 Christie Brinkley: Tells about husband's affair with teenager
The former supermodel Christie Brinkley attended her divorce trial on Thursday. She told the court how her marriage broke when she found out her husband Peter Cook having an affair with a teenage employee and spending almost £2,000 a month on online pornography.
Brinkley and Cook were mainly arguing over custody of their children of ages 10 and 13.
Christie Brinkley said that she came to know about her husband Cook's affair with the 18 year old girl Diana Bianchi when the girl's stepfather, who is a police officer, tapped her on the shoulder and said, "That husband of yours won't knock it off. He's having an affair with my teenage daughter".
She told the court, "My world was completely shattered. My life as I knew it had vanished".
Christie Brinkley said that after learning of Cook's cheating she told him to give his computer passwords to her and found e-mails from Bianchi and porn sites he had visited.
"It was not a voyeur site. It was a meeting site. It was more than I could bear", She said these.
Peter Cook said that he and Christie Brinkley used pornography "to get the mood going" during the last half of their 10-year marriage.
Brinkley said that before she learned of the affair, the marriage's biggest problem was Cook's relationship with Alexa Ray Joel, her daughter.
Alexa Joel, 22, testified that Cook treated her well before he married her mother but criticized her constantly afterward.
Christie Brinkley, 54, and Cook, 49, wed in 1996. She filed for divorce a decade later after his affair with Bianchi became a tabloid scandal. |