It seems that in the world of celebrity divorces, while some go for a very private arrangement like Reese and Ryan, some spurned spouses want no less than revenge. While Shania Twain might have been giving her former friend, now known as the other woman, a public airing in People magazine, now it seems that Christie Brinkley, 54, wants her divorce proceedings out in the open.
Brinkley filed for divorce from her fourth husband, Peter Cook, in 2006 as news of his alleged infidelity with his then 18-year-old assistant emerged.
Among the things that may be revealed if the case, which begins July 2 is made public, are allegations that Cook trolls Internet porn sites. He also regularly logged on to swingers sites in search of women, the source claimed.
Despite Brinkley’s efforts, a law guardian for the couple’s two minor children however, will ask for the case to be kept private.
One reason Brinkley reportedly wants the case to be made public is because she is still upset at her ex.
“She’s still spitting mad at Cook,” the source said.
If my husband cheated on me, I’d probably want to drag his dirty laundry out so he could be labeled a scoundrel by women the world over. But, would I want my children to know that daddy is a love rat?
It seems that the attorney representing Christie’s children wants the divorce to be private, to protect them from the knowledge that their father likes women less than half his age. Christie and Peter have two children, Sailor, 9, and Jack 12, and Christie has another daughter with Billy Joel, Alexa, 22.
Considering that the allegations are that Peter Cook likes to view online porn, troll for swingers and had an affair with his 18-year-old secretary, I think the kids have already been exposed to the worst of it. My son is 5 and can already google, although he can’t spell much besides his own name, I’m guessing that two pre-teens can google their father’s name with ease. Maybe having the court records open is not a good idea.
Besides, Peter is hardly alone in the world looking online for sex and porn. Isn’t that what the internet was invented for?
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook are shown in the header on 5/7/03 and below on 8/25/05, thanks to WENN.
Yeah…NEWSFLASH – MIDDLE-AGED MAN SURFS NET FOR PORN!
Does Christie Brinkley assume that because she is/was a supermodel her husband falls into some special category of male? The smugness of some women who think that THEIR man would never want to stray, followed by their outrage when they do, is puzzling to me. Most rich, successful men in a long term marriage cheat.Get over it.
Does this mean this one won’t be at all of the events out East this year? Gonna miss her blue eyes under the tents.A Heart of gold this one has.
I wanted to cover this story, but Helen got to it before I did. It’s so stupid the amount of women who use the “Internet Porn” card when they divorce. As Helen sort-of mentioned, who hasn’t looked at porn online? It’s different when the man isn’t coming to bed night after night or is contacting other women online. This is a non issue if it doesn’t interfere with the marriage.
Christie needs to stop watching the film, “To Catch a Thief” w/Cary Grant & Grace Kelly. She asked In Style mag about 8 yrs. ago how to do the character’s hair. It seems she’s living a fantasy life based on the main character of that film. A character, Christie. Frances Stevens does not exist, never did. You have to have the balls to cut your hair & some good rollers to get the 50’s hairstyle!
Big deal – internet porn. It’s everywhere anyway. But yeah he was cheating. Still, I think Christie should just let it go…can’t be easy for the kids as that is still their dad. After four marriages maybe it would be best to forget the ring on the finger, instead have a nice companion who keeps his own place.
Bad PR may end up creating the opposite effect. A lot of women are really attracted to the scoundrels and womanizers.
she must really be desperate for attention. She really needs to give it a rest. She is not immune to what every other woman goes through and nobody really needs to hear this. She has children. Deal with it quietly. DIVORCE is not a punishment. It is an ending. Grow up Christie.
I agree. I know what it means to be angry – I had an ex who cheated on me as well – but it’s terribly selfish to bring all her dirty laundry out in public when they have children together.
Does she really want another Alec Baldwin/Kim Basinger or Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards situation?
Maybe she’s the “injured party” here, but so what? Does she want sympathy? Attention? ‘Justice’?
Would she rather be ‘right’ or be happy?
