By SELIM ALGAR, KIERAN CROWLEY and HASANI GITTENS
Last updated: 7:22 am
July 3, 2008
Posted: 3:39 am
July 3, 2008
The doe-eyed beauty at the center of Christie Brinkley's divorce case took the stand yesterday as the star witness and dished on the sordid affair that was ultimately the death knell for the supermodel's marriage.
"We had been working together and he'd shown interest in me and I had reciprocated," the now 22-year-old testified about her steamy year-long affair with architect Peter Cook.
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Bianchi - who hunched over in a vain attempt to hide from the stares of the entire courthouse as she clutched her mother's arm and even wore a rosary on her wrist - never painted herself as a victim of Cook's wily charms, instead she categorized the feelings as mutual.
"He asked me how I would feel if he told me he was attracted to me," she said before admitting, "I was a bit taken aback, but I really wasn't against it."
Wearing a short-sleeved, frilly white blouse and a demure, long gray skirt, Bianchi spoke with a tiny, shaken voice as she recounted the intimate details of their tawdry trysts and the money he showered her with.
She countered Cook's claims from earlier in the day that he once hid $500 under a rock near his office in Southampton. Instead, she said it was under a rock at the Bridgehampton home he lived in with Brinkley and their kids.
Cook also testified that he only gave Bianchi $20,000 as part of her official duties pushing papers at his office, but Bianchi claimed he doled out an extra $15,000 for a down payment on a new Nissan Maxima in 2005.
"I didn't know how to buy a car so he basically just walked me through the process," she said under questioning from Brinkley's lawyer, Robert Cohen.
Asked if Cook bought anything else for her, Bianchi described him as a dutiful sugar daddy.
"Yes," she said, "Just odds and ends, things that I needed - If I had a problem, if I was in a bind, he would help me out."
But she claimed, "I would not be able to give you specific amounts."
That was before Cook paid her $300,000 in May 2007 to keep mum about their relationship - a hush-money sum The Post reported last week.
