News about Christie Brinkley, Billy Joel

"Uptown Girl" is a song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel from his ninth studio album An Innocent Man (1983), released in September 1983 as the album's second single. The lyrics describe a working-class "downtown man" attempting to woo a wealthy "uptown girl".

In 1994, Brinkley survived a helicopter crash that occurred during a ski trip in Telluride, Colorado. As a result, she suffered years of hip pain, culminating in a full hip replacement in 2021. Brinkley's fourth marriage was in 1996, to architect Peter Halsey Cook. Cook and Brinkley met in 1979 when he was modeling.