Bunny Tales by Izabella St. James

Author:Izabella St. James
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2011-05-08T21:00:00+00:00

10: Desperate Housemates.

“People do not always argue because they misunderstand each other; they argue because they hold different goals.”

—William H. Whyte

The two years I spent at the Playboy Mansion were full of adventure, partying, scandal, deceit, emptiness, betrayal, and yes, bone-rattling, brainbending fun. We, the girls, created most of this intrigue. What can you expect when you put seven girls from completely different walks of life under one roof? The answer can be found in just three words: Drama. Drama. Drama! Everyone wanted to know if we got along. “Yes,” and, “It’s like a sorority,” were the answers we gave MTV Cribs. Emma and I are jumping up and down on the bed, like at some ongoing slumber party. We lied. What were we supposed to say? “The group is totally divided, and the range of feeling goes from tolerance to pure hate?” No, we couldn’t say that, it would shatter Hef’s naïve quest for “harmony” in the group. It pains me to watch that segment to this day. “We are a family,” Hef used to say. As my insides turned at the comment, I would mutter under my breath, “I have no trailer trash in my family.” The relationship among all the girls was the worst thing about living at the Playboy Mansion. It was a place where everyone avoided the truth. The Mansion created an atmosphere of distrust and insecurity. It was what eventually drove us out.

When screenwriter Scott Silver (8 Mile) came out to interview us for Hef’s biopic, I’m sure we sounded like the women in The Stepford Wives. We couldn’t answer his questions truthfully; we couldn’t tell him how we felt, what really went on at the Mansion. We thought that even if he didn’t tell Hef what we said, someone might overhear us and, either way, Hef would find out and we would be in trouble. I remember feeling bad for Scott; he was going to write a screenplay based on what we wanted him to think and not the truth. I see Holly, Bridget, and Kendra on television promoting their new show, The Girls Next Door, and saying they all get along so well, but I don’t believe it.

At the heart of my bunny life at the Playboy Mansion lay the complex network of relationships among the girls, which is key to understanding the whole experience. The tone was set right at the beginning of the new era, in early 2002, when Holly replaced Tina Jordan as Hef’s main Girlfriend. Holly got that position because no one else wanted the job. It meant sharing a room with Hef and having a regular sexual relationship with him; it meant more than what one considers standard sex. Apparently that was the requirement. Most of us were there for a good time, not a long time and not to be Hef’s chambermaid. We wanted to have fun, party, shop, flirt with boys, and have the least amount of supervision from Hef—we didn’t have grand delusions about being put in Hef’s will.

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