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I’ve ignored this story for a while, thinking it will go away on its own, but it just keeps getting better. Supermodel Christie Brinkley’s fourth husband, architect Peter Cook, cheated on her with the babysitter, I mean some barely legal girl who worked in their town, and she’s leaving him.
Cook, 47, seduced 19 year-old aspiring singer and shopgirl Diana Bianchi by initially promising to help her with her career. He hired her to work for him at his architecture firm and doubled the salary she made in retail. He wore her down gradually by wining and dining her and playing to her aspirations.
Brinkley, 52, was clueless about the year-long affair until the girl’s father, a Southhampton policeman, confronted Cook in front of her at a party and told him to “stop dating my daughter!” To the classic supermodel’s credit, she threw her cheating husband out of the house the next day.
Now Pop Singer Samantha Cole, who had a hit with the song “Happy with You,” says that Cook seduced her ten years ago when she was barely 18 in a strikingly similar story to the way he snagged Bianchi. He gave her a job at his architecture firm and eventually convinced her to date him. 
Cook was single at the time, but when a then 19 year-old Cole broke up with him in 1996 he rebounded hard - by marrying Christie Brinkley:
“My mother’s the one that pointed it out. She said, ‘This is you, this is you 10 years ago.’ It’s definitely weird, it’s really weird.”
Weirder still is that Cole’s mother, a cop, worked in the Southampton Village Police Department with Bianchi’s stepdad, Police Officer Brian Platt. And Cole’s cousin went to high school with Bianchi. “Someone said to me yesterday that he was trying to recreate me or something,” Cole said.
Cole revealed that, at one point, Cook proposed marriage to her in a last-ditch bid to win her back after she broke up with him in 1996. When she refused, Cook - who was by then dating Brinkley - got engaged to the “Uptown Girl” a month later. “I was pretty upset about it, pretty angry,” Cole said. “I was the last person he was with before Christie.”
Cole says that she was surprised Cook ended up with Brinkley, five years his senior, because he always seemed to prefer younger women. She says he was a gentleman, though, and treated her with respect.
The NY Daily News examines why men stray. It seems Cook wanted to recreate his earlier, exciting relationship. He also was undoubtedly looking for attention and validation:
“He wanted to be admired and worshiped. Being a teen, Bianchi had none of Brinkley’s responsibilities and distractions, such as children and a busy career. Her focus could be 100% on Cook.
“She was happy to talk about how wonderful he was and how he would help make her a singing star.”
Cook’s apparent philandering validates research that shows married men are twice as likely to stray after the age of 40.
I met an older, semi-rich, married guy on the train from NY to Connecticut once. He chose to sit next to me and it didn’t take long before he told me his story. He left his first wife for his mistress, who he once had hot frequent sex with. His wife was no longer putting out, though, and the marriage was stifling and boring.
He revealed that his wife was working to get her real estate license and that she also cared for their 7 year-old twin sons. I told him that if he wanted hot sex with his wife he should take some time to listen to her, and try to make things romantic again. He said he gave her all she ever wanted monetarily, along with a fabulous house, so why should he be bothered with talking to her? The asshole was trying to pick me up because his second marriage was failing predictably, just like his first. Once a cheater…
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Breakups, Christie Brinkley, Scandals
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