EXCLUSIVE: Holly Madison was a 'weirdo' who had such a 'Single White Female' obsession with Hugh Hefner she dressed like him, ate the same meals and participated in kinky sex acts other girls refused to do, bunny housemate claims

• Izabella St. James lived at the Playboy Mansion alongside Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner for two years from 2002
• She says Holly's claims about Hefner in her bestselling book Down the Rabbit Hole are outrageous 
• 'If it was the "house of horrors," she was the most willing and happy participant of it all,' Izabella says 
• Holly had such a fixation on Hefner, she transformed herself into a Marilyn Monroe lookalike and would sabotage any girl that got in her way 
• Holly is out to seek 'revenge' on Hefner for not marrying her, Izabella says
• If Hef ate Campbell's Chicken Soup from the can everyday for lunch with crackers so did Holly 
• 'We have seen her do some extremely humiliating things sexually - part of her bitterness and humiliation comes from that'
• WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 

By Ryan Parry West Coast Correspondent For Dailymail.com and Jon Boon For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:17 EST, 15 July 2015 | Updated: 13:46 EST, 15 July 2015

It's currently the biggest selling non-fiction book in the US, sitting proudly at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

Former Playboy Bunny Holly Madison's sensational tell-all memoir 'Down the Rabbit Hole' has grabbed headlines with a string of sensational claims about millionaire magazine publisher Hugh Hefner.

But today, in a scathing attack by a fellow former Playmate, Holly's version of events have been torn apart and branded a pack of 'lies'.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online, Polish beauty Izabella St. James has shot down the former Dancing with the Stars contestant, saying she fabricated her experiences in the Playboy mansion, merely in a cynical bid to maximize sales of her book.

She insists Holly is out to seek 'revenge' on Hefner for not marrying her when in fact she was a 'weirdo' and an 'outsider' in the Beverly Hills mansion and held a bizarre 'Single White Female' obsession with the Playboy boss.

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Meowch: In her sensational new book 'Down the Rabbit Hole' former Playmate Holly Madison (left) has made sensational claims about Hugh Hefner. But ex Playmate and Polish beauty Izabella St. James (right) has shot down the former Dancing with the Stars contestant, saying her fabricated experiences in the Playboy mansion are merely a cynical bid to maximize sales of her book. This photo was taken on the Playboy grounds, in the garden, where they would sunbathe. This was soon after Holly's second boob job, says Izabella

Twins: Says Izabella: 'That maroon robe that he wears, she had one made so she could match him. Whatever shirt he wore out, she tried to match. She knew that he was enamored with Marilyn Monroe, so she went and got her haircut and makeup done like Marilyn, which totally backfired'

Izabella  lived in Hefner's luxury home for two years from 2002 alongside Holly and claims the Girls Next Door star happily took part in kindky acts that none of Hefner's other girlfriends would perform

Izabella, 39 - who lived in Hefner's luxury home for two years from 2002 alongside Holly - claims the Girls Next Door star happily took part in sexually depraved acts that none of Hefner's other girlfriends would perform.

She also claims 'delusional' Holly, 35, had such a fixation on millionaire Hefner, she transformed herself into a Marilyn Monroe lookalike and would sabotage any girl that got in her way.

Worse still, Izabella believes Holly made up claims that she was suicidal, in another cynical attempt to garner more publicity for the book.

'She is selling the book by making outrageous claims, and doing tell-all interviews where she says he degraded her and calls it the house of horrors,' explains Izabella.

'If it was the house of horrors, she was the most willing and happy participant of it all.

'When you want something so badly, lose all dignity, and cross all moral boundaries to get it and then turn it around to make yourself a victim, and maybe she has made herself believe this, but I feel sorry for Hef that she is just so completely ungrateful.

'She throws him under the bus without giving him any credit. It is almost disrespectful and mind blowing to be so delusional.'

Izabella, who has read Holly's book and who penned her own memoir 'Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion' in 2006, is also considering legal action against Holly because of similarities with her own published work.

Possessive: Holly wraps herself around Hef, who can't seem to keep his hands off Izabella's thigh

Izabella with Justin Timberlake, who visited the Playboy mansion more than once during Izabella's time there

Holly Madison dishes about her new tell-all book to GMA

The former model also cannot believe the reality TV star's stance of playing the victim - especially as she's raked in hundreds of thousand of dollars from being a Playboy Bunny.

In the book, Holly describes being bullied by the other girlfriends and manipulated, put down and controlled by Hefner who would impose 9pm curfews on the girls and forbade them from gaining any financial independence or having interests outside the mansion.

