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CHRISTIE CRUSHES CHEATER RE-PETER

A beating never looked so good.

In a total “slam dunk” victory, supermodel Christie Brinkley settled her nasty divorce with philandering ex-hubby Peter Cook yesterday for a mere pittance – handing him just $2.1 million of her estimated $60 million fortune, keeping all her luxurious properties and winning full custody of their kids.

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After an intense, all-night negotiation at a Long Island hotel, the pair agreed that she would get full custody of their two children, final parental decision-making power and ownership of the large number of properties they had amassed during their 10-year marriage.

In the end, all Cook ended up with was the cash – most of which will go to pay his legal expenses, sources said.

Brinkley agreed to pay him a flat amount of $2.1 million – a drop in the bucket when compared to her fortune, which a source close to her estimated to be around $60 million.

“It’s to me a very bittersweet moment because it really is the death of a marriage. It’s also a new start for all of us,” Brinkley said after the settlement was announced in Suffolk County Court in Central Islip. “I’m very pleased with the results today. I was here fighting for custody.”

Following five bruising days in court, the two sides holed up at a Marriott in Islandia until the wee hours of the morning hammering out the final details of the settlement. They reached an agreement at 6:15 a.m.

A little more than three hours later, the 54-year-old stunner and her 49-year-old architect husband appeared in court to before Judge Mark Cohen to announce a deal.

“It is my pleasure to report to the court that with much hard work . . . we reached an agreement,” said Brinkley’s lawyer, Robert Cohen.

The judge then signed off on the deal, and Cook – Brinkley’s fourth husband – slinked out of the courtroom,

“I’ve got everything I’ve been asking for for two years,” Cook said as he walked briskly from the building.

Brinkley remained behind, sobbing quietly in the courtroom as she was hugged by two friends.

She spoke briefly with reporters outside the courthouse and then returned home to Tower Hill, her 20-acre estate in Bridgehampton, to have lunch with a group of close friends.

“She is doing so well. She is just so relieved that she has full custody and this is all over,” said pal Lisa Greenberg.

“We just sat around and had lunch and let her breathe, and hopefully she’ll now sleep peacefully for the first time in two years now that it is all over.”

At the center of the trial was the affair Cook had a little over two years ago with Diana Bianchi, the then-teen assistant he hired at his architecture firm. He later paid her $300,000 to ward off a sexual-harassment lawsuit and buy her silence about the affair.

Bianchi, now 21, testified at the trial, admitting to the affair that she said was consensual.

“She is glad to be finished with this chapter of her life,” said her lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold. “She has grown up and is looking forward to embracing adulthood.”

After both Cook and Brinkley took turns on the stand, a court-appointed psychiatrist testified that Cook is a narcissist with a bottomless ego and said the model, who has appeared on more than 500 magazine covers, needs to examine her taste in men.

The contentious divorce’s main sticking point, however, had been custody of the couple’s children – 10-year-old Sailor, who is Cook’s biological child, and 13-year-old Jack, whom he legally adopted.

While the pair agreed that Brinkley would get full custody, Cook is allowed visitation and will be consulted about decisions concerning the children.

Brinkley retained ownership of all real-estate holdings – about 18 properties in and around the Hamptons. The couple also agreed to sell the family fishing boat Sweet Freedom – which Cook has used to sail around with his bevy of gal pals – and split the proceeds.

Cohen said Brinkley’s portion will be donated to a shelter for domestic-violence victims in East Hampton.

The rest of the terms remain confidential, the pair’s attorneys said.

Brinkley’s former lawyer, Robert Wallack, called the deal a “slam dunk” for her.

“I think she did fantastic. It is a complete victory for her, a total slam dunk and she’s got everything she was looking for,” he said. “I think the trial was going almost totally in Christie’s favor, and I think Peter decided it was time to get out and be done with it.”

Both sides appeared relieved to have the ugly trial behind them.

The settlement comes after five days of all-out war in the courtroom, where a nonstop cavalcade of lurid testimony – including from Brinkley and Cook themselves – painted the model’s husband as a narcissistic sex hound who slept with a teenage employee and had a $3,000-a-month Internet porn habit.

It was also revealed that Cook liked to masturbate in front of the computer and broadcast the act via a Web cam.

When asked why they didn’t settle sooner, Brinkley 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.

A source close to Cook said he was disappointed not to have been able to unload against his ex-wife in court, but chose to end the case for the sake of the children and because of his ballooning legal costs.

Cook was most hurt by the loss of the properties that Brinkley had bought relying heavily on his advice, the source said. When they married, she owned only one $3.5 million apartment in Manhattan.

Additional reporting by Luke Dennehy and Lukas I. Alpert

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