Cristina Perez - Five Minute Recess

Ding! Ding! Here we go again with another public divorce battle that every entertainment journalist seems to take great joy into comparing to a boxing match.

What is it about models and bitter, public divorces lately? First, as documented in my previous blogs, there was Denise Richards and her apparent battle to make the details of her divorce from Charlie Sheen as public and accessible to their children as possible. Recently, the news outlets have launched into a fresh frenzy, with dirty details emerging about the divorce of Christie Brinkley and her estranged husband, architect Peter Cook, after their 10-year marriage (which ended in 2006).

Instead of a war of “he said vs. she said,” this battle, at first glance, appears to be fairly one-sided: She said he cheated, he pleads no contest to that charge. But even such a seemingly clear-cut admission of guilt hasn’t stopped Brinkley or Cook, via their respective attorneys, from finding other ways of taking jabs at each other.