet and the some of the doors stay closed. But who would've expected otherwise? Buy it, enjoy it, than give it to a friend :-)

Love The Girls of the Playboy Mansion? Then you'll LOVE THIS!!
I am generally quite interested in the Hugh Hefner phenomenon and love Girls of the Playboy mansion. I read excerts from this book last year in the News of the World and it piqued my interest.

A fab cup of tea and a cosy afternoon book, answers EVERYTHING you have ever wanted to know about the Playboy lifestyle and what goes on behind closed doors. It is not however a grubby kiss and tell, Izzabella (the author) is clearly an intelligent graceful woman and has given us enought to answer every question you may have but has kept out the sordid details. (although I want to know who the "$20 million a move club" actor in the prologue is who she talks about!!)

If you love all things celebby and E!'s Girls of the Playboy mansion you will find this a real treat!