The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice, and the Road to Reinvention (31 page)

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Authors: Holly Madison

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To my husband, Pasquale, and my daughter, Rainbow, for all your love and support.

To the always amazing Leslie Bruce. Thank you for your hard work, insight, wisdom, and talent, and of course, for all the good times!

To everyone at HarperCollins, thank you for the amazing opportunity. To Denise Oswald, for once again being such an amazing editor and helping me shape this story into what I wanted it to be. To Emma Janaskie, Trina Hunn, Joseph Papa, Kendra Newton, Michael Barrs, and Mumtaz Mustafa, for all your hard work and dedication.

To Matthew Elblonk, for your tireless support, for all your hard work in making this book happen, and for seeing it through to the end.

To Max Stubblefield, for all your hard work and support and for making this book possible.

To Sue Madore, for all your hard work and amazing ideas!

To Darin Frank and Jason Richman.

To Robert Earl, Amy Sadowski, and the staff at Planet Hollywood for providing me with an amazing home and an abundance of wonderful memories during my first few years in Vegas.

To Jerry Mitchell, Scott Zeiger, Brian Becker, Jayna Naegle, Nick
Kenkel, Kristin Johnson, and the entire cast and crew of
Peepshow
. What an amazing experience!

To Josh Strickland, Angel Porrino, Laura Croft, Claire Sinclair, Bridget Marquardt, Nick Carpenter, Stacy Burke, Jason Verona, Steve Flynn, Vic, MJ, Becca, Sal, Katie, Sergio, Ross, Breslin, Tracy, and everyone who worked on
Holly’s World
for documenting and sharing some of the adventures included in this book.

To Lisa G., Steve Weiser, Carmine Scialfo, and the crew at
Extra
.

To Ryan Astamendi for the wonderful cover photo, and to Arianna Garcia and Francisco Pinto for the lovely makeup and hair.

To Gina, Virginie, Nadira, and Aminata for all your help while I was busy writing this book.

To my family and friends and Liberace’s ghost.

To the city of Las Vegas. What a wonderful place to find oneself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Holly Madison
is the author of the #1
New York Times
bestselling memoir
Down the Rabbit Hole.
She spent five seasons on the #1 rated E! hit reality show
The Girls Next Door
before starring in her own hit E! series,
Holly’s World.
Holly divides her time between Los Angeles and Las Vegas with her husband and daughter.

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ALSO BY HOLLY MADISON

Down the Rabbit Hole

CREDITS

Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Cover photograph © Rynn Astamendi

Author photograph © by Denise Truscello

COPYRIGHT

Some of the names and identifying details regarding certain characters have been changed in order to protect privacy. Any resemblance to persons living or dead resulting from changes to names and identifying characteristics is coincidental and unintentional.

THE VEGAS DIARIES
. Copyright © 2016 by Holly Madison. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-245704-2

ISBN 978-0-06-257138-0 (Barnes & Noble signed edition)

ISBN 978-0-06-257145-8 (Target signed edition)

EPub Edition MAY 2016 ISBN 9780062457059

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