'It took years for me to realize just how manipulated and used I had been. I could never admit that to myself at the time, because to do so would have been to acknowledge how dark and scary a situation I was in . . . and how very little in control I was,' she writes. This angers Izabella as she believes Holly would be a nobody had Hefner not helped boost her career.

'She portrays herself as a victim,' Izabella said.

'She does not take any responsibility for her choices or actions. Instead, she chooses to vilify Hef, vilify former boyfriend Criss Angel, vilify the friends she never made and the girls who didn't like her.

'It's a self-serving read and I think it is almost like a girl that was never liked is finally having her revenge on the nice, cool kids that didn't accept her in their circle, which I think is a very high school approach. It is a way for her to justify the things she did to get to where she is today, because Holly did some really nasty things.'

In 'Down the Rabbit Hole', Holly accuses Hefner of writing disapproving 'reprimand' letters after they broke up in 2008 and being obsessed with her.

But Izabella believes that's a lie - and in fact it was the other way round.

'Holly chose to just completely lie and omit that she was absolutely, completely obsessed with Hugh,' Izabella said.

'She admits to trying out for Playboy when she was in high school or college, or pursuing that and being very aware of the brand and fantasizing about Marilyn Monroe and Playboy, but completely dismisses how she treated Hugh.

'The reality is, Holly had a calculated plan to get in there and be Hef's girlfriend. She was completely obsessed with him, to the point where she tried to make herself look like him.

Izabella St. James parties with Hefner and popstar Usher.  Izabella says he was a nice guy

'That maroon robe that he wears, she had one made so she could match him. 'Whatever shirt he wore out, she tried to match. She knew that he was enamored with Marilyn Monroe, so she went and got her haircut and makeup done like Marilyn, which totally backfired.'

In the book Holly describes how she broke into tears after Hefner told her he hated her new Marilyn Monroe-inspired look that she had done especially for him – complete with short hair and bright red lipstick.

'I hate the whole look. I hate the makeup and I hate the red lipstick,' Hefner screams at a distraught Holly in the book. 'You look old, hard and cheap.'

Izabella says that's the 'only' part in the book that's true.

'Hugh reacted nastily, he did not think it suited her, and it was not the look he was into,' she said.

'It might have been in 1952, but years later he liked a different look.

'It seems like she takes that rejection and is nasty and vengeful about it. Hef was never that into her. He was never that into Holly.'

In her memoir Holly also admits she did everything to become Hefner's perfect girlfriend and even believed she was in love with him.

'I convinced myself that I could look past his age and appearance,' Holly writes. 'Perhaps we're right for each other…maybe guys my own age just weren't for me, I thought. Maybe I was always meant to one day find Hef. And just like that I was in love.'

But Izabella believes Holly's obsession with Hefner was more sinister.

'She is just like Single White Female,' Izabella explains. 'She stalked him. She would go through his stuff. She tried to look like the ex-girlfriends he liked the most. She kept emulating their looks, his favorite girlfriends from the past.

'She had a dark obsession with Hef, with becoming everything Hef, even to the point where she started eating exactly the same meals as him. Suddenly everything that was his favorite was her favorite.

'He ate Campbell's Chicken Soup from the can everyday for lunch with crackers. All of a sudden, that was her favorite lunch. If he had a muffin with strawberry jam, she wanted a muffin with strawberry jam.

'It was so bizarre and really weird.The girls did not really like her because she was an outcast, and she was a weirdo. She was so obsessed with Hef. No one really found a language with her.

'What was even more bizarre was that we were all made to celebrate their anniversary, from the day she moved into his room and started to have sex with him, with a ridiculous cake, often with their picture on it. She called him Puffin, and he nicknamed her Muffin.'

Gaggle of girls: Hefner liked nothing better than to be surrounded by his bunnies, including Holly, at his left,  and Izabella at his right

Kendra and Holly in archive clip from The Girls Next Door

Izabella says Holly devoted her whole life to Hefner during that period, desperate to please him.

'She never pursued her own goals. Everyday was going through scrapbooks, reading old interviews Hef did, and studying everything about Playboy. She wanted to be Playboy personified,' she said.

Although she fell in love with Hefner, in her book Holly describes how she quickly felt trapped, used and controlled by the 89-year-old and fell into a deep depression.

Izabella says that Holly's resentment towards Hefner could be because of the kinky sexual acts he made her perform on him that none of the other girls would do.

