Diana Bianchi, the woman in the middle of the Christie Brinkley, Peter Cook divorce trial, was 18 years old when Cook hired her to work at his architecture firm.
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Bianchi showed up at their divorce trial today in Long Island.
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Cook admitted in court that he hired Bianchi simply so he could sleep with her.
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He then paid Bianchi upward of $20,000 for “clerical duties” and showered her with gifts like a $2,000 watch, Victor’s Secret lingerie and envelopes full of cash that he would hide around the office for her to find.
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He said in court they had sex 12 times together — twice in the office, and five times each at his homes in Sag Habor and Water Mill.
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Cook wrote to Bianchi in an e-mail: “I don’t know, you put me under your spell. You never asked me, but I left you money anyway.”
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Brinkley’s lawyer said she was sick to her stomach when Bianchi’s stepfather told her of the affair between the teenager and her husband.
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Cook told Brinkley when she confronted him that Bianchi seduced him, saying they only kissed until one day she just took off her clothes in his office and declared, “Let’s have sex.”
