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Christie Brinkley takes shot at ex-husband Peter Cook’s new wife

ICY HOT: A stunning Christie Brinkley traded barbs with philandering ex-hubby Peter Cook’s new wife, Suzanne Shaw (above), yesterday in court.

ICY HOT: A stunning Christie Brinkley traded barbs with philandering ex-hubby Peter Cook’s new wife, Suzanne Shaw (above), yesterday in court.

The claws came out in court.

Peter Cook’s former and current wives verbally tangled during a rage-soaked Long Island court appearance yesterday as the Hamptons architect and ex-spouse Christie Brinkley renewed their six-year-old hostilities once again.

“When you find out he’s been cheating on you, I’ll be here for you,” Brinkley seethed at Cook’s new wife, Suzanne Shaw. The supermodel bent down and touched the brunette stunner’s hand with mock tenderness as she delivered the withering slam.

“Come up with a new line,” Shaw retorted as a self-satisfied Brinkley sashayed away with her heels clicking down the courtroom hallway.

Shaw, who married Cook this past Valentine’s Day, got up to confront Brinkley, but was dissuaded by court officers.

Brinkley also informed Shaw that she “pitied” her during another brief hallway dust-up. Shaw has been largely silent during the ex-couple’s endless legal fracas, but noticeably ratcheted up her involvement yesterday.

Little has been settled after the couple’s 2008 divorce settlement over Cook’s philandering with a teenage store clerk. Both sides are back in a Riverhead court over rude e-mails and small sums of money they each claim the other owes them.

Cook said that his main purpose in partaking in the fresh skirmish is to adjust the way Brinkley deals with their co-parenting.

Cook claims Brinkley has not directly communicated with him in two years, and that matters regarding their two kids, Sailor and Jack, are negotiated with her attorneys.

A source close to Brinkley said Cook is trying to “extort” her out of money she does not owe him.

Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Mark Cohen called for the embittered exes to appear yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to avoid a new trial.

“It’s in the best interests of not just the parties themselves, but [also] the children that this matter be resolved,” he said sternly before sending the attorneys off to try to hammer out an 11th-hour deal.

Flanked by several female friends and meticulously outfitted in an elegant black dress and high heels, Brinkley waited out the negotiations in a courtroom hallway as Shaw and Cook sat roughly 20 feet away.

Brinkley and Cook could only glare at each other with mutual revulsion whenever they crossed paths.

Shaw’s public entry into the fray and staunch support of her husband added a fresh dimension of hate to the proceedings.

“What she’s done to these children over the past six years — there really aren’t words,” an emotional Shaw said of her nemesis yesterday.

“To embarrass and humiliate the father of your children only humiliates and hurts your children.”

“She’s stuck,” Shaw zinged. “She can’t move on.”

Brinkley’s attorney, Tom Campagna, said Cook’s failure to pay child support is at the heart of the issue, but would not take any questions. Brinkley quickly departed the courthouse without comment and left in a black Mercedes.

Despite hours of negotiation, the two parties failed to come to a resolution yesterday, and are therefore set for yet another trial that will begin on Tuesday to settle their differences.