You might want to have a puke bucket handy when watching this.

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mk...ss&from=im_default&wa=wsignin1.0

Note that all three women seem to have more of a problem with Ms. Brinkley making public her husband's affairs with teenagers, than they do with the WH!

Watch all the way to the end and you will even see one of the experts "poohing" the idea that adultery affects whether you're a good parent or not.

I just don't get it! They seem to have a problem with an open courtroom, although that is standard in divorce cases. Apparently the WH, Mr. Cook, thinks it will be embarrasing to have his dirty laudry aired in public. Maybe he should have considered that when he was messing around!

Oh, and he is soooo concerned for the children of course. And sadly, the ladies on the panel also seem to be blaming Ms. Brinkley for hurting the children. Hello???!!!

Reality Check:

The Christie Brinkley Marital Chronology:

Most recent first:

Husband: Peter Cook
fourth husband; married in 1996; on July 11, 2006, Brinkley's publicist confirmed that the couple separated following the disclosure of Cook's alleged affair a teenaged assistant in his architectural firm; filed for divorce September 2006

Husband: Richard Taubman
third husband; married in 1994; divorced in 1995

Husband: Billy Joel
second husband; married in 1985; divorced 1994

Husband: Jean-François Allaux
married in 1973; divorced 1981

Christie was the WS more than once: She and her then husband-to-be Richard Taubman survived a helicopter crash in March 1994 near Telluride, Colorado. Nine months later they married near the spot of the crash.

Calls her OM her husband to be...when she was still married to Billy Joel. Notice her marriage to Peter Cook less than a year after her divorce from her affair partner.

Doesn't excuse Peter Cook in any way...good info to have.

Christie may have been a repentant FWW by her fourth husband...truly got it all...not about deserving...just that consequences keep on coming...even after you redeem/repent...can't stop them. Her choices affected her children, same as Peter's did.

She has a daughter by Joel and one by Cook...all have been through this trauma...together.

Hard for the public to hear, experience vicariously...and maybe, everyone wishes none of those choices had been made...especially the vileness of Cook's age of APs...that's devastating in and of itself.

LA

Wow. I thought there was only one after Billy Joel. LOL! Shoulda known better!

Ah the lives of the rich and famous...really happy, aren't they? (:rolleyes:)

Yuck! I had forgotten she was a WW at one time. That's not cool at all.

I guess my big beef with this video clip, is how everyone seemed upset with her rather than her WH, for the fact
that her kids were going to be exposed to the horrible truth. Seemed like a very wayward mentality; the same kind of thinking that blames exposure for ripping the family apart, rather than adultery.

KIR,

Yeah, I got that...and it seems to bring up something in me from old school...

Do you think we look to mothers to be MORE responsible for their children than fathers? Somewhere deep down...we hold them to a higher standard...I don't know, because they gave birth, because they are the MOMs for pete's sake?

I dunno...I just figured out I have this in me, too...and I know God designed it to take a father and a mother to make and rear a child...

Just seems I put the protection of kids part fully into the mother's hands.

Her DD Alexa has already seen her mother cheat on her father, marry her AP, then divorce him fast, and marry another man, the father of her half-sister. I wouldn't doubt both DDs knew of Cook's A's...or had a big clue. I would worry terribly if I were Christie, given the ages of WS's APs.

So informing them IS protective. Still...we know we risk our kids when we divorce, remarry, and expose them to a parental figure who has no investment, and then do it again...teaching them partners are replaceable...I'm glad the girls know so they don't think they are the reason for any of it.

LA

Not me...based on my time here, I think it is just that opposite. The only reason MOM has more meaning to some than DAD is because they(some women) just don't get it.

Oh, and let us not forget that it is MOMS that abort on average 1 child for every woman in the world. I wouldn't suggest that is responsible in any way.

