Normally we'd ignore stories about people like Christie Brinkley because, well, we're a topical modern gossip blog and not a 1986 advertisement for ColoRibbons eye shadow. However, we're making a special concession in this case because it involves messy divorce and porn addiction, and because Christie is still a happenin' little number. You'll recall that Christie is divorcing her husband, businessman Peter Cook, after learning that he was joining groins with his teenage employee in his office. Well, their divorce trial opened yesterday and many a bombshell was dropped. Apparently, Cook paid his barely legal mistress $300K to keep quiet about the affair, he frequented swingers' websites, posting naked pictures of his weenis, and he admitted to spending $3,000 per month on internet porn, seemingly unaware that it is available for free. Take it away, Yahoo! News:
Sensational testimony about Christie Brinkley's estranged husband opened their divorce trial Wednesday, giving the public a salacious peek into the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model's fourth marriage.
The husband, architect Peter Cook, testified that he and Brinkley used pornography "to get the mood going." Alexa Ray Joel, Brinkley's daughter with "Piano Man" Billy Joel, said Cook once shoved her head into a bucket of water.
Brinkley and Cook presented a portrait of contentment on the Hamptons social circuit. But behind the scenes, they relied on porn as a precursor to intimacy during the last half of their marriage, Cook said. He acknowledged spending about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites in 2005. He said he has not accessed the sites since his breakup and maintained he never looked at them in the presence of his children.
Alexa Ray Joel, 22, testified that Cook treated her well before he married her mother. But she said he was constantly on her case afterward, chastising her "if I chewed too loud" and criticizing her piano playing.
"He was just very critical of me in general," said Joel, a singer, songwriter and pianist. When her lengthy shower caused a leak in the kitchen below in 2003, Cook stormed into the bathroom and demanded she mop up immediately, Joel testified. When she got downstairs wearing only a towel, he pushed her head into a bucket and yelled, "You clean this up!" she said.
He's like a cross between Charlie Sheen and Joan Crawford.
Christie in her prime! See her foxy self show it off at MrSkin.com.
