In her new memoir, Uptown Girl, supermodel Christie Brinkley reveals exactly how she uncovered her fourth husband’s affair. Brinkley doesn’t shy away from detailing her messy split with architect Peter Cook in her memoir after discovering he had been having an affair with a high schooler. The student’s dad approached Brinkley while she was giving a speech at a high school in the Hamptons in 2006, informing her that her “arrogant husband” was having an affair with his teenage daughter. “I was so stunned that I froze,” she wrote, adding: “When your whole world falls apart and you realize in a heartbeat you’ve suddenly become the cliche middle-aged woman whose husband is having an affair with a much (much) younger woman, what do you do?” She and her friends decided to look through the family computer Charlie’s Angels style, according to Brinkley, and found a “labyrinth” of X-rated photos and porn accounts. “It was so insane that it was almost funny and soon enough, the three of us were doubled over in laughter,” she recounted. What ensued was a very public six-year divorce battle, which included the matter of who would get custody of their children, Sailor and Jack. Brinkley ultimately won custody of them both in 2008.