Perhaps she should have been looking at it with him.. might have saved her marriage. I am not ok-ing men who use porn so much that it affects their REAL relationships, but a little porn now and then.. eh, who cares. Now, swingers sites.. that’s bullshit.
“Most rich, successful men in a long term marriage cheat. Get over it.”
Are you nuts? I don’t approve of her wanting to make it public, since she should be considering the kids, I refuse to believe that “most rich, sucessful men…cheat.” Only the sleazy ones do. Not everyone fits into a stereotype; I think most people actually want to have a happy relationship that works.
on a side note, 12 year old jack isn’t cook’s son, he’s from her third marriage, to taubman.
Agreed, Lauri. Not only is it unfair to say “most” men cheat, to ask someone to “get over it” and imply that such behavior should be expected is sad. When two people marry they swear to be faithful and when that promise is broken it is a betrayal, a shock and painful. Yes, even if it is a person’s 4th marriage.
As for I-porn, generalisations aren’t appropriate, but with this selfish boy it reflects a pattern of an unhealthy relationship with physical intimacy: (1) he cheated with a very young woman(power) (2) the mistress was in his employ (power) (3) he seeks intimacy with random women online (fantasy) and (4) he uses pornography (power/fantasy). The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts, making the fact he uses porn relevant.
She’s been married 4 times, is she going for #5?
Wow, someone has dirty laundry to air or wants publicity. Internet porn sited as a divorce issue must be the new ‘irreconcilable differences’ it’s becoming a big trend anymore.
Yeah – Jack is not Peter Cook’s son. She has 3 children from 3 different Baby Daddy. SIGH.
He is a dirty dog no matter how you slice it. I don’t care if she has been married 100 times, that doesn’t take away from his sleazball affair with an 18yr old. He is just a sleazy con man.
Thanks, Journey and Cici, I was going to note the same thing. C’mon Helen, get the facts straight please.
I can understand that rage. I sometimes want to rip the skin off of my ex-husband’s face with my teeth. But that is when he screws with the kids.
It would certainly be the more mature choice to have some dignity and take the high road and keep it private.
If she wants to be vindictive, it will come back to bite her on the ass.
Well if women keep mentioning it, its because it bothers them when men do that. (go to sites)
Its not like women browse pics of naked men all the time and then demand that the husband understand it.
Theres something wrong with it at the core in terms of relationship, trust, and the expectation that you are your spouses only source of such gratification; porn is the definite message that you are not. It hurts!
Besides, Peter is hardly alone in the world looking online for sex and porn. Isn’t that what the internet was invented for?
Do you think that Al Gore looks at porn, he did invent the internet after all.
Men always try to play the “everybody does it” card. First they claim everybody looks at porn, then they claim everybody cheats. It’s a con, aimed at getting women to accept these behaviors. If any of these men caught their wives looking at a porn guy with a bigger dick than they have, or cheating on them, they’d be outraged.
The double standard still persists, and will persist until women consistently refuse to get involved with men who do these things.
Porn is degrading, not a natural part of a healthy relationship. Cheating invalidates the entire concept of marriage – what part of the “forsaking all others” did people NOT understand?
It’s actually Ryan and REESE, not Reece.
The last two she picked were losers. Maybe it’s time to give marriage a rest.
After reading these posts, it seems as though the walking Barbie doll known as Christie lacks both common sense and intelligent girlfriends! As a whole, the comments here would be beneficial for any mother in the midst of a divorce: everyone has regrets, wounded pride, justifiable disgust at a spouse who cheats…but a mother’s first duty is protecting her children from further misery. Only a selfish woman woud do otherwise. Please excuse me for sounding arrogant, and thank you for the insights.
