02:01 AM EDT 10/15/2009
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Christie Brinkley Embarrassed by Latest Divorce Skirmish
Originally posted 10/08/2009 05:25PM
More than a year after their divorce was finalized following a nasty court battle, Christie Brinkley and her ex-husband Peter Cook are headed back to a court for another public showdown, even though Brinkley insists it's the last thing she wants.
"She's really upset and embarrassed that this is going back to court," Amy Jacobs, a spokesperson for Brinkley, tells PEOPLE. "She absolutely did not want to go to court. Peter is literally dragging her to court. She had chosen to look the other way for quite some time when he violated the confidentiality agreement by talking to Barbara Walters and other media outlets."
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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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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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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 Gets the Kids in Surprise Settlement
Originally posted 07/10/2008 08:00AM
A little more than one week after it began, the explosively nasty divorce trial of Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook has come to a sudden end.
After a night of intense negotiations, the warring exes reached a settlement Thursday morning at 6:15 a.m., a source close to the case confirmed to PEOPLE.
In the agreement, Brinkley received sole custody of their 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's agreed to pay Cook $2.1 million.
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Christie Brinkley Hangs with Ex Billy Joel
Originally posted 07/05/2008 06:45PM
Christie Brinkley spent the Fourth of July "blowing off some steam" at ex Billy Joel's Sag Harbor, N.Y., house, a source tells PEOPLE.
Brinkley, whose ugly divorce from Peter Cook has been heating up in court, arrived with daughter Alexa Joel, 20, and "seemed good," says a friend of the supermodel's. "She was just blowing off some steam, being with family. It was just a relaxing little get-together. Nothing special. Just what everyone does on the Fourth."
Another onlooker says Brinkley, Alexa, Billy and about a dozen friends "were having a blast," eating barbecue ribs and corn and sipping white wine.
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Peter Cook's Lawyer: Christie Brinkley Wants 'Revenge'
Originally posted 07/04/2008 09:00AM
Lawyers for Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook traded barbs after another acrimonious day of testimony Thursday.
Norman Sheresky, Cook's lead attorney, repeated his assertion that the supermodel pushed for the trial to punish her architect husband.
"I think it's pretty clear she's doing this out of revenge," he told reporters.
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Christie Brinkley: Husband Was Suicidal After Split
Originally posted 07/03/2008 04:45PM
During her two-hour testimony Thursday morning, Christie Brinkley aired more of Peter Cook’s dirty laundry.
Brinkley detailed a call she received from Cook shortly after she discovered news of his shocking affair in 2006, describing her estranged husband as being hysterical and suicidal. "He was sobbing and said he was driving erratically and that, 'I'm going to drive into a tree,'" Brinkley said on the stand. "I said, 'Pull over. You need help.' He said, 'No, I'm going to kill myself.' Then I spent the rest of the day trying to find a place he could go to get help."
But the revelations didn't stop there. On the heels of testimony Wednesday from her daughter Alexa (her dad is singer Billy Ray Joel) that Cook once punished her by shoving her head into a bucket of water, Brinkley said the strain between Cook and Alexa, 20, "was truly an area that pained me in our marriage."
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Brinkley v. Cook Divorce: They Said What?
Originally posted 07/03/2008 04:00PM
As their divorce trial continued Thursday afternoon, it seemed that both Christie Brinkley, 54, and Peter Cook, 49, had sharpened their claws.
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