Christie Brinkley (born February 2, 1954) is a former American fashion model.

Brinkley had a romantic relationship with Olivier Chandon de Brailles, heir to the Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. The two met in 1982 at Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Brinkley appeared. Chandon died a year later in 1983 in an auto-racing accident.

Brinkley has married four times. Her first three marriages were to artist Jean-François Allaux (1973–1981), Read more...

Errol Sawyer, an African-American photographer from New York City, son of playwright Robert Earl Sawyer, discovered Christie Brinkley at a local post office on the rue de la Gaité in the 14th arrondissement in Paris during the spring of 1973. Following a brief interview and a short series of headshots, he introduced Brinkley to model agent John Casablancas of Elite Model Management with whom Read more...