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Christie Brinkley Is 'Energized' About 2009
Originally posted 01/18/2009 12:30PM
After her struggles of 2008, namely her messy split from ex-husband Peter Cook, Christie Brinkley is only looking to the future.
"I want to seize the day and take advantage of this year," Brinkley told PEOPLE at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where she unveiled her new "Got Milk?" ad to raise awareness and reintroduce Americans to milk as nature's wellness drink on Friday.
"I am so energized," she said. "I am really looking forward to the inauguration. I see this as a huge time for opportunity. This is the time for change. I am so appreciative of everything I have."
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Christie 'Upset' Over Ex Taking Kids on a Flight
Originally posted 10/11/2008 04:20PM
Christie Brinkley wanted Peter Cook to take their kids out of town to avoid having them see his TV interview about their failed marriage, but the embittered exes couldn't even agree on a mode of transportation.
In the hours before his 20/20 interview aired Friday, Brinkley learned that Cook planned on taking the couple's daughter Sailor, 10, and her brother, Jack, 13, out of town on a single-engine plane.
"Sailor called and said she was scared to get on a small plane," a source close to Brinkley tells PEOPLE.
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Peter Cook: I Am Still the Person Christie 'Raved' About
Originally posted 10/11/2008 09:00AM
Christie Brinkley's ex-husband Peter Cook has finally spoken out since the couple's bitter divorce – and while he owns up to having made a mistake, he maintains he had reasons for his behavior.
“It was my failing,” he admitted to Barbara Walters in an interview with 20/20 that aired Friday. “I was a great father, a great husband, and I failed as a human being… I made a mistake.”
But Cook maintained that he had reasons for his behavior: “I was seeking a connection I could not find in my own marriage,” he said of his relationship with then-teenager Diana Bianchi. “I took the cowardice way out and had an affair instead of approaching my wife and saying, “Ya know what? I’m not happy.”
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Judge Denies Christie Brinkley Restraining Order Against Ex
Originally posted 10/09/2008 04:00PM
A Long Island judge has denied Christie Brinkley's request for a temporary restraining order barring ex-husband Peter Cook from seeing their children this weekend in the wake of his revealing 20/20 interview set to air Friday.
Lawyers for both sides were in court Wednesday to discuss the temporary restraining order.
On Thursday, Brinkley's lawyer, Robert Stephan Cohen, issued the following statement on the judge's ruling: "The court order mandates that since Peter Cook has the children this weekend, his parenting has to be away from his home and he can't expose them to the 20/20 broadcast. Christie Brinkley's sole concern is to protect her children."
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Christie Brinkley Requests Restraining Order Against Ex-Husband
Originally posted 10/09/2008 11:40AM
Christie Brinkley has filed a request for a temporary restraining order and a motion for post-judgment relief against her ex-husband Peter Cook, a Suffolk County, N.Y., official confirms to PEOPLE.
The motion was filed Wednesday – two days before Cook's revealing interview with ABC's Barbara Walters is set to air.
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Peter Cook Speaks Out About Christie Brinkley Divorce
Originally posted 10/07/2008 08:25PM
Three months after their bitter divorce was settled, Christie Brinkley's ex-husband Peter Cook says he was wrongly portrayed in court.
"I'm not the ... pervert that I've been painted to be," Cook tells Barbara Walters in an interview that will air Friday on ABC's 20/20.
Asked why he was speaking out now, Cook, 49, who admitted to having an affair with an 18-year-old assistant and an online pornography habit, tells Walters, "The misinformation that came out during the trial is the elephant in the room. It's the elephant in the room for my kids."
During the marriage, he says, "I wanted a little acknowledgment, a little attention, a little thank you every now and then for my efforts, for the amount of time I took to care for her and my family, for the wealth I was building. Just the tremendous amount of work I was putting into my family. ... My world became her world. It had to be that way."
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Christie Brinkley Surfs to Maximize Time with Her Son
Originally posted 08/05/2008 02:45PM
Rather than worrying about sharing her two young kids with her ex, Peter Cook, Christie Brinkley is focusing on "positive things" – and catching waves.
"This summer, my son is really into surfing. So I've dusted off my old surfboard. And I'm out there with him," she told PEOPLE at the 19th annual Wild West Carnival at Diamond Ranch in Watermill, N.Y., for Einstein College of Medicine of her time with Jack, 13.
"I'm mainly getting beat up. Paddling out, when you've got a big set coming, your arms feel like rubber. But you know you're going to get clobbered if you don't keep going."
And as for whether Brinkley, 54, likes the free time that Cook's allotted "parenting time" with Jack and Sailor, 10, affords her, the model said she's "not really enjoying that yet."
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Christie Brinkley Attends Ex Billy Joel's Show
Originally posted 07/19/2008 12:00PM
Fresh from settling a bitter and very public divorce battle with ex-husband Peter Cook, supermodel Christie Brinkley is finding comfort in the company of another ex – singer Billy Joel, who is also the father of her daughter, Alexa Ray.
After spending the Fourth of July at Joel's Sag Harbor, N.Y., house, Brinkley attended his "The Last Play at Shea, From the Beatles to Billy" concert at New York's Shea Stadium Friday night. (It's the last concert at the ballpark and the last season for the New York Mets, who move into a new home at Citi Field in 2009.)
At the show, Brinkley seemed to enjoy the support of Joel's fans, who clapped for her as she walked by. "Everyone was yelling good job to her as she walked through the stadium," an onlooker tells PEOPLE. "She was so nice and sweet, saying thank you back to people."
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Peter Cook Sorry For Marriage-Ending Affair
Originally posted 07/14/2008 07:00AM
It may be too little, too late – but architect Peter Cook now says he's sorry for the tryst that destroyed his marriage to Christie Brinkley.
In 2006, the discovery of Cook's yearlong affair with Diana Bianchi – a teenage employee at his firm – effectively ended his decade-long marriage to the supermodel.
If he had the chance to do it over, Cook told the Fox News Channel on Sunday, he'd say: "No, I'm a married man."
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Christie Brinkley: Divorce Settlement Is 'All I Ever Wanted'
Originally posted 07/10/2008 12:05PM
An exuberant-looking Christie Brinkley said she "can't really regret" her marriage to Peter Cook, noting that "out of this union came Sailor, my beautiful little daughter."
Triumphantly addressing the media after reaching a surprise settlement Thursday morning in her divorce trial from Peter Cook, Brinkley called the settlement "a very bittersweet moment." She added: "It really is the death of a marriage, but it's also I think a new start for all of us and I'm very pleased with the results today."
Brinkley, 54, received sole custody of the couple's two children, Jack, 13, and Sailor, 10, and gets to keep all 18 properties in the Hamptons – "several" places on Long Island and one house in the Turks and Caicos were being disputed. She also agreed to pay $2.1 million to Cook, 49, who was awarded "parenting time."
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