Teen Set to Sue Brinkley's Husband
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Monday, July 17, 2006
HOLLYWOOD - LATEST: A New York teenager caught in the middle of Christie Brinkley's marriage breakdown is now considering legal action against the supermodel's estranged husband, according to the teen's lawyers.
An attorney for 19-year-old Diana Bianchi claims Peter Cook caused "substantial and irreparable harm" when he showered the aspiring singer with luxurious gifts--including a Nissan Maxima car--and then seduced her behind Brinkley's back.
Lawyer Joseph Tacopina tells the New York Daily News, "It amounts to preying on an innocent, young and naive girl who would otherwise have no attraction to a 50-year-old man.
"He offered her money, a job, career advancement. And when he got her comfortable, he made his real intentions known."
Cook met Bianchi when she was 18-years-old and working at a toy store in Southampton, Long Island, and then hired her as his personal assistant at his architecture firm.
Brinkley has packed up the couple's two children, Sailor, 8, and Jack, 11, and left the couple's home, after reporters started questioning her husband's wandering eye.
According to her spokesman Elliott Mintz, "She thought it would be best to be with her children in a different environment, to be a little more protective of what they will see, hear and come across in the news. It's temporary. They will be coming back. For me to say that she's not hurt or shocked, that would just be foolish."
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