A PLAYBOY bunny has revealed how she cheated on Hugh Hefner with boxer David Haye.
English model Zoe Gregory, who lived in the notorious mansion, says she could not resist the I’m A Celebrity hunk despite being in a long-term relationship with the lothario magazine founder.
Opening up for the first time about the secret fling, she describes her connection with The Hayemaker as “crazy electric”, adding that he begged her not to leave.
In an exclusive interview, the mum of one said: “I was a bit down at the time because although I was Hef’s girlfriend — and he had made so many of my dreams come true — I didn’t see it as a genuine, loving relationship. I saw it as a job.”
At the time, she was also married to British DJ Chris Paul.
Zoe, 49, said of Chris: “I am not sure I was ever in love with him. Also, he acted as babysitter, looking after my young son Lewis during the week when I was living at the Playboy mansion.
“David was completely different to both of them and he swept me off my feet.
“I had only ever dated Average Joes before then. I’d never been with someone with muscles and such an incredible figure.
“Meeting David helped me a lot at a time when I really needed someone like him.
“Hef was never going to find out about it unless he had me followed, and he never did as far as I know.
“I didn’t tell the other girls at the mansion what happened as they might have used it to turn Hef against me. I didn’t tell my husband either. I didn’t breathe a word to anyone. What happened has always been my secret.”
London-born Zoe met Haye, 43, when he fought fellow boxer Vance Winn in the grounds of the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2003.
The Bermondsey brawler was a then relative unknown in the early stages of his professional career.
But he dispatched the US fighter in just 54 seconds and was later photographed posing alongside the late Playboy mag founder — famous for the debauched parties he held at his £150million mansion.
Zoe was one of a harem of bunnies who shared Hefner’s bedroom, despite the fact he was in his 70s at the time they met and relied heavily on Viagra to perform.
Having moved into the mansion in 2001, she had risen to become Hef’s number two girlfriend by the time Haye found himself in her cross-hairs.
‘I put on a nice bikini’
She said: “I was spying on David from my room — my window faced down on to his trailer in the grounds — and after watching the match and seeing him knocking out that guy in the first round, I thought, ‘OK, that’s hot’.
“I was starving for male attention and David was so macho and tall and handsome.
“His body was incredibly fit. I didn’t normally go for big guys like that, but he really stood out.
“As soon as he had finished with the fight, I put on my make-up, ran down and started flirting with him.
“I said, ‘Congratulations on the win’. He said, ‘My God, you’re from England’.
“I asked him to come around to the side of the house where there were no cameras and people were less likely to see us talking.
“We walked around and he asked me what my story was.
“I told him and I thought he would be grossed out by me being Hef’s girlfriend and it would put him off.
“But I could tell from how he was looking at me that he was feeling it.
“He said, ‘I’m leaving in a couple of days so let’s hang out’. I said, ‘OK, but I’ve got a curfew, I have to be home at night’.
I was starving for male attention and David was so macho and tall and handsome. I don’t normally go for big guys like that, but he stood out
Zoe Gregory
“He said, ‘Come during the daytime, we will be by the pool at the Mondrian hotel’.”
Former Page 3 model Zoe added: “As soon as the next day came, I drove straight over to David’s hotel.
“I put on a nice bikini and I thought we were going to lie by the pool and chat.
“But he was still in his room when I got there.
“I texted him saying, ‘I’m here!’. He replied, ‘Come up to the room first’.
“I had butterflies and I could hear the music playing inside when I knocked on the door, which he opened wearing just a pair of Calvin Klein boxers.
“He was just out of the shower and I could smell his aftershave.
“We had chemistry and that was the beautiful thing.
“We couldn’t even look at each other when we spoke — that is how strong the tension was.
“Ten seconds went by and then he came over and picked me up and threw me on the bed.
“No one had ever done that to me before and I thought, ‘Hero’. It was a hot 15 minutes and, to be honest, it was the best I have ever had — at least at the time.
“It was rampant and crazy and electric.
“David absolutely loved it and afterwards he told me, ‘You can’t leave — I’ve never felt anything like that in my life’.”
Zoe was eventually forced out of the mansion when Hefner ended their relationship in 2004 — but not because of her fling with Haye.
‘Rampant and crazy ’
The mogul, who died aged 91 in 2017, had decided there was too much tension in the house because Zoe and his number one girlfriend Holly Madison had fallen out and were barely speaking.
Zoe’s new memoir, From Britain To Bunny, tells the incredible tale of how she swapped a life of crime in the UK — selling fake ecstasy tablets at raves — to become a top glamour model in the US.
Having separated from hubby Chris, she now lives in Miami, where she works as an attendant on private flights.
Haye and his current partner, model Sian Osborne, have enjoyed a series of high-profile throuples with women, including The Saturdays singer Una Healy.
Zoe said: “David and I kept in touch, but we never got to hook up again because he was always in a relationship.
“I saw him recently in Miami and I told him, ‘I’ve written a book and you’re in it’.
“He said, ‘No way’. I said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s all good things’.”
- From Britain To Bunny is available to buy now on britaintobunny.com.