My humorous side says “Christie……. take it all and then file a suit against the employee to prevent her from any future financial gain related to her relationship with your scab-of-a-man soon-to-be-ex husband.”

My jaw dropped when I read “… or finding out that he paid this young mistress nearly half-a-million dollars to keep mum?” What a total loser.

Go get ‘em, Christie… And, hopefully, you won’t have to pay the SOB one red cent. Oh, and by the way, life will be sooo very much better when this is over. And before there is a next time, I highly recommend David Richo’s CD set on Adult Relationships. It’s the best $75 I ever spent.. davidricho.com

Hard to believe that anyone would cheat on someone as beautiful and nice as Christie. At least, that’s the way she’s always appeared to me. If the allegations are true, then Cook is really a creep.

Joni, seven years? UGH! I hope Brinkley trounces Cook.

Didn’t she have a prenup? What happened, wasn’t she burned by the other one after Billy Joel as well? Christie, quit getting married. Take a break and relax for a while. I am glad she has a great lawyer. Did he give the mistress Christie’s money? It will all be revealed and I hope they take his ass to the cleaners.

WHY should family matters be made public? If either party objects to the public disclosure, the court should seal the file. Why should the parties to a divorce have their financial lifestyle exposed to the public, simply because they are seeking to terminate their marriage. There is NO public benefit to this information. Would you want for your divorce to be made public? Would you want everyone to know what your assets are, whether your husband was gay, and that you knew for the last few years, but you decided to stay with him for the sake of your children, that your husband was having an extramarital affair, on and on? It’s personal and would be embarrassing. Of course, corporations have been able to seal their product liability cases from public purview. When they are sued by an injured party, they require, as part of the settlement, that there be no disclosure of the settlement, or the subject matter of the case, and have the file sealed. This is done as a matter of course, and it injures the public. It hides information of defective products and exposes customers to these products to injury and death. (Take Ford Motor cases, for example, where people were killed and maimed.) I think the public should be demanding information that should be public, and not condoning the exposure of our private and personal lives.