Once Upon a Star: Celebrity kiss and tell stories Paperback – March 26, 2012

Enjoyed this book.. I admire her honesty.. it’s not always easy to admit our mistakes and to learn from them. I think she has definitely lived a charmed life but in the end we are all looking for the same things

I heard an interview with Peggy on the radio, and wanted to hear more about her escapades so I ordered the book. It's basically chapter after chapter of "I'm so hot, I locked eyes with (insert celebrity name here) and we went to his bedroom (or private plane, or back of the bar) and had hot passionate sex". That's okay, except this book could really have used an editor. It was one of the most poorly written excuses for a book that I've ever read. Add to that the fact that the author doesn't seem to have any real insight into herself, and you have a somewhat boring read. At some point, she gets bored with movie stars and musicians, so she decides to try out a professional athlete. Genius. After reading this book, I get the impression of a very vapid but very sexy blonde who, by virtue of her incredible good looks, drove every man around her into a hot lather, but never really connected with the men in any meaningful way, nor they with her. Entertaining because of the descriptions of the different celebs, but so poorly written that I could barely manage three stars.

Very few of us have the opportunity to walk in the realm of stars, and those who do tend to keep the most tantalizing stories of that life to themselves. Maybe they don't want to draw attention to themselves, or maybe the simply value their privacy; either way, there's much to be told, and Trentini certainly doesn't pull any punches when letting on what every celebrity stalker wants to know: who has it in for who. Trentini's account paints the world of Hollywood in a way that is highly speculated about, but never quite brought to public eye.This biographical account uses each chapter to detail her encounter with a single celebrity, beginning with Sylvester Stallone and ending with Brit Michaels. While the episodic nature of the biography doesn't take into much account the details surrounding the former actresses career, that's the last intention she had with this novel. Simply put, this is a tabloid junkie's dream novel, chronicling sexual encounters the likes of which are heavily speculated but never confirmed.The novel's biggest strength and drawback is its prose which isn't phenomenal by any standard. Some readers may be put off by the simple storytelling techniques employed here, but anyone with an interest in the stories the author wishes to tell can and will overlook this shortcoming, instead becoming engrossed in this "underground" world of Hollywood. Some of the encounters are surprising, and some may seem typical of the actors, but each story does justice to the cravings of the target audience.Final verdict? The title alone will tell you if this is the novel for you. As I film fan, I would certainly recommend it to anyone who shares that interest. At the very least, it may educate you on what to expect if you ever seek out a Hollywood career.

When I first started reading the Once Upon a Star, I admit I was intrigued because I am a fan of most of the stars she slept with. The longer I read it, the more I noticed the grammar errors, misspelling of names and other factual errors. I noticed that Ms. Trentini self published the book and wondered why she could not sell her story to a publisher. Then I started checking the facts. So many things did not add up. She says she slept with Johnny Depp when he was making Don Juan DeMarco, and then they never saw each other again because River Phoenix died at the Viper Room - and Johnny was probably so overwrought that he never called her again. Well, River Phoenix died at the Viper Room in 1993 - a year before Don Juan DeMarco was made.Ms. Trentini also describes a relationship with Vince Neil. She mentions that she met Skyler, Vince's daughter. As they were breaking up, she says Skyler was diagnosed with a brain tumor, when in fact, she died of kidney cancer. It made me begin to suspect the whole book as a lie... maybe some one night stands but mostly fantasy. It looks as Ms. Trentini has made her living selling herself. In the movies she "acted" in, she was topless or naked. It sounds to me like she is/was a desperate girl, intent on being thin, drinking vodka tonics, clubbing, maybe sleeping with celebrities and taking her clothes off for a living! Her title of the book describes her best... "Once Upon a Star."