In the book, Holly describes how Hefner forced the girls to take part in a 'repugnant' bedroom routine every Wednesday and Friday after their bi-weekly clubbing nights.

The girls would sit in a semi circle 'in various states of undress' around Hefner while 'graphic porn' was played on two huge TVs, Holly describes.

Hefner would 'tend to his own business' while the girls pretended to make out with each other before he would invite specific girls to have sex with him.

Holly describes how she had sex with Hefner the first time she was invited out with his harem.

She claims she was 'pushed into the action' by one of Hefner's then-girlfriends who had invited her to the night out.

The experience was over 'quickly' before Hefner moved on to some of the other girls before 'finishing off himself'.

Battle of the books: Holly's books is at the top of the chartsm but Izabella claims sokme of the material from her earlier tome was used by Holly

'I have never had a more disconnected experience. There was zero intimacy involved,' she writes.

Holly admits taking part in this routine twice a week but claims this stopped once they started filming for E! Show Girls Next Door

She describes her relief that the bedroom routine stopped, adding, 'Sex was never the highlight of the relationship.'

But Izabella has a different version of events, she said: 'Holly became his main girlfriend by default because no one else wanted that position.

'You are sharing his bedroom. You are sharing his bed everyday.

'Whereas the other girlfriends return to their bedrooms, you have to have sex with him everyday, or when he wants.

'It meant that it also entailed sexual activity that no one else wanted to participate in: anal sex. Hefner like to use dildos and other sex toys on Holly and have her use them on him too. 

'So to speak, she had to take one for the team, and she always did, and we have seen her do some extremely humiliating things sexually and I think part of her bitterness and humiliation and vengefulness comes from that.

'It was very belittling and she was the only one who did that or had to do that. I think everyone looked down on it and looked down on her for having to be in that position.

'I think that is truly the root of where the resentment comes from.

'She became useful to him because from the very beginning she was willing to do things that other girls were not willing to do.

 Magic: After leaving the Playboy mansion Holly began dating illusionist Criss Angel

'He saw the potential in having someone who was slavishly devoted to him.'

Sticking the dagger in further Izabella says now that Holly is married she must have a hard time looking in the mirror and accepting herself.

'I believe that pathetic bitterness, vengefulness and meanness stems from her own unresolved humiliation,' she said.

'I feel bad for her, but she never had to do it if it was so miserable. She stayed there for seven years. I left after two because I had more than enough, and I didn't have to do 10% of what her involvement with him was.'

According to Izabella, who was once linked with soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, Holly was the biggest back-stabber in the Playboy mansion.

And if Holly felt that one girl was getting too close to Hugh, she would do her best to sabotage their chances.

Izabella said: 'Hef had an intolerance for drugs and drug use with the girls, like girls doing coke or meth, and there had been girlfriends who did that and he would instantly kick them out.

'But Holly knew that was a soft spot for him, so whenever she didn't like a girl that came to the mansion trying to be a Playmate, and Holly felt threatened, and Hef thought she was hot, she would say, 'I heard she does coke, did you see how f****d up she was at this party'.

'It was all lies, I knew it was not true, but that was Holly's way of sabotaging those girls.'

Although she witnessed drug use in the mansion, in her book Holly claims she never took part and denies running to Hef about the other girls.

'I quickly learned that complaining about the girls' antics served zero purpose. 'You know the phrase "Don't shoot the messenger"? Well, Hef loved to shoot the messenger. He would make sure to twist any complaint around into my own doing - and I'd end up apologizing to him.

'He cultivated an environment where we were perpetually indebted to him. My priority became remaining in his good graces.'

But Isabella isn't the only former Playboy Bunny not to hold her punches about the model's new book. Kendra Wilkinson, a former girlfriend of Hefner, also waded in  claiming the book was written out of revenge

 Izabella, who was once linked with soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo,  says Holly was the biggest back-stabber in the Playboy mansion

Kendra Wilkinson on Holly Madison's Hefner accusations

She claims in the book how other girls would tell tales about her to Hefner, once even accusing her of drugging one of their drinks on a night out.

Holly describes maxing out several credit cards to be able to buy herself a boob job before moving to LA, and in 2011 took a $1 million insurance policy for her breasts with Lloyd's of London insurance company.

And In her book, she jokes that paying $7,000 wasn't a bad investment in the end.

Izabella recalls a very different story and says Holly lied about her plastic surgery.

She said: 'Holly claims that when she was in college, she had a boob job. She went and got a credit card and had her breasts enhanced. Her parents apparently didn't know.

