The most scandalous divorce trial between Christie Brinkley and her estranged architect husband Peter Cook eventually ended yesterday peacefully. The two parties apparently decided to settle their ugly custody battle out-of-the-court in an effort to avoid further embarrassment.
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The most scandalous divorce trial between Christie Brinkley and her estranged architect husband Peter Cook eventually ended yesterday peacefully. The two parties apparently decided to settle their ugly custody battle out-of-the-court in an effort to avoid further embarrassment.
After five days of sensational trial proceedings that detailed Cook’s porn activities and his extramarital affair with a teenage employee, the divorce case of the former supermodel and the architect reached an abrupt settlement deal at about 6:15 a.m. Thursday after Cook agreed to Brinkley’s demands, allowing her to retain monstrous share the couple's wealth, and custody of their two children.
Under the agreement, Brinkley, 54, has received sole custody of the couple's two children, Jack, 13, and Sailor, 10. She will also retain all 18 of their properties in the Hamptons, including "several" places on Long Island and one house in the Turks and Caicos, while Cook will get "parenting time" with the children and $2.1 million in spousal severance, in an arrangement mutually satisfactory to both parties.
Calling her divorce from Cook “a very bittersweet moment”, Brinkley said: "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.”
She went on saying: “I was here fighting for custody. I’m really glad today that we found some peace. I think a mother's greatest fear is somebody trying to take her children, trying to take custody of her children. That's what I was up against. And so I've won custody and decision-making, and that's really all I ever wanted."
On the other hand, about the settlement deal, Cook said: "I got everything I've been asking for two years."
The family boat, Sweet Freedom, will be sold and the profit will be divided into two. Both parties’ lawyers declined to give details of the rest of the settlement.
Brinkley and her fourth- now ex-husband Cook, early this month, arrived at court in Central Islip, N.Y. to start their divorce trial. In his opening statement in the celebrity divorce trial, Brinkley's lawyer, Robert Stephan Cohen had described Cook as a self-obsessed sex addict and charged him of spending thousands of dollars on pornographic sites.
Cohen at the time also accused Cook of having extramarital affair with his young assistant, Diana Bianchi, then 18. He also claimed that his client when checked his account on computer after learning about his hubby’s affair she came to know that Cook was spending $3,000 a month on pornographic websites. Cook was also accused of being involved in the most humiliating activities, including masturbation on a web camera and searching the Web for "young fit girls".
Brinkley had also accused Cook of manhandling their children. During the second phase of their scandalous divorce trial that focused on the child custody battle, Brinkley had told the court that Cook treated the kids roughly so many times. However, Cook denied these charges.
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