Izabella St. James

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Izabella St. James
Izabella St. James, Hollywood, California on April 22, 2015
Born (1975-09-25) 25 September 1975 (age 48)
Kraków, Poland

Izabella St. James (born Izabella Katarina Kasprzyk on 25 September 1975) is a writer, actress and a former girlfriend of Hugh M. Hefner, editor/publisher of Playboy magazine. She is best known as the author of a memoir entitled Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion published August 21, 2006, about activities at the famed Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.

Biography

Izabella St. James was born in Kraków in Poland, when that country was under Communist rule. When St. James was ten years old her parents moved to Athens, Greece, where they lived for a year. Her family then moved to British Columbia, Canada. A year later they settled further east in the province of Ontario, Canada. St. James lived in Kitchener-Waterloo for five years while she attended high school, and graduated with an award for academic excellence. After high school, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, to attend McGill University. She started with a double major in political science and history, but switched to a humanistic studies major, and studied art history, classical music, literature and Spanish.[citation needed]

She then attended Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. She finished law school in December 2001, earning her Juris Doctor degree by graduating a semester early, having completed study abroad programs at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain and at the Jagiellonian University in her native Poland. However, she did not complete the bar examination the following February.[citation needed]

In September 2000, she met Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends in a Los Angeles nightclub, and began attending parties at the Playboy Mansion. In January 2002, after finishing law school, St. James became part of Hefner's girlfriend posse, spending nights out and traveling regularly with him and his girlfriends. In April 2002, Hefner invited her to move into the Playboy Mansion and become one of his "official girlfriends". St. James lived at the Mansion for two years, moving out and ending her relationship with Hefner in May 2004.[citation needed]

Since leaving the Playboy Mansion, St. James has been acting and writing. In August 2006, she published Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion, a memoir of her time as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends. She lives in Los Angeles.[citation needed]

In 2015, she starred in the first season of the Polish reality TV series called Żony Hollywood (English Hollywood Wives) which is based on The Real Housewives franchise.

She runs a rescue service for pugs and is known on social media as "The Pug Queen".[1]

Books

  • Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion (2006) Running Press

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-iranian-pug-20170705-htmlstory.html

External links

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