Christie Brinkley has been married four times, and after the last marriage ended in a headline-making divorce from Peter Cook (who reportedly had an affair with his then-18-year-old assistant), Christie has declared she will not get married again in her interview with Ladies Home Journal

‘I would never get married again,’ she says firmly. ‘With what I know I don’t see why anyone would get married.’ Which is not to say she is not a romantic. ‘I totally believe in true love. And I think couples should celebrate their love over and over again.’ But, she adds, they needn’t formalize it. ‘In fact, right at the beginning of a relationship, I would formalize an exit strategy.”

She goes on to say she feels badly that intimate and unflattering details of her life being public fodder, and that the press implied she wanted it that way:

“Maybe I can try again to clear this up, Divorce courts in New York are always open to the public. I didn’t want special treatment.”

She felt very strongly she had nothing to hide — and should not cower, in life or in the press.  As for any future relationships she says:

“I haven’t always followed my own advice, but I’ve always believed that you’ve got to be whole before starting with someone new. You’ve got to find that inner peace. I’d have to feel, ‘Okay, the time is right to be open to that again.’”

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Diana Bianchi, the other woman in the Christie Brinkley divorce scandal, is speaking out against the reports that there is an alleged sex tape of her and Brinkley’s ex husband Peter Cook.

In an exclusive statement from her attorney, Diana says she was “unaware that he was videotaping their sexual encounters.”

Peter and Christie’s divorce became final in July, amid accusations that he spent thousands of dollars a month on internet pornography and had an affair with a then 18-year-old Bianchi.

The young woman’s attorney, Rosemarie Arnold, tells ET exclusively: “Diana was in a relationship with Peter Cook. It does not surprise her that there are photos of her in his possession. However, she was unaware that he was videotaping their sexual encounters. In my opinion, Peter Cook is a wolf. He went on Barbara Walters in a tie and claimed he was a lamb. But you can put a tie on a wolf, he’s still a wolf. We are weighing our legal options concerning this matter.”

Meanwhile, Christie’s lawyer says “Nothing about Peter Cook’s behavior shocks us. We don’t know anything about this tape. We never saw it and we never heard about it. Christie’s concern is for the sake of her children and she hopes this video is kept private.”

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Christie Brinkley has filed a request for a temporary restraining order and a motion for post-judgment relief again her ex-husband Peter Cook, a Suffolk County, N.Y., official confirms to PEOPLE.

The motion was filed Wednesday – two days before Cook’s revealing interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters is set to air.

Cook, 49, who has admitted to having an affair with an 18-year-old assistant and an online pornography habit, told Walters during his interview for Friday night’s 20/20 broadcast, “I’m not the … pervert that I’ve been painted to be.”

Brinkley and Cook halted their messy divorce trial in July when both parties announced a settlement deal. The judge in the case, Mark Cohen, signed their final divorce decree Sept. 29.

The new motion is on the court calendar for Oct. 29, but the court official said it’s unclear at this point whether the parties will actually appear in court or if their lawyers will simply submit statements to the judge in writing.

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Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have finalized their divorce, Extra reports.

The two settled their bitter public divorce battle in July, with Brinkley receiving sole custody of their two children, Jack, 13, and Sailor, 10.

She also retained all 18 properties in the Hamptons. Brinkley agreed to pay Cook $2.1 million.

The couple split two years ago after Cook has an affair with his 18-year-old assistant, Diana Bianchi.

In a 20/20 interview airing Friday, Cook said Brinkley caused him to cheat.

“I was seeking a connection I could not find in my own marriage…” he says. “I think the emotional aspect of our lives had changed. I think we were both feeling more like we were living with a brother and sister than a life partner… I think I just suddenly realized when I was getting attention from someone else that this is something that is missing in my life.”

Asked what he wanted out of his marriage, Cook tells Walters, “a little acknowledgement, a little attention, a little thank you every now and then for my efforts, for the amount of time I took to care for her and my family, for the wealth I was building.

“Just the tremendous amount of work I was putting into my family… my world became her world,” he went on. “It had to be that way… there came a time when I pulled up the driveway to the home that I found, that I built, that I lived in, and I felt like I was a guest in someone else’s life.”

Cook said he decided to speak out now because he hopes “the world will see that I’m not the scumbag pervert that I’ve been painted to be.

“The misinformation that came out during the trial is the elephant in the room,” he added. “It’s the elephant in the room for my kids. And I’m hoping maybe if I can correct some of the wrongs.”

What if Brinkley watches the interview?