Men like to look at naked women, I get that. Don’t blame ’em. But porn is some else and more often than not, destroys most of the women IN those films that the people are watching and which you think aren’t causing harm. Porn does cause harm, you just don’t think about it. I know there are women who say they’ve come out of it fine, but I think for most of the girls and women in porn, they’re irrevocably harmed. Debbie Downer stuff, but I’m not letting this “porn isn’t harmful” crap go by w/o comment. If a partner is watching porn, I would have to question what’s going on. AND, there’s a difference between porn and erotica. Try reading this book and see how you feel: Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography,
couldn’t agree more M
Porn is degrading to the women involved- although they may not realise it at the time- and it is certainly degrading for someone who is waiting for a partner who doesn’t come to bed because they are too busy jerking off over a computer screen. Besides- looking at pictures of naked women is not the same as trawling swinger sites.
This man sounds like a complete jerk as do all those others who say ‘well everybody does it, it is ‘normal’- I have had this conversation with male friends too, and believe me- many do NOT think it is ‘normal’, I hope she chooses better next time.
However it would be a shame for the kids having all this in the public eye- bad enough they have a moron of a father without the whole world knowing about it.
you people are nuts!!!
for starters,, it seems to be all you guys are focusing on,, “INTERNET PORN”
but I am sure that is not the reason the marriage is over,,
that reason would be the 18 year old girl he was dating and the swingers clubs he went too,,
that man is gross and a sicko,,
it’s not all about porn,, geezz you knuckleheads are only referring to the porn,, what kind morons are you??
he dated a girl 18 and he is a swinger,, he cheated on his wife,, he is a jerk,, if it was only internet porn they would still be together!!
you guys are all focusing on the internet porn because you are taking such offense to this because you are a bunch of dirty pervs,,
I worked at a divorce law firm in Virginia for some time. While divorce laws differ from state to state, porn addiction is used as evidence of neglect. It can net you huge spousal/child support awards. Obviously the casual porn surfer doesn’t apply here, but if someone spends all of his/her time watching porn and not attending to the marriage bed, it’s a type of abuse.
By the way, unless you extensively study computers for a living…it’s pretty easy to see just how much/what type of porn someone is into, even when that person thinks they have hidden it well.
Ew to the swinger site bit. That will definitely get him in trouble too. Christie needs to find non-sleazeball guys. I do think the case should be kept private. I think all divorces should stay quiet. It isn’t anyone else’s business, and I have seen what it does to the children when the parents start going in for the vindictive kill. It isn’t fair to them at all.
Why do women justify men with addictions to porn? It is in our nature to be sexual, sure. We are capable of higher thought however. If a man (or woman) spends that much time taking care of his or herself, then they shouldn’t be married to begin with!
The problem with saying that looking at porn is the same as cheating is… listen for it, ladies… every guy looks at porn.
Seriously.
You can work yourselves up into a feminist tizzy about how degrading it is, you can go on Oprah to complain about it, whatever. The fact remains, every guy looks at porn.
Now if you want to tell him over and over again “looking at porn is the same as cheating on me”, maybe you can work out the implications of what effect that might have on his behavior. I’d say, being a guy, that it’s a hell of a lot more likely to make him cheat on you than it is to make him stop looking at porn.
Maybe someday women can try to accept men for what they are instead of forcing them into some role they have invented for them — which oddly enough is what they are always accusing US of doing to them.
Oh and I think you’ll find in most marriages it’s the men that complain there isn’t enough sex going on, so the argument that men are neglecting women to look at porn is sort of ridiculous.
I’ll agree that if that IS happening, it’s wrong, but it is not the norm.
it seems to me that if you expect your spouse to be EVERYTHING to you, you will end up very unhappy. People need to care for themselves first and accept great companionship from their spouse or friends but nobody can be everything to someone else just like nobody is perfect and nobody can read anybody else’s mind or fix everyone problem. If you expect your partner to be superhuman and be your ALL you’re asking for a codependent unhealthy relationship… and a sad social life.
I agree that cheating is wrong but looking at other people? even naked ones online? Please. Talk about self-sabotage if people think that’s cheating. If that is cheating than yes, let’s generalize, if looking is cheating. EVERYONE DOES CHEAT.
Can you provide more information or how to go about doing this?
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