They should have named it the Titanic.
More than a year after their nasty divorce trial, supermodel Christie Brinkley and ex-husband Peter Cook are still brawling over a fishing boat they once shared.
The two can’t agree on which charity should benefit from the sale of the ironically named Sweet Freedom. In their settlement, the couple agreed to sell the boat and split the proceeds — but then they decided to give the money to charity.
Brinkley has pointedly pushed for the money to go to a battered women’s shelter in East Hampton. Cook is lobbying for a group that helps troubled youth.
And despite having more than a year to sort out the mess, the former couple can’t even agree on a broker to handle the sale.
Models similar to the Duffy-brand vessel sell for upward of $200,000.
Cook, whose dalliance with teenage toy-store clerk Diana Bianchi sank his 10-year marriage, claims Brinkley gave him the boat as a 40th-birthday gift — which she denies.
The naval warfare took center stage during their divorce trial last year when pictures emerged showing Cook on the boat with the couple’s children, Jack and Sailor. Also along for the cruise was Cook’s latest crew mate, girlfriend Suzanne Shaw.
The 35-foot boat’s future is just part of the pair’s renewed war, which flared up in a Riverhead courtroom Wednesday and is expected to go to trial next week.
Both sides came out with cannons blazing, slamming each other for allegedly breaking various stipulations of their hard-fought divorce settlement.
Cook claims that Brinkley purposefully withheld their son Jack’s passport to prevent him from going on a trip to Egypt with his dad last year. He is demanding legal-fee reimbursement, new protocols for passport exchanges, and make-up visitation.
Brinkley wants Cook penalized for taking Shaw on the boat with their children. Brinkley’s spokeswoman, Amy Jacobs, said that Cook clearly violated a judge’s order to keep his kids away from his new squeeze.
Brinkley also wants Cook punished for appearing on talk shows after their settlement.
Judge Mark Cohen urged the battling couple to settle the case and avoid another trial for the sake of the children, but sources said a last-minute accord was unlikely.