In case you don't know the name, Christie Brinkly is an ex-supermodel who still looks fantastic. And her husband cheated on her, as did Brad Pitt on Jennifer Aniston. It brings home to me the belief that affairs are not always about us (BS), but rather a certain feeling of lacking eminating from within the WS. Here is a news clip with the story:

Peter Cook is turning his marital problems with Christie Brinkley into a public affair.
An even more public affair, that is.


The 47-year-old architect has finally fessed up to reports that he carried on a yearlong relationship with his personally hired teenage office assistant and has issued an apology to his estranged wife.

"I love my wife," Cook said in a statement released through his lawyer to the New York Post--a very personal touch. "I have loved her since the day I met her. "For a lifetime I've tried to prove how much I love her. This is an aberration. I'm sorry. I'm contrite. I'm stupid. Foolish. No excuse."

Cook's attorney, divorce specialist Norman Sheresky, told the newspaper that despite his being hired, Cook is hoping for a reconciliation with his CoverGirl wife of more than 10 years.
"He hopes there's no divorce. If she wants one, and he certainly hopes this doesn't happen, but if--it will not be nasty. She can have whatever she wants." Which could be considerable.

The former fun couple, who have two children together--one biological child and a child Brinkley had from a prior relationship whom Cook adopted when he and Brinkley tied the knot in 1996--both earn in the millions and shared, at least until recently, a Hamptons estate designed by Cook.
As for his affair with the Diana Bianchi, now 19, Cook has copped to his philandering ways, though denies, per the girl's words, that she was "just a tool of his little game."

"He wants this to go away...To beg her forgiveness," Sheresky told the paper. "For her take him back. He says he's married to a terrific woman."
For now, Brinkley has refused to speak or respond publicly to the matter.
Her publicist, Elliot Mintz, said last week that Brinkley is "just a woman who at this moment is completely preoccupied with the protection of her children, trying to isolate them from all of this coverage, and trying to heal."

So by Frank Pittman standards, it appears that Brad Pitt was involved in a romantic love affair where he "fell in love" with his affair partner. According to Pittman, these type of affairs lead hypnotically towards a divorce before the smitten ones wake up and realize they are not in Kansas anymore.

It would appear that Christie's husband was just out for a little booty call, no strings attached. A philanderer maybe. Once busted, he took out an ad in the NY Post, begging her forgiveness. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.

Here is a another news story about it, but I really like the message, i.e. affair partners (OW) take responsibility for your actions. You are not as innocent as you claim to be.



ONCE AGAIN we have a full-grown woman — in this case, a 19-year-old from Long Island — claiming to be the innocent victim in a high-profile extramarital affair. When are women going to learn, I found myself thinking, as I watched Diana Bianchi toss her beautiful locks and confess to one of those pushy and obsequiously empathetic TV news reporters that she had stumbled into an affair with her employer, one Peter Cook, a.k.a. Mr. Christie Brinkley.

"I didn't expect him to take it to another level," she said, with a strangled giggle. "It" being a flirtation. "Another level" being sex. Her mother has called Cook a predator who "preyed" on her baby. The family has retained an attorney, who has said Cook "abused" Bianchi. He also has mentioned the possibility of a civil suit.

Bianchi put my teeth on edge. I am offended by her giggles — inappropriate in the face of the pain she has caused another woman — and offended by her victim act. "He" didn't take it to another level alone. "They" took it to another level.

Yes, of course, I am tired of and offended by the lecherous husband act as well.

Cook has no doubt deeply wounded not only his wife but his kids — who will now have to endure the peering, leering journalists, lawyers and other salivating birds of prey who swoop in on such a heartwreck. He deserves, and will no doubt get, all manner of public and private abuse as this painful tale spins through the tabloids and the courts.

But the fact that an allegedly mature married man in his 40s should know better than a nubile young thing is simply beside the point. Yes, he should have. He had more to lose and more people to hurt.

But don't tell me that in today's world — a virtual cornucopia of sex talk, sex images and O.C. babes — an 18-year-old (Bianchi's age when they began the affair, and the age at which young women in fatigues are dying in Iraq) can hide behind a claim of naivete or harassment.

Yes, harassment is a serious issue — a job-for-sex swap that is repellent and one that the courts take seriously. But it's hard to see that at play here. This is a beautiful young toy-store clerk who Cook inveigled into working in his architectural office — eventually at a salary of $50 an hour. She had to know he had an eye for her, especially after he lavished her with gifts.

Just once, it would be great to hear a young woman stand up and say, "I take total responsibility for my part in this," instead of ducking and dodging. That would be a great service. That's the path of true women's liberation, instead of this victim pose that is just a male-bashing perversion of what it means to be liberated.

The message to young women should be: Be careful, make your own decisions. Don't let anyone talk you into or trick you into having sex. You're a partner here. Act like one. Step up or back off — or tell him to back off. You've got a voice, use it.

It would be refreshing if Bianchi could do that — take responsibility — and then just disappear and refuse to answer any more questions. But, of course, in a culture in which celebrity is the highest value and there is little distinction between fame and infamy, you'd better enjoy your limelight moment, even if it's a tawdry tabloid one. You want a book deal? Step right up. No question, celebrity trumps everything, certainly sisterhood.

Predictably enough, another bouncy young woman has surfaced with tales of Cook's seductive attentions. This one was also a teenager when she and the architect had their alleged dalliance 10 years ago, but it was before his marriage to Brinkley. Nonetheless, she is strutting her stuff and talking about his charming ways. Didn't we women get that message either (or rather, didn't we older women send it to younger women): You don't kiss and tell, that to do so is creepy and self-abasing?

No doubt, there will be more salacious details to come in the Brinkley-Cook case. It would be truly liberating, to say the least, if Bianchi, instead of looking into any more cameras or letting any more publicity-seeking lawyers threaten harassment suits on her behalf, would just be quiet and stop trying to pretend that she was a teenage victim in an aging adulterer's bed.

I wish someone would point her here so she can know what it will take to recover, if she so chooses.

She and her WH will probably end up with some POS "do whatever feels good" counselor. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Seems like Christie didn't have to plan A. Been there done that and went straight to plan B with D waiting in the wings.

Big eye opener for the Xws that was....Is he an Xws yet? Time will tell.

Btw, his being 40 isn't any different than any other 40ish WS around. He just has more publicity on it.

As for the OW's family hiring an attorney....that's stupid, except for the attorney who gets pubilicity from this charade. OW's family is stupid.

L.

There is a guy @ my office who divorced his 50 year old wife and is now with a 25 year old blonde.

Why do older men do this?

Because there are females who will participate.

Because......he is thinking with the wrong end? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

because they can

(Note: It's no longer just men who do this, in all fairness.)

Generally speaking, because society says it's "okay."

Moral relativism in action when embraced as the "moral standard" for society.

The old way of putting it was, "If it feels good, do it!"

All the justification anyone needs to put self ahead of everyone else.

You are exactly right, including that it's just not men doing it. Some people are morally weak, have a sense of entitlement and are shocked at the consequences of their own actions.

IMHO,
No way

Because it's polar opposite from the M. I would not say it was only the age difference. Or I should say the difference in the looks.

Older wiser mature woman -vs- Younger not so mature care free woman.

After the novelty wears off, BW will win in the end. With or without WH.