I think this book actually deserves 0 stars but that's not an option. Apparently those readers who gave this book 5 stars don't actually know anything about the stars she tries to get us to believe she was with. I was very intrigued with the book at first, but I soon realized that she was making it up and stopped reading it. I don't know Vince Neil, I've never met him. I am a huge Motley fan and I have read "The Dirt" so many times that my copy is literally falling apart. It was during the section in which she is describing her affair with him that I realized she made everything up. She got very small details wrong, like his ex-wife's name. She claims to have been with him at the time that his daughter passed away and if that was the case, she would have known that she died from a tumor in her kidney's and not a brain tumor. To write about something so horrific, and yet portray it so inaccurately is just wrong. In "The Dirt", Vince wrote very intimately about his daughters passing and I'm pretty sure he didn't get it wrong. At that point of this book I realized that everything about it is complete bulls**t and I refused to finish it. We have all had fantasies about being whisked away by a celebrity, but the rest of us don't write them down and try to pass them off as the truth. Like I said earlier, those readers with the 5 star reviews were just looking for a juicy story and didn't know enough about said celebrities to get that this was complete fiction passed off as non-fiction. On principle alone, I think Ms. Trentini should just give me my $2.99 back because I could have gotten greater enjoyment out of watching it being flushed down the toilet.

I found this more enjoyable than expected. The author told a good story and couldn’t put it down. Exiting, raunchy and a little bit sad. Found myself quite moved at the end. It’s a strange and fascinating world of celebrity & wealth. If you are lucky there is talent to see you through. It is not everyones’s choice of lifestyle. However this highlights the extreme lifestyle and underlying loneliness of many involved who are left to explore the most basic human connection of lust and sex. It gives a thrill, blocks out reality and satisfies them for a while. Not really an ideal to aspire too. Yet fame and money is, often without talent something many young people aspire to. Even the most talented have fallen. Best of luck with that!

A very entertaining read, had it's exciting moments. Makes one wonder. My reading speed certainly sped up at times. Very happy to have read it.

Once started I could not put it down....I am ashamed of myself haha

Although I continually wondered why the author was so promiscuous, i must say it certainly was fun to ride along with her on her conquests and live vicariously thru her glamourous adventures. I felt like I was at the party with her hobnobbing with the rich and famous.

You kind of have to feel a little bit sorry for someone like the author who has so little insight into herself and her own life. The main question I had by the end of the book - which she went a little way into answering - was how much can a person hate themselves to put themselves through all this time and time again and not learn from it.She doesn't give many salacious details, and the writing has minor formatting issues and most annoyingly mis-spellings and you can't help but wonder how much better this would have been had she hired a ghost writer to help with this. It does grate after a while how every man she sleeps with is the 'best ever' and that over and over she confuses lust for love (although I wonder if that's just self-preservation from being called certain names that I'm sure Amazon wouldn't allow me to use but would imply she slept around considerably). She doesn't seem at all embarrassed by the number of times she writes that because they were great in bed then that must somehow make them soul mates although occasionally she lets the mask of self-delusion drop when she writes about the death of one celebrity's child and how she 'knew' it 'wasn't her place' to contact him.Had she been a bit more honest (or had more insight) about how these relationships really made her feel, rather than 'tra la la laa on to the next one' this would have been an incredible book.That said, it's a very easy book to read and the short stories (each celebrity is a chapter) make this a fantastic book for dipping into or when you need a bit of light reading.Of course, what we really all want to know before buying this book is how much detail does she reveal about the famous men she slept with? Well, in bed they're all super studs, every one of them, every time, without exception which seems unbelievable. The writing of the love scenes is a little along the lines of raunchier Mills and Boon romance books (ie: not very raunchy at all).However, what she writes about the lifestyles of the celebrities and the casual sexual behavior is eye opening. The celebrities she includes are: Sylverster Stallone, Vince Neil, Billy Idol, Mick Jagger, Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp, Jack Wagner, Kevin Costner, David Cassidy, Mark Messier, Bret Michaels, Sting and Sean Penn.I could have done with a little more honesty in this and I'd like to know if she ever found her happily ever after, but maybe she just isn't the reflective type?