The final bell rang, but the punches kept flying.
Despite an 11th-hour settlement in their latest courtroom battle, Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook yesterday ripped each other after a chaotic hearing in Riverhead, LI.
Brinkley, sporting black Ray-Ban sunglasses, bashed her former spouse as an “extreme narcissist” — while Cook called the supermodel a “liar” who has left a trail of dazed exes in her wake.
“She’s an angry, bitter, vindictive woman,” Cook fumed. “You think I’m the first? I’m [husband] No. 4.”
Retorted Brinkley: “I think there’s a lot of people out there that would benefit from Googling the site Divorcing a Narcissist, and it will give you a lot of insight about what I’ve been going through for the past 3½ years.
“The psychiatrist diagnosed him as an extreme narcissist, and that’s all I have to say.”
The onetime Hamptons power couple-turned-nuptial nightmare narrowly avoided yet another ugly trial after their lawyers hammered out an early-morning deal.
The two sides had accused each other of violating terms of their 2008 divorce settlement. Their split came after Cook admitted to having a steamy affair with a then-18-year-old toy-store clerk.
Cook complained that Brinkley failed to deliver son Jack’s passport in time for him to go on a school trip to Egypt with his dad, while Brinkley claimed that Cook defamed her during media appearances after their divorce.
Both sides reached a last-minute accord hours before yesterday’s hearing — but then it nearly collapsed when Brinkley’s flack released a 2 a.m. statement from her lawyer that skewered Cook and claimed total victory for her former supermodel client.
“Ms. Brinkley is completely vindicated,” the statement read. “The parties’ settlement approved by the judge today does not grant any of the requests in Peter Cook’s motion which dragged Ms. Brinkley back to court.
“For the sake of the children, [Brinkley] is hopeful that Mr. Cook will cease his attacks on his children’s mother.”
After seeing the statement, an infuriated Cook threatened to renege on the agreement and proceed with a trial.
“I was stunned at the audacity,” he said of the pre-dawn release. “I know [Brinkley’s] a liar. So it didn’t surprise me that she would lie about the facts. It’s nonsensical. It’s a fantasy.”
Because of the upheaval, Judge Mark Cohen ordered Brinkley — who had not originally been required to attend the hearing — to trek from her Bridgehampton home to the courthouse to deal with the snag and finally ink their pact.
Afterward, both sides claimed victory.
Cook’s lawyer, James Winkler, said Cook was given make-up visitation time with his son for the passport debacle and increased summer visitation.