Divorce proceedings are public knowledge and is out there for anyone to read. People can pull all the particulars up on the internet (if the courthouse does that, some don't) or they can read the copy of any transcript by going to the courthouse where it was filed. They aren't closed like juvenile records are.

Now, what Mr. Cook wants is for an exception to made for this case. He doesn't want it part of public record (like it is for everyone else). He wants it closed so that people don't know that he was boinking many teenaged girls right before his marriage, and continuing into his marriage.

It will look very ugly for him.

Their concerns about the children finding out are like any other families dealing with this. Because she is high-profile (media wise) the problem exists that journalists will get copies of the stuff and report it. THAT is how the kids are gonna read all the dirty details...in the media.

At least, that is the impression that I get.

committed

I think it was much better when the Hollywood elite kept to themselves more and kept their dirty laundry in the hamper. But the studios used to have clauses for that. Behavior clauses? I don't know what they were called.

I say Hollywood...let's say rich & famous...that will cover it.

Maybe next we'll hear about her and Chuck Norris since they do those annoying commercials together. Or Wesley Snipes, I accidentally watched TV the other day and I saw that he's on the commercial now, too.

I can't live with the fact that I had participated in a battle of words. so I have deleted my inital thoughts.

AllurinGreenEyes,

An astute observation:

"Who the heck are you to JUDGE whether abortion is a responsible act or not? Last I knew it was a woman's CHOICE....not a man's decision!!"

You are 100% correct. The Supreme Court make it the sole choice of the mom to kill her child that is in her womb.

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Lord have Mercy...

I tell you what, how a Christie Brinkely thread can go to an abortion issue escapes me.

Not everything has to do with abortion.

Allurin... you are talking to a wall.

committed

"kill" is the key word.

I know

LOL!! I was just telling my Mom this when I saw your post!! LOL!

Charlotte

Mr. Cook's attorney is saying that his online teen porn,(he was spending thousands a month on it) and multiple affairs with teens, have nothing whatsoever to do with how good of a father he is.

I realize that Christie hasn't been a model mother either (no pun intended) but wow, this guy is a sleaze. He tried to pay the highschool senior $300,000 to lie about their affair.

It's just interesting to see how many people believe this is PRIVATE.

I guess my big thing with the deal, is I am reminded that people who choose to participate in adultery should NOT be surprised with that info is used against them.
If anyone's interested, here is a link to another video concerning the trial yesterday.

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt...c179adfb3&fg=rss&from=im_default

BTW, I am not a fan of celebrity gossip at all; I rarely even watch tv or movies. I'm interested in this through my Marriage Builder lenses!

Mr. Cook's attorney is saying that his online teen porn,(he was spending thousands a month on it) and multiple affairs with teens, have nothing whatsoever to do with how good of a father he is.

I realize that Christie hasn't been a model mother either (no pun intended) but wow, this guy is a sleaze. He tried to pay the highschool senior $300,000 to lie about their affair.
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quote from the husbands lawyer...
"For goodness sake: She's on her fourth husband," Sheresky told the court. "Your honor, we're here because of the self-indulgent wrath of a woman scorned."


Maybe they are THERE (in court) because Christy finally woke up and realized she was married cheater who preys on high school girls.

Is this lawyer presenting that his client's extra- marital affair w/a girl still in HS (who also happened to be an employee) was....acceptable? what?

I don't even understand the point he is trying to make w/ her being her 4th husband.....to me, it just points out that she's a lousy judge of character and has made the same mistakes 4 times......I think it makes her look more of a victim than self-indulgent.
For God's sakes her husband was having an affair w/ a HS student.... I don't see how exposing his affair is the act of a woman scorned....maybe..IF Christy were also a high school student and they WEREN'T married????

Wasn't this story represented in a Law & Order episode?

Charlotte

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how did it end?

Well, I hate to spoil it for any L&O fans that may have missed it. If it's the one I'm thinking of, Brooke Shields is in it. It was an episode of Criminal Intent, IIRC.

Charlotte