Judge orders Christie Brinkley to court

Posted by lena on Oct 13, 2009 in News | 0 comments

Tuesday after she did not appear for a hearing with ex-husband Peter Cook in an ongoing dispute over custody details for their two children.
An attorney for Cook, James Winkler of the Port Jefferson Station firm Winkler, Kurtz, Winkler & Kuhn, said a State Supreme Court judge “just ordered Ms. Christie Brinkley to start driving to the courthouse” in Riverhead.
Attorney Peter Caronia of Hauppauge, who represents Brinkley, said she would appear in court by 11 a.m.The order follows a morning of he-said, she-said finger-pointing between Brinkley’s and Cook’s attorneys after Caronia issued a statement claiming a settlement approved by the judge “does not grant any of the requests” sought by Cook regarding Jack, 14, and Sailor, 11.
But, officials said, no settlement has been approved.
Cook wanted Brinkley found in contempt of court for allegedly failing to deliver their son’s passport to his house in November, which, Cook said, caused Jack to miss a school trip to Egypt.
Caronia said an assistant dropped off the document at Cook’s East End home as Brinkley, of Bridgehampton, comforted a friend whose mother had died.
Walking into court Tuesday, Cook and Winkler appeared angered over Caronia’s statement.
“We were up to 2 o’clock in the morning trying to settle this case,” Winkler said, adding Cook is “furious about this.”
Later, Winkler told Newsday the release by Caronia and Brinkley was a “fake and phony statement” and misleading.
He said the real negotiations included tightening of language regarding the children’s passports.
Caronia said none of Cook’s “vindictive requests” have been provided for, “including, among others, his request for Ms. Brinkley to undergo anger management, for the appointment of a parenting counselor, and for the children’s passports to be held by a third party.”
However, Winkler said Cook had gotten “virtually everything he wanted,” including 50 percent summertime visitation with Jack and Sailor.
The former Uptown Girl and Cook were divorced a year ago following revelations Cook had an affair with a teen store clerk.
Cook told Newsday: “Fourteen months ago, I asked for my son’s passport so I could get a visa for him to go on a school trip . . . This is not about a stupid girlfriend.”
source: newsday.com