Christie Brinkley fielding 7-figure offers: Exclusive

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(NewsNation) — Christie Brinkley is hot these days.

The supermodel is reveling in the success of her autobiography, “Uptown Girl: A Memoir,” and is now fielding seven-figure offers for the film rights to the book.

”Everyone is dying to make a biopic of the book,” one spy said. “The book was so juicy and a Hulu or Netflix docuseries would do really well — just like (her ex) Billy Joel’s did.”

Joel’s two-part documentary, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” appeared on HBO this summer and is said to have done very well.

Described as “revelatory” by NPR, it delved into Joel’s life at the head of the music scene, fame, his marriages and his struggle with alcoholism.

People like Paul McCartney, Pink, Nas, Garth Brooks and Bruce Springsteen were all interviewed. But most of the doc came from interviews with his grown children, sister, former bandmates and his former wives, including Brinkley.

Christie Brinkley memoir revelations

And it’s Brinkley’s revelations in that doc as well as her autobiography that have producers salivating.

In the book, Brinkley was unflinchingly honest about her life.

Some of the biggest revelations, according to People, include:

  • She was relieved when her abusive biological father, Herb Hudson, gave up parental rights. She was then adopted by her stepfather, Don Brinkley.
  • She always believed Joel, who denied cheating on her during their marriage, which ended after “his drinking became bigger than both of us.”
  • Her third husband, Richard Taubman, betrayed her by contacting her bio-dad, Herb, and later told her, “We’re going to make a deal. I’m going to walk away from you and the baby just like Herb Hudson did.”

The book also details her devastating split from Peter Cook, an architect, whom she was married to from 1996 to 2008.

“It was the most tortured relationship I’ve ever had,” Brinkley wrote.

While giving a graduation speech at a Hamptons high school, a local police officer approached her and said, “Excuse me, I need to tell you that arrogant husband of yours has been having an affair with my teenage daughter.”

  • This cover image released b HarperCollins shows "Uptown Girl" a memoir by Christie Brinkley. (HarperCollins via AP)
  • Christie Brinkley

“I was so stunned that I froze,” she writes. She looked into the audience, where Cook was sitting with her son Jack.  “As soon as I saw him,” she continues, “Peter’s eyes were already trained on my face, as he began shaking his head, ‘No.’”

“When your whole world falls apart and you realize in a heartbeat you’ve suddenly become the cliche middle-aged woman whose husband is having an affair with a much (much) younger woman, what do you do?” she writes.

Christie Brinkley finds ex’s ‘labyrinth’ of files

In Cook’s office, she found a “labyrinth” of files. “A panoply of incriminating photos and porn accounts populated the screen like fireworks, and before I knew it, my printer was shooting [beaver shots] out into the room,” she writes. “It was so insane that it was almost funny, and soon enough, the three of us were doubled over in laughter, as printouts of girls in X-rated poses began piling up on the floor faster than trash outside a greasy takeaway.”

Brinkley soon filed for divorce from Cook, and the couple waged a nasty battle that went on for six years.

I’m also told that, along with the book, Brinkley has “extensive” video and photographs from throughout her life.

”It’s a documentarian’s dream,” my spy added.

A rep for Brinkley didn’t return emails.

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