'Now, I know she arrived with those boobs at the Playboy Mansion. And they were pretty bad. Hef wanted her to get them redone, so she went and got her boobs redone in Beverly Hills.

'She has the cheek to say they're not a bad investment for $7k. Um, no sweetheart, you had them redone at the mansion. That is a lie.

'She might have had them insured for a $1 million, but they weren't the boobs she arrived with at the mansion.'

One of the most startling confessions in Holly's book is the revelation that she felt so depressed living in the Playboy mansion that she felt like committing suicide.

In the book Holly describes laying stoned in a large marble bath tub one evening in 2002 and thinking, 'If I just put my head under the water and take a deep breath in, it will all be over.'

She added, 'Maybe it was the pot and the alcohol but drowning myself seemed like a logical way to escape the ridiculous life I was leading.'

Holly decided not to go ahead and kill herself as she believed Hefner would cover it up as an accident and only one of the other girlfriends - her friend Bridget Marquardt - would so much as 'shed a tear' at her death.

'I think that knowing my death would be in vain convinced me not to go through with it ... in truth I didn't really want to die, but I saw no other way out.'

Holly also talks about how Hefner refused to let her see a therapist about her growing depression as they would just tell her to leave the house.

Eventually she sought professional help anyway and was prescribed the antidepressant drug Effexor.

However, Izabella has no sympathy for her former friend and believes the claims have been made up to gain publicity.

'In my eyes the suicide claims are nothing but a tactic to get media attention and get her book out in the public eye, and it worked,' she said.

'I find it extremely disgusting and irresponsible to use a really serious subject as suicide and know she is using it in an untruthful and tactical way to get press.

'That girl wanted fame and money so desperately, she was not going to leave the mansion, let alone go to the other world. That girl was going nowhere without achieving her goals. You do not have that kind of determination, tenacity, calculated, goal planning tunnel vision otherwise.'

Pouring scorn on Holly's claim Hefner refused her a therapist to help overcome depression, Izabella added: 'Hef would have helped her if that was true. There is a difference between being unhappy because you want to marry Hef and being suicidal, and I think she mocks that, and I resent it and find it disgusting.'

In 2013 Holly married American tour promoter Pasquale Rotella,  who she describes as her 'Prince Charming.' She gave birth to their daughter, Rainbow earlier that year

Holly revealed in her book that she decided to leave Hefner after years of what she describes as abuse and control.

According to the model, Hefner tried to lure her to stay in the relationship by leaving his will out on the bed – which promised her millions.

'The will stated that $3,000,000 would be bestowed to Holly Madison at the time of his death (provided I still lived in the mansion).' Holly wrote.

'But I didn't want it. I actually pitied him for stooping to that level. I couldn't help being offended. Did he really think he could buy me?'

Izabella finds this section of the book 'ironic', she said: 'Hef got Holly to her goals. She says that all Hef ever got her was a little bit of fame. The reality is, he got her everything she has today. Without Hef, no one would know who she is because she does not have the charm or the personality. She is an entire creation of Playboy and The Girls Next Door.'

After leaving the Playboy mansion Holly began dating illusionist Criss Angel before meeting American tour promoter Pasquale Rotella, 40, in 2011 - who she describes as her 'Prince Charming'.

After giving birth to their daughter, Rainbow in 2013, the pair married later that year and Holly says she's the happiest she's ever been.

But Isabella isn't the only former Playboy Bunny not to hold her punches about the model's new book with Kendra Wilkinson, a former girlfriend of Hefner, also waded in.

In the book, Holly describes Kendra as being arrogant, stupid and demanding, and details their public falling out.

But in a People interview, Kendra, 30, claims the book was written out of revenge.

She says Holly wanted to be the only woman for the 89-year-old.

'My perception was that she acted like a First Lady,' Kendra said.

'You know, she had to play a part, play a role every day being there. Like, "I have to be this in order to get this".'

Wilkinson also questioned Holly's motives.

'How could [Holly] want kids and get married to him and then, next thing you know, say these types of things about Hef? It's just out of revenge, and I feel bad for Hef,' she said.

'Holly, you can tell, had this ulterior motive every minute being at the Mansion, and that motive was, it was clear as day, she wanted Hef's kids, she wanted a piece of Playboy and she wanted to marry Hef for, obviously, his will,' Kendra added.

'That didn't happen. So what do you think's going to happen? Revenge. So we're witnessing some revenge here.'

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