Christie Brinkley was a model witness (pun intended) laughing, crying and flashing her baby blues as she told how her “picket fence” marriage collapsed in a “nightmare” of infidelity and Internet porn.After hours of wrenching testimony in which she described the moment she learned of her husbands affair with a teenager, which she said completely shattered her world, Christie Brinkley showed she’s still a class act, telling the press waiting outside the courtroom that she wanted to send a message to the young woman her husband seduced.
Diana Bianchi, now 21, was just 17 when Brinkleys estranged husband Peter Cook, met her. Cook hired her to work in his architecture firm and once she was legal he pounced. Brinkley said she wanted to let Bianchi know she forgives her.
Id just like to say after two days of testimony that I cant help but think about Diana Bianchi, and I want her and her family to know that I feel really badly for them, said Brinkley. I feel bad for her and I forgive her completely.
She was manipulated.
Brinkley’s, retelling of how she learned Cook, 49, was a cad, captivated the packed courtroom. It happened June 25, 2006, as she was basking in applause after delivering a high-school commencement speech in Southampton, L.I. Suddenly, a man she didn’t know, Bianchi’s stepfather, Brian Platt, a local cop approached and whispered in her ear.
“That husband of yours just won’t knock it off,” he said “He’s having an affair with my teenage daughter. That bastard won’t knock it off…so I had to come to you.”
Brinkley didn’t recognize Platt and looked over at her husband in confusion. One glance and she knew the man was telling the truth.
“Peter’s face was so tense. His lips were so tight. His lips were saying, ‘No, no,’” she recalled, locking eyes with Cook. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, he did that!’”
Back to the teenage mistress for a moment. Wednesday Diana Bianchi gave a tentative account on the stand of her affair with Cook. Cook gave Bianchi gifts of lingerie and cash, later paying her $300,000 not to reveal their affair to his wife. I am not sure I would be so forgiving as Christie Brinkley was knowing Bianchi took $300,000 in hush money!!
According to the latest edition of the National Enquirer, Bianchi, an aspiring singer, has been through a lot in the two years since ending her affair with a man nearly 30 years older. A friend claims Bianchi contemplated suicide and that she had issues with sexual addiction. She is also said to have dated music mogul Diddy, now 38, at a time when he was supposed to have been with his longterm girlfriend and mother of his twins, Kim Porter.
Source
The New York Post
