NY- Christie Brinkley’s soon-to-be-ex hubby isn’t just a serial teen romancer – he was once a Hamptons drug dealer.
In the latest humiliation for the supermodel mom, court papers obtained by The Post reveal two-timing playboy Peter Cook was busted for selling a gram of coke to an undercover cop in 1982 – and served two months in 1983 in a Suffolk County jail.
Brinkley’s estranged husband was “dealing fairly extensively in the Southampton and Bridgehampton areas,” the narcotics officer who caught him said in a probation officer’s report.
The cop learned of Cook’s nefarious activities from another drug source – a mysterious snitch referred to only as Cook’s pal “Nicky.”
The now-successful architect was arrested at a rest stop off Route 495 in Huntington on Nov. 10, 1982, and charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance, a felony.
The cop to whom he sold $125 worth of coke said he “felt bad” at first because the prepster seemed like “a good kid,” the papers said.
But then he decided Cook was “a typical Hampton kid who was insincere, uncooperative and uncaring.”
Particularly galling to the officer was that Cook “split to Europe in [sic] a vacation instead of cooperating.”
Cook’s lawyer later testified that his client told the cop he was going to Europe.
At the time, his mother and Exxon-exec father were living in England.
Both the cop and the district attorney asked the judge to give Cook – then a model – a year in the big house.
The probation officer disagreed.
“We do not feel that he is or will be a threat to society, we cannot concur of the recommendations proffered by the ADA’s Office and/or narcotics authorities,” probation officer Carol Elio wrote.
Cook, then 23, pleaded guilty in February 1983 and was sentenced to three months in prison and five years’ probation.
That slap on the wrist was too hard for Cook, who appealed. He lost.
On Sept. 12, 1983, Cook became a guest of the state at Suffolk County jail for two months.
Cook had no criminal record prior to his drug bust, the records indicate.