Miss Brinkley quickly replaced one husband after another.

Norman Sheresky, whose clients include the former wives of actors James Gandolfini, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall, probably has a point. He mockingly told the court: 'For goodness sake - she's on her fourth husband.' In court, her lawyer Stephen Cohen, who represented Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina, in her bitter divorce case, slammed Cook as 'a liar, drunkard and adulterer'.Д¬ook's attorney fired back, painting Miss Brinkley as angry and 'self-indulgent'. To prove Cook is a womaniser and unfit to have more than short visitation rights to the children, Miss Brinkley - who has remained single since the marriage break-up - also intends to call a married woman dumped by him after she had left her husband, his current girlfriend and an interior designer with whom he had a fling. The hearing is expected to last a month with Brinkley calling 44 witnesses and Cook 20.ДЄccused: Peter Cook allegedly had a number of sordid affairs Both want sole custody.Д¬ook claims an un-motherly Brinkley employs an army of staff to care for the children, while she says that his addiction to porn and sexual behaviour make him unfit as a father. The couple had a prenuptial agreement - their ВЈ30 million portfolio of properties has already been divided up.ДЄpart from the disputed ownership of three boats and several parcels of land worth ВЈ1.5 million, all that remains to be hammered out are the actual grounds for divorce and custody of the children. When 54-year-old Brinkley fought to have her divorce heard in public - a highly unusual move in family court - Cook's lawyer Norman Sheresky painted her as a woman scorned, who would stop at nothing to get revenge.Д«rinkley insisted that she wanted her youngest children, Jack and Sailor, to know the truth about the marriage break-up.Д«ut her detractors immediately questioned her motives and the effect it would have on Jack, now 13, and Sailor, ten. It was a meeting site,' a tearful Brinkley told the divorce hearing. He'd signed up to a local sex site, had posted naked pictures of himself on the internet and was advertising for swinging partners. It transpired Cook was spending ВЈ1,800 a month on porn sites using their then 11-year-old son Jack's name. The saucy email exchanges between her husband and 18-year-old Diana Bianchi were nothing compared with the webcam he'd set up to pleasure himself in front of strangers. What she ultimately discovered was sickening. She demanded his computer passwords saying he'd give them to her if he had nothing to hide. On Thursday this week, her voice quavering, she dabbed tears from her eyes and told how on the drive home from the school with Cook she became so distraught that she stumbled out of her car on the side of a busy road and fell to her knees, sobbing.Д«ack at their ВЈ15 million mansion, Cook continued furiously to deny he was cheating.Д¬ourt case: Christie (left) and daughter Alexa Joel both gave evidence at her divorce hearing this week 'He's having an affair with my teenage daughter.'Д«rinkley says she looked at Cook sitting in the front row, shaking his head in denial, and just knew it was true. 'That husband of yours won't knock it off,' he told her bluntly. She'd just finished giving a speech on global warming at the local high school when policeman Brian Platt tapped her on the shoulder. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.Д«rinkley told a Long Island divorce court this week that their ten-year union was 'near perfect' until the day in June 2006 when 'my world was completely shattered'.

They were the reigning king and queen of Long Island society - the mainstays at fund-raisers, film premieres and sporting events in the Hamptons, the summer playground of the wealthy immortalised in F.

Their own daughter, Sailor, was born 12 months later.ДЄs the years passed, it did appear that blonde Brinkley and the dapper Cook were made for each other. They married the following year with her ex Joel and their daughter Alexa Ray in attendance.Д¬ook adopted her young son Jack after Taubman was persuaded to sign away his visitation rights.

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