A Miami model when photographer Bunny Yeager introduced her to Hefner in 1958, Joyce Nizzari became his girlfriend, a Playboy cover girl and one of the first Bunnies at the Chicago Playboy Club. "I don't think Hef and I dated very long, really," she says, "but we have remained very good friends over the years. I got married not too many years after we attended President Kennedy's inaugural ball in 1961." 

Joyce married Jack Hogan, who starred on the TV series "Combat," and moved to Hawaii. The couple had a son and a daughter but later divorced. Joyce married again, but the pair split in 1991. "In between," she says, "I worked for a lot of airlines." For a time she owned a video store in Hawaii, but when her daughter got a job transfer to California, Joyce relocated to the Los Angeles area. There she's a frequent guest at movie screenings and holiday parties at Playboy Mansion West. 

Even though her active Playmate and Bunny experiences were long ago, Playboy has always continued to be part of Joyce's life. At one time she roomed with Janice Pennington. "That was before Janice became a Playmate. We worked for Barry Ashton's nightclub act at the Statler Hilton. Later on, I was visiting Janice one day when her sister Ann, who was also a Playmate, came over. My second husband told me much later that it was one of the highlights of his life: being the only man in a room full of Playmates."


PLAYBOY APPEARANCES: Centerfold, December 1958; "Playmate Review," January 1959; "16594, Take One," April 1959; "Slick Chick Flick Pick," May 1959; Cover girl, July 1959; "Bunny's Honeys," September 1959; "TV Penthouse," March 1960; "Club Bunnies," August 1960; "Five Favorite Playmates," December 1960; "Playmate Holiday House Party," December 1961; "New Orleans Playboy Club," March 1962; "Playmate Bunnies," July 1963; "Disneyland for Adults," October 1963; "Editor's Choice," December 1963; "Silverstein's History of Playboy," February 1964; "Silverstein's History of Playboy," March 1964; "Playmates Revisited," June 1964; "Readers Choice Top Ten Playmates," December 1964; "Bunnies of Miami," October 1965; "20 Years of Playmates," January 1974; "Bunny Birthday," December 1980; "Women of the Fifties," January 1989; "40 Memorable Years," January 1994; "Bunny's Honeys," May 1994.

PLAYBOY NEWSSTAND SPECIALS: "Best From Playboy #2," January 1968; "Playmates: The First 15 Years," January 1983.

PLAYBOY BOOK APPEARANCES: "The Playmate Book" (1994).

PLAYBOY CALENDARS: 1960, 1961, 1963.

MOVIE CREDITS: "Hole in the Head" (1959); "The Great Race" (1965).

TELEVISION CREDITS: "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1959); "Burke's Law" (1960); "Hawaii Five-O" (1960); "Man From U.N.C.L.E." (1960).