Christie Brinkley was a model witness (pun intended) laughing, crying and flashing her baby blues as she told how her “picket fence” marriage collapsed in a “nightmare” of infidelity and Internet porn.After hours of wrenching testimony in which she described the moment she learned of her husbands affair with a teenager, which she said completely shattered her world, Christie Brinkley showed she’s still a class act, telling the press waiting outside the courtroom that she wanted to send a message to the young woman her husband seduced.

Diana Bianchi, now 21, was just 17 when Brinkleys estranged husband Peter Cook, met her. Cook hired her to work in his architecture firm and once she was legal he pounced. Brinkley said she wanted to let Bianchi know she forgives her.

Id just like to say after two days of testimony that I cant help but think about Diana Bianchi, and I want her and her family to know that I feel really badly for them, said Brinkley. I feel bad for her and I forgive her completely.

She was manipulated.

Brinkley’s, retelling of how she learned Cook, 49, was a cad, captivated the packed courtroom. It happened June 25, 2006, as she was basking in applause after delivering a high-school commencement speech in Southampton, L.I. Suddenly, a man she didn’t know, Bianchi’s stepfather, Brian Platt, a local cop approached and whispered in her ear.

“That husband of yours just won’t knock it off,” he said “He’s having an affair with my teenage daughter. That bastard won’t knock it off…so I had to come to you.”

Brinkley didn’t recognize Platt and looked over at her husband in confusion. One glance and she knew the man was telling the truth.

“Peter’s face was so tense. His lips were so tight. His lips were saying, ‘No, no,’” she recalled, locking eyes with Cook. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, he did that!’”

Back to the teenage mistress for a moment. Wednesday Diana Bianchi gave a tentative account on the stand of her affair with Cook. Cook gave Bianchi gifts of lingerie and cash, later paying her $300,000 not to reveal their affair to his wife. I am not sure I would be so forgiving as Christie Brinkley was knowing Bianchi took $300,000 in hush money!!

According to the latest edition of the National Enquirer, Bianchi, an aspiring singer, has been through a lot in the two years since ending her affair with a man nearly 30 years older. A friend claims Bianchi contemplated suicide and that she had issues with sexual addiction. She is also said to have dated music mogul Diddy, now 38, at a time when he was supposed to have been with his longterm girlfriend and mother of his twins, Kim Porter.

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The Madonna - Alex Rodriguez affair rumors are still going strong, inspite of the denials. The NY Daily News hears that A-Rod’s wife Cynthia Rodriguez, believes Madonna used kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star into believing they are “soulmates.”

Cynthia, who is hiding out at to rocker Lenny Kravitz’s Paris pad to avoid the limelight, is blaming the Material Girl for breaking up her five-year marriage, a close friend told the Daily News. Cynthia is supposedly telling close confidants that she discovered a note her husband wrote professing his true feelings to Madonna. The friend, who spoke anonymously for fear of angering A-Rod said: “She said she found a letter where Alex told Madonna: ‘You are my true soulmate.’”

A man dressed as Bozo, left, poses with Bozo creator, Larry Harmon

Larry Harmon who portrayed the wing-haired Bozo the Clown for more than half a century, has died at the age of 83.
Harmon, who first portrayed the beloved childrens character in the 1950s, reportedly suffered heart failure and passed away at his Los Angeles home on Thursday, according to his publicist Jerry Digney.
Pinto Colvig, who provided the voice for Walt Disney’s Goofy, was the first Bozo the Clown, a character created by writer-producer Alan W. Livingston for a series of children’s records in 1946. Harmon, real name Lawrence Weiss, became famed as Bozo the Clown after buying the licensing rights to the franchise from creator Alan W. Livingston and executives at Capitol Records in 1956. Along the way, he embellished Bozo’s distinctive look: the orange-tufted hair, the bulbous nose, the outlandish red, white and blue costume.
His entrepreneurship led to the creation of a series of cartoons, which he voiced, and the comic book character was later portrayed by other actors on local TV stations across the U.S.
Paying tribute to the star, his wife of 29 years, Susan Harmon, says, “(He was) the love of my life.
“He was the most optimistic man I ever met. He always saw a bright side; he always had something good to say about everybody.” Harmon is also survived by his son Jeff Harmon, and daughters Lori Harmon, Marci Breth-Carabet and Leslie Breth.

Actor Paul Hogan known for his CROCODILE DUNDEE movies is being investigated by authorities in his native Australia over alleged tax liabilities.
Aussie officials probing the actor have brought in the The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to help - by ordering three American banks to hand over nine years worth of his personal banking records.
Four companies related to the 68-year-old are also under investigation, court documents in Los Angeles reveal.
According to newspaper The Australian, Hogan is fighting the move, accusing the Australian Taxation Office of being on a “long-distance fishing expedition” to unlawfully obtain “irrelevant” information.
Hogan is the most high-profile target of a AUS$300 million ($290 million/145 million) operation into tax fraud and evasion. It is thought attention turned to Hogan after details of a number of offshore trusts and companies holding AUS$40 million ($38.8 million/19.4 million) was leaked to the press in 2005.
Hogan though speaking outside his mansion in Santa Barbara California, said: “They should build a statue of me up there at the tax office.”

“Come and get me,” Hogan said with a grin, in an obscenity-laced statement addressed to the Australian Taxation Office.

Thomas Beatie, the transgendered man who was seen on the Oprah Winfrey show has reportedly given birth to a girl, according to TMZ. The 34 year old man was born a female, but had a sex change is now legally a male. Thomas, formerly known as Tracy Lagondino, became pregnant and battled doctors refusing to care for him during his pregnancy.

It’s rumored that Beatie, who caused outrage for being a pregnant man, checked into the hospital (St. Charles Medical Center) in Bend, Oregon under a fake name and was completely separated from the other expectant mothers on Monday morning. The baby was delivered by C-section later that day.

Congratulations to Thomas and Nancy!

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