Andrea Peyser

Andrea Peyser

US News

Gals, don’t fall for cad boys like Christie Brinkley’s ex Peter Cook

Horny toads don’t change their ways. They just get slimier with age.

A bit of advice to any woman who’s deluded herself into believing that she’s landed a knight in shining armor, only to see her dreams of happily-ever-after rocked by suspicions of flagrant infidelity: Check references.

I’m talking about supermodel Christie Brinkley’s ex-husband Peter Cook, a white-toothed glam guy and unspeakable cad who cheated on her during their 12-year marriage with a teenager and engaged in an Internet porn habit alleged to have cost $3,000 a month. Then he blamed Brinkley, in a postdivorce TV interview with Barbara Walters, for driving him into the arms of a younger babe — because she didn’t pay enough attention to him.

Holy narcissism!

Now 60, Brinkley is an ageless stunner who’s getting the last laugh, although I doubt she’s enjoying it. In an episode that’s become the talk of the Hamptons, Long Island’s summer playground for the rich, the powerful and assorted hangers-on, Cook, an architect of 55, is again chasing skirts and short-shorts, Emily Smith of Page Six first reported.

The lusty, middle-aged antics prompted Cook’s current wife, Suzanne Shaw, to move out of the house she shared with him in Sag Harbor and file for a legal separation at the end of February. She took her teenage daughter from a previous union with her.

This is the lady who stayed at Cook’s side during his bruising 2008 divorce from Brinkley. I’ve had root canals that were less painful.
Don’t say Brinkley didn’t try to warn her.

Christie Brinkley and philandering ex Peter Cook in happier times.Joan Jedell

“When you find out he’s been cheating on you, I’ll be there for you,’’ Brinkley seethed at Shaw during a 2012 court appearance on Long Island in which she and her ex fought over child custody. She bent down and theatrically touched her replacement’s hand.

“Come up with a new line,’’ Shaw shot back.

She may live to regret those words.

Shaw, who married Cook on Valentine’s Day 2012, had no comment for this column. Peter, never at a loss for words when it came to trashing Brinkley, grew testy when I reached him on the telephone.

“I’m great,’’ he said after I asked how he was doing. “I have no comment. I’m not interested in sharing my private life again.’’ He kept talking.

“This is a private matter. Things are quiet with my current situation until little people with little lives are talking about it.’’ Well, I did once call him in print “an aging, controlling sex addict.’’ (Hey, Brink­ley was “the aging, controlling supermodel who divorced him.’’)

Brinkley would not comment.

The stories of Cook’s escapades are spilling out of the Hamptons like beach sand.

“Different woman, different day,’’ snarked one observer. Shaw “stood by him. She supported him.’’ But with Cook, “things don’t change.’’

A source told me a story, also relayed to Smith, that Cook was seen tooling around Sag Harbor in a silver, convertible sports car. After spotting “two very young girls’’ in very brief shorts, he pulled a quick U-turn, pulled out his iPhone and took pictures of them.

This is not illegal. This is gross.

Cook and Brinkley’s five-day divorce trial included revelations that Cook bedded Diana Bianchi, whom he started wooing when she was 17. Their affair began after Cook hired Bianchi to create a Web site when she was 18.

They had sex right in his Hamptons architectural office, she told me in 2006.

“He told me he was unhappy, he’d been having problems at home,’’ she said.

Cook gave up, and he and Brinkley settled their divorce. Brinkley, whose net worth at the time was estimated at $60 million, agreed to hand Cook $2.1 million, a pittance. She also got custody of their kids, while Cook got visitation rights. They’re Jack, now 19, Christie’s son from her third marriage, to Richard Taubman, whom Cook adopted, and Sailor, the daughter she bore with Cook. Now 16, Sailor signed last year with IMG Models, like her mother. (Brinkley’s also mom to Alexa, 28, a daughter from the second of her four marriages, to singer Billy Joel. She was not involved in this case.)

She won the divorce battle. But Cook was victorious in another way. “I’m not going to marry again,’’ Brinkley told me after the case was over. She knew too much.

If only Suzanne Shaw had paid attention to Christie Brinkley.

It might have saved her a world of hurt.

Justin Bieber: Alien from (S)hell

Justin Bieber was one angry egg-thrower. The train-wreck singer, 20, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor vandalism charge Wednesday for tossing eggs at his neighbor’s California house. A judge ordered him to pay $80,900 in damages, serve two years’ probation, complete five days of community labor, attend a 12-week anger-management program and stay away from the victim he egged and his family for two years.

Bieber didn’t show up in court; his lawyer entered the plea for him.

It’s the least of his career-threatening worries. A Miami judge has set a date this month for Bieber to stand trial on charges of resisting arrest with violence and driving with an expired license. He’s charged in Toronto with assaulting a limousine driver.

He should go home to Canada for good.

Hillary’s tome-y ache

“Hard Choices” is tanking. Sales of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir sank to 16,000 copies in its most recent week, according to Nielsen BookScan, which measures 85 percent of the print market but not e-books. Nielsen reported that 177,000 copies of the $35 book ($20.94 on Amazon.com) sold in its first month — 85,000 of those in the first week.

Execs at Simon & Schuster are wringing their hands and pointing fingers at one another, The Post’s Page Six reported. Meanwhile, a book by Edward Klein, “Blood Feud,” which details tensions that, he wrote, exist between former President Bill Clinton and his wife and President Obama and First Lady Michelle has replaced “Hard Choices” in the No. 1 slot on the New York Times best-seller list, demonstrating that the public isn’t buying the sanitized picture that the former secretary of state and 2016 presidential probable paints of her life.

At this rate, the tome won’t make back the reported $14 million advance paid to Hillary. Look for it on the $1 sale rack. That’s more than it’s worth.

‘Juror’ Madonna is a lucky star

Pop diva Madonna got the star treatment from New York City court officials when she showed up, late, for jury duty. As ordinary dolts braved long lines to get past security, Her Madgesty sailed up the steps in front of Manhattan Supreme Court Monday, escorted by two court officers, three cops, two bodyguards and an assistant.

A female court officer scanned her chest with a hand-held wand after Madonna’s neck chains twice set off a metal detector. She made it through at 10:30 a.m. Normal potential jurors were expected to show up at 9.

Madonna, 55, then skipped the juror-intake room, where mere mortals wait up to eight hours on normal days to be called for cases. She cooled her heels for 90 minutes inside the chief clerk’s office before being dismissed from the jury pool.

Quit complaining, people.

The rich and fabulous have it better than you and me.