Playground

Playground

Author: Jennifer Saginor

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0061749532

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In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began. You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women catering to your every need. You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who's always there for you. Welcome to the world of Playground, the true story Jennifer Saginor who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion. By the time she was fourteen, she'd done countless drugs, had a secret affair with Hef's girlfriend, and was already losing her grip on reality. Schoolwork, family, and "ordinary people" had no meaning behind the iron gates of the Mansion, where celebrities frolicked, pool parties abounded, and her own father—Hugh Hefner's personal physician and best friend, the man nicknamed "Dr. Feel Good"—typically held court. Every day was a party, every night was an adventure, and through it all was a young girl falling faster and faster down the rabbit hole—trying desperately hard not to get lost.


Inside the Playboy Mansion

Inside the Playboy Mansion

Author: Gretchen Edgren

Publisher: Aurum Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781854105998

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As legendary as the Playboy Playmates themselves are the mansions where hundreds of them partied, worked, and lived. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has led a Caesar-like existence unlike anyone else in the 20th century, and for the first time, the doors to that world are opened to the public in this titillating visual tour of the Chicago and Los Angeles pleasure palaces. Overflowing with archival photographs from Hefner's private collection, the book exposes not only Playmates, celebrities, and luxurious attractions such as the game rooms, the alluring pool and grotto, and the private zoo, but it also depicts an unparalleled, almost mythic lifestyle. By revisiting the fantastical events hosted there over the years, it becomes evident that the Playboy Mansion boasts one of the most enviable guest sign-in books in contemporary times. Of course, the history of life inside the mansions offers a rarely-seen side of the history of the magazine as well.


Bunny Tales

Bunny Tales

Author: Izabella St. James

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1458779874

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When this beach bunny caught the eye of Hugh Hefner at an L.A. nightclub, Izabella St. James was looking for a fun break from studying for the bar. As the latest Girlfriend of the Playboy founder, her ''break'' lasted two years, but life behind the gates of the Playboy Mansion was anything but fun. Sure there were parties, presents, puppies, and plastic surgery; but there was also a curfew, a strict regimen of who sits where on movie night, limited contact with the outside world, and a sex life that was anything but wild and crazy. While the E! reality show, The Girls Next Door, has been a ratings hit, each of the three Playboy Bunnies in the series has since left the Mansion in newsworthy ways: one is engaged to a football player, and Hugh's ''main'' Girlfriend has finally understood that there would be no fairy-tale marriage and family with the man she literally transformed her life for. Izabella was there to witness how each of these relationships formed, where each Girlfriend fell in the pecking - and bed - order, and when, exactly, the fabled life turned shabby and cheap. From catfights to sneaking in boyfriends, from high-profile guests in the Grotto to the bizarre rituals of the octogenarian at the center of the sexual revolution, Bunny Tales is compulsively readable and endlessly entertaining!


Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole

Author: Holly Madison

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-06-23

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0062372122

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The real, untold, and unvarnished story of life inside the legendary Playboy Mansion—and the man who holds the key—from the woman who was Hef’s #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door. A spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner’s #1 girlfriend. But like Alice in Wonderland after she plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion—including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show—quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. Losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide. But instead of ending her life, Holly chose to take charge of it. In this shockingly candid and surprisingly moving memoir, this thoughtful and introspective woman opens up about life inside the Mansion, the drugs, the sex and the infamous parties, as well as what her relationships with her Girls Next Door co-stars, Bridget and Kendra were really like. Holly talks candidly about a subsequent abusive relationship, her own successful television series, and the hard work of healing, including her turn on Dancing with the Stars. A cautionary tale and a celebration of personal empowerment, Down the Rabbit Hole reminds us of the importance of fighting for our dreams—and finding the life we deserve.


Playboy Stories

Playboy Stories

Author: Alice K. Turner

Publisher: Dutton Adult

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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Marquez is but one of the Nobel Prize winners offered here. There is Isaac Bashevis Singer's marvelous story of Holocaust survivors in Miami, and Nadine Gordimer's probing questions of life and death in South Africa.


Everyone's Best Friend at Playboy

Everyone's Best Friend at Playboy

Author: Malorie Mackey

Publisher: First Edition Design eBook Publishing

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781506901244

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What is it like to go from the girl next door to super pin-up or going from the world of pageantry to the world of Playboy? Malorie provides an entertaining read with lots of personal first-hand accounts of what goes on behind the gates at the Playboy Mansion. Everyone's Best Friend at Playboy follows Malorie's personal journey as a young model through the politics, games, and joys of the Playboy Mansion. Malorie spent four years as Hugh Hefner's guest at the Playboy Mansion, and she has some stories to tell. Each day, after she came home from a new adventure, she would sit down and write. Malorie's manuscript is the result of her diligent diary entries of each and every adventure she had or witnessed at Playboy! Her journey starts with corrupt casting directors, that indirectly got her invited to the Playboy Mansion. It shows the inner politics and daily routine of the Mansion itself, with everything inevitably leading to a falling out with the lady of the manor, Crystal Hefner. There is definitely a great story within those dusty old walls, and Malorie does a great job of telling it all. www.MalorieMackey.com Keywords: Playboy, Pin-up, Mansion, Hef, Hefner, Malorie Mackey, Disney, Movie Night, Hugh, Model "


Sliding Into Home

Sliding Into Home

Author: Kendra Wilkinson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-07-06

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1439180938

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KENDRA BARES ALL Fans of the E! smash hit series The Girls Next Door fell in love with sporty Playboy beauty Kendra Wilkinson’s care- free spirit, infectious laugh, and down-to-earth nature. Now that she’s moved out of the world’s most famous bachelor pad and into her own delightfully chaotic world on Kendra as wife to NFL star Hank Baskett and mother to their newborn son, we’ve watched her hilarious antics as she adjusts to domestic life. But how much do we really know about the fun-loving star? In this humorous and optimistic, sometimes heartbreaking, but always unfailingly honest memoir, Kendra reveals the highs and lows of her extraordinary journey. She wasn’t always the quintessential girl next door. Before she was a reality television superstar, Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend, or one of the most popular Playboy cover models ever, Kendra was an athletic tomboy whose father walked out on her family when she was a little girl. She grew into a rebellious teenager with a serious drug habit before she quit cold turkey and beat the odds to graduate from a high school that almost didn’t give her a second (or third, or fourth) chance. Following her rocky teenage years, an out-of-the- blue phone call from Hugh Hefner changed everything. Kendra dishes candidly about life in the Playboy Mansion: the sex, the parties, the show, and even her relationships with her Girls Next Door costars—Hef, Holly, and Bridget. She tells the true story about how she and Hank met and built a relationship in secret while she was still Hef’s girl- friend and a public face of Playboy. Finally, she reflects on the slew of unexpected changes in the short space of a year that have brought her sliding into home from Playboy party girl to wife and mother with a blooming Hollywood career. If you think you’ve seen all of Kendra, think again. She’s only warming up. . . .


Playboy Book of Science Fiction

Playboy Book of Science Fiction

Author: Alice K. Turner

Publisher: Eos

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780061073427

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A unique and intriguing collection of short stories from such contributors as Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Ursula K. LeGuin covers such topics as the Golden Age, New Wave, Cyberpunk, and Virtual Sex. Reprint.


The Bunny Years

The Bunny Years

Author: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1451663277

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Scott's "The Bunny Years" is a collection of memories from women who got their start as the real Playboy Bunnies, working in Hef's clubs across the country.