“What I hope comes of it is that she takes the time to heal herself. And she goes back and remembers that I made a mistake, but that I am that person that she wrote the poems about, that she raved about in magazine articles and anybody who she could get… twist their ear to listen,” Cook said. “I am that person today, that I was then.”

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Christie Brinkley’s ex-husband Peter Cook doesn’t regret marrying the former model – despite their bitter and public divorce.

The former couple last week agreed a settlement, after a week-long court trial under the full gaze of the world’s media.

A court-appointed psychiatrist has advised Brinkley to undergo therapy to help her deal with her anger towards Cook – and she has sworn off marrying ever again.

But Cook – who cheated on Brinkley with his 18-year-old assistant – insists he takes positives away from their marriage, telling the New York Post, “I’ll never regret marrying her. We had a great time for 10 years. I’ve got two beautiful children.”

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The twin private investigators who helped model Christie Brinkley reach a settlement in her divorce trial insist their evidence would have ruined her ex-husband Peter Cook.

After five court days of testimony in Long Island, New York court, the bitter former couple reached an agreement on Thursday morning.

And private investigators Ty and Stephen Dux are convinced the “smoking gun” facts they were about to present to the case prompted Cook and his legal team to give Brinkley full custody of the couple’s children, Sailor and Jack.

In a frank interview with Extra, the Dux twins reveal they spent a year trailing Cook, videotaping him with and without his children.

Ty Dux says, “The footage is not of sexual nature… (It’s) more information that would have been damaging to him with his relationship to his children and possibly his community. Some of his actions might have been a little reckless with his kids that could have caused them some harm. Some of it could be considered illegal.”

Dux adds the videotaped footage of Cook was going to be introduced as evidence in the trial.

He adds, “I believe he had had enough already.”

And now he insists the footage will not be made public: “It would have been bombshell evidence… (but) even if we were allowed to release the information… I don’t know if I’d want to because I believe he’s ruined already.”

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After days of acrimony in court and a night of intense negotiation going into the wee hours of the morning, Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook settled their contentious divorce case.

“It is my pleasure to report to the court that with much hard work … we reached an agreement,” Brinkley’s lawyer Robert Cohen said in Suffolk County Supreme Court in Central Islip.

After Judge Mark Cohen signed off on the deal and Cook left the courtroom, Brinkley hugged two friends and sobbed quietly.

“It’s to me a very bittersweet moment because it really is the death of a marriage,” Brinkley said later, outside the courtroom. “I’m very pleased with the results today. I was here fighting for custody.”

She held an elaborate dinosaur diorama she had helped her son make for a science class that had been used as evidence at the trial.

“It’s everything I asked for,” Cook said as he walked quickly away from the building.

The hard-fought deal’s main sticking point – custody of the couple’s two children, Jack, 10, and Sailor, 13 – was resolved with Brinkley getting sole custody and final decision-making power over the children.

Cook is allowed visitation and will be consulted regarding decisions about the children.

Brinkley retained ownership of all real estate holdings and her boat Sweet Freedom. She agreed to pay Cook a flat amount of $2.1 million, mainly to cover his legal costs. The rest of the terms remain confidential, the pairs’ attorneys said.

The marathon negotiating session to end their 10-year marriage was held at a Marriott hotel in Islandia and finally ended at 6 a.m. Both sides appeared relieved to have the ugly trial concluded.

The settlement comes after five days of all-out war in the courtroom, where a string of witnesses, including Brinkley, 54, and Cook, 49, painted the model’s husband as a narcissistic horndog who slept with a teenage employee and had a $3,000-a-month Internet porn habit.

When asked why they didn’t settle sooner, Brinkley – wearing a pink, brown and tan skirt, pink sweater over a white blouse and designer high-heel open-toed shoes – said she didn’t “have a choice.”

“I was trying to settle the day I learned about – you know – about the absolute truth, the facts. I wanted to settle but, unfortunately we could not reach an agreement until 6 a.m. this morning,” she said.

Cohen said that after days of bruising testimony, Cook realized that settling was a wiser option.

“Most of you heard what went on in that courtroom – I think it was pretty clear where this case was going and so it was resolved,” he said.

At the center of the trial – where custody of the couple’s two children was at stake along with her considerable assets – was the affair Cook had with Diana Bianchi, a teenager he hired as an assistant for his architecture firm and paid $300,000 for her silence.

Then, two days ago, a court-appointed psychiatrist deemed Cook a self-obsessed egomaniac, and said Brinkley should have primary custody of the children.

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