Izabella St. James (born 25 September 1975) is a television personality and a former girlfriend of

Hugh Hefner Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Playboy'' magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obsc ...

, 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 2006, about activities at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.

Biography

Izabella St. James was born in Kraków, Poland, when that country was under

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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

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for five years while she attended high school, and graduated with an award for academic excellence. After high school, she moved to Montreal, Canada, 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. She then attended Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. She finished law school in December 2001, earning her

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degree by graduating a semester early, having completed study abroad programs at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, and at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

in her native Poland. However, she did not complete the bar examination the following February. In September 2000, she met

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. 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. In 2015, she starred in the first season of the Polish reality TV series called ''Żony Hollywood'' ("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".

Books

*''Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion'' (2006),

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Selected filmography

Film

*''The Goods: The Don Ready Story'' (2009) *'' Ninja Cheerleaders'' (2007) *''Thunder Over Reno'' (2007) – Paige Raider

Television

*'' Bernie Mac'' *''VH1 Fabulous Life of Hugh Hefner'' *''MTV Cribs Playboy Mansion'' *'' The Surreal Life'' – Season One, The Wedding and Goodbye *''Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration'' on A&E *''

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References

External links

Izabella St. James official website
* * Perseus Book
Izabella St. James author page for ''Bunny Tales'''' Bunny Tales'' on amazon.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:St. James, Izabella 1975 births Living people American film actresses Polish emigrants to the United States American memoirists McGill University alumni Pepperdine University School of Law alumni 21st-century American actresses American women memoirists