I’ve been inside the Celebrity Divorce Court everybody’s talking about. But I had no time to blog. I was too busy typing up some 30 pages of courtroom notes and beaming them back to my colleagues via blackberry. I had my wrists and thumbs on ice all weekend.

But the testimony was so juicy I couldn’t stop typing. It was like watching a Lifetime movie.
A legendary Supermodel marries a handsome cad who turns out to be no Superdad… Christie told of how she thought their life in the idyllic Hamptons was perfect, until the day a stranger shattered her world forever.

Moments after Christie delivered a commencement speech at Southampton High School on Long Island, NY, a man tapped her on the shoulder and whispered “Your b—— of a husband is having an affair with my step daughter. He won’t knock it off. She’s just 19 years old.”

Peter originally tried to deny it all to Christie, but finally ‘fessed up in both public and private. He was the first to take the stand. He told of how he first met and bedded the young Diana Bianchi… How he gave her a job doing odds and ends around his office. He paid her 20 grand for a summer’s worth of work, but would also leave extra cash for her in hiding places. When Diana took the stand, there was much hubbub amongst the press when we realized one of the former lovers was lying.

A couple of Peter and Diana’s stories just didn’t match up. First off, Peter denied giving Diana money for a down payment on her new Nissan Maxima. But she claims he gave her 15,000 dollars cash (that’s on top of that original 20G…). Peter said he left her a few hundred bucks under a rock outside his office. When Diana was asked about this, she said yes she retrieved money from beneath a rock. But that rock was not at his office. It was near the mailbox at the 30 million dollar mansion Peter shared with Christie and the kids.
Christie owns that mansion and is the family breadwinner. The bulk of her money is safe thanks to a pre-nup. So this trial is mainly over custody of their two kids: Sailor, 10, and Jack who is 13. Jack is actually the biological son of Christie’s third husband Richard Taubman. But Peter adopted him shortly after marrying Christie 10 years ago.

Christie is using Peter’s apparent internet porn addiction as a reason not to share custody. As part of his great confession, he gave Christie all of his screen names and passwords for email and adults-only websites. She soon found out Peter was spending up to $3600 dollars a month online. He would pay women to strip for him via web cam. He would sometimes transmit live video images of himself doing things too…(just let your mind wander). And he paid membership fees for sites swingers use to find people to have sex with, “no strings attached”.
Christie says he described himself in his profile as “a fit, very good looking guy”. He also included a naked photo showing off his private parts and a note saying “if you like what you see so far, contact me.” Christie says it’s clear he was trying to meet up with people, but Peter denies that.

The trial starts up again today and could last over a month. At last count Christie was ready to call 44 witnesses and Peter has 20. Stay tuned!

Below is a clip from Friday’s “Live Desk”: