It's not a pretty picture that Izabella St James paints and it's certainly not an erotic one ("It seemed to me he just laid there like a dead fish"). The mansion, though still the stage set for regular Playboy parties, is a decrepit time-warp, unchanged since the 60s. "The carpet in the upstairs hallway also had not been changed in who knows how long. Everything was just old and stale. Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding the scent of urine to the general scent of decay."