Christie Brinkley and Ex Settled Latest Family Court Drama

Christie Brinkley and her latest ex-husband Peter Cook can’t seem to figure out how to get along post-divorce. They were back in court in New York this week over custody and visitation issues. They ultimately settled their differences.

The former couple’s latest issues started last year over a school trip their son Jack was supposed to take to Egypt. (Hello?! A school trip to EGYPT?! Wow.) Cook was to accompany the school group but Jack was unable to travel because he did not have his passport. Cook accused Brinkley of failing to deliver the passport in order to interfere with his parenting time with Jack.

Brinkley claimed that she arranged for employees to drop it off when she had to unexpectedly be with a friend who had lost her mother.

Under their agreement, Brinkley is obliged to deliver passports for the children when necessary. Cook is also granted additional time with Jack to makeup for the time lost due to the canceled trip.

Both parties claimed victory outside the courtroom. “Ms. Brinkley is completely vindicated,” Peter Caronia, Brinkley’s lawyer, said in a statement. “The parties’ settlement approved by the judge today does not grant any of the requests in Peter Cook’s motion which dragged Ms. Brinkley back to court.”

“Mr. Cook was successful and got what he wanted, which was more parenting time with his children,” Cook’s lawyer Steven Kuhn told the media. “Ms. Brinkley isn’t to interfere with his time with his children.”

Cook had requested that Brinkley undergo anger-management therapy, that a parenting coordinator be assigned for the couple’s two children, and that a third party hold the kids’ passports. None of those requests was granted in the settlement.

Brinkley brought counterclaims against Cook, including an allegation that he had violated their confidentiality agreement, that also appear to be unaddressed in the settlement.

“Since Mr. Cook lost the custody battle in the divorce trial, he has staged a relentless smear campaign against Ms. Brinkley,” Caronia says. “Mr. Cook has tried repeatedly to tarnish Ms. Brinkley’s reputation by making defamatory statements during national television broadcasts, in print media and blogs. Ms. Brinkley chose not to exercise her right to hold Mr. Cook in clear violation of their original confidentiality agreement until Ms. Brinkley was served this unfounded and unwarranted court action at her children’s school holiday concert…”

Brinkley and Cook were divorced in July 2008 after a bitter and very public divorce trial.

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