Bunny Bonnie Jo Halpin (Chicago Club)

Bunny Bonnie Jo Halpin with Hugh Hefner

Name: Victor Lownes
Email: victorlownes@aol.com
Date: 3rd April 2004
Time: 08:19

Message

Sad news... I received this message from Hef,

"I thought you would want to know that Bonnie Jo Halpin has died. She was badly hurt in a cross-walk hit-and-run accident two or three months ago, but the actual cause of death was apparently an overdose of Vicadin."

Bonnie was one of the original Bunnies at the first Club in Chicago. She was also on the cover of an issue of the magazine in 1962. She kept her looks and was a keen jogger, running several miles every day. (That was probably how she was hit by the driver.)

I kept in touch with Bonnie over the years, and she visited my wife and me in Aspen several years ago. Bonnie Jo had a marvellously appealing ingenuousness that gave her childlike charm that stayed with her into her 60s.