Izabella St. James

Izabella St. James (born Izabella Katarina Kasprzyk on September 25, 1975 in Kraków, Poland) is a writer, actress and a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner. She is is best known as the author of a memoir entitled "" published August 21, 2006.

Biography

Izabella St. James was born in Kraków in Poland, during a time when Poland was oppressed by Communism. 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 in 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, St. James 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, where she 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 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 the following February.

In September 2000, she met Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends in an LA club, and began attending parties at the Playboy Mansion. In January 2002, after finishing law school, St. James became part of Hef's girlfriend posse, spending nights out and traveling with Hef and his girlfriends regularly. In April 2002 she was invited to move into the Playboy Mansion and become one of Hefner's 'official girlfriends.' According to her book, St. James stated that Hefner ended their relationship after a dispute with Hefner's other girlfriend, Bridget Marquardt. St. James moved out of the mansion in May 2004.

St. James decided to become an actress and a writer, and began writing a memoir of her time as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, which was published in August 2006.

St. James lives in Los Angeles. She recently filmed roles in two feature films, "Thunder Over Reno" and "Ninja Cheerleaders", and is writing a second book, a novel.

Books

*"" (2006) Running Press

elected Filmography

Film

Upcoming:
*"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
*"Sharon Osbourne Show"

Trivia

* Izabella speaks Polish, English, Greek, Spanish and conversational French.
* A passionate animal lover and activist
* Skydived with the U.S. Army Golden Knights in 2007

External links

* [http://www.izabellastjames.com Izabella St. James official website]
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* Perseus Books [http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0762427396 Izabella St. James author page for "Bunny Tales"]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0762427396/ " Bunny Tales" on amazon.com]
* [http://duggy.com/DUGGY/TORCAST.html Thunder Over Reno]