Why Christie Brinkley is done with marriage

Christie Brinkley is through with love, said Helena de Bertodano in the London Telegraph. The former supermodel, 57, has been married four times. “I have to be careful in husbands,” she admits. “Unfortunately, I trust everybody. I just think everybody is great.”

After divorcing her first husband, French artist Jean-François Allaux, she married singer Billy Joel in 1985. At first, the marriage was “a blast,” she says. “We literally never stopped singing the whole time we were together.’’ But the music stopped nearly a decade later, and they divorced in 1994. By then, Brinkley had fallen for Ricky Taubman, a real estate developer who’d been in a helicopter crash with her. “I even named my perfume after husband No. 3: Believe, because I still believed in love.” They lasted only a year.

But it was husband No. 4, Peter Cook, who really soured her. Cook had an affair with his 19-year-old assistant, leading to an ugly divorce. “I can now say unequivocally I would never get married again.” Should she ever design a perfume based on her feelings about marriage, she says, she has the perfect name. “Stinks. I would have to call it Stinks.”

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