Stephanie Seymour vs. Peter Brant: Supermodel vs. Billionaire Divorce Starts Ugly

Stacy Schneider, Esq.

Victoria’s Secret supermodel Stephanie Seymour should trade in her lingerie for a full set of body armor. She needs it to defend herself from soon-to-be ex-husband, billionaire Peter Brant. Seymour is suing the polo player for divorce in a bucolic Connecticut courthouse which is no stranger to high net worth splits, and he has already come out swinging. Although the former Sports Illustrated cover girl started the court proceedings, Brant started the battle. And the writing is on the court house wall– Brant won’t be fighting fair.

Brant, who did jail time in the nineties for tax evasion, already has the reputation of being a ruthless hothead, both on and off the polo field. Now he has turned his venom toward his wife. Before the first shots were even fired in court this earlier this month, the Supermodel came home to find Brant changed all the locks on the doors of their Greenwich mansion. He then forced her to sleep in the maid’s quarters. Foreshadowing a likely child custody skirmish, Brant shocked Seymour by allegedly trying to block her from picking up their daughter at school. Could this divorce be shaping up as a version of Beauty and the Beast?

At 62 years old, one would think that Brant, although a spoiled baby boomer, had learned by now the virtues of decorum and gentlemanly reserve. But apparently this hubby wants nothing more than to make the mother of his three children miserable, sucker punching her every chance he gets.

I say be prepared for him to take cheap shots by resurrecting Seymour’s notorious past. The runway model dated rockers and admittedly dabbled in drug use. But that was at least 15 years ago, before she and Brant married. Nonetheless, Brant is demanding that his wife undergo drug and alcohol testing. This is the red flag for an upcoming lethal legal strategy. Nothing like setting the stage for a possible “bad mother/ drug abuser” allegation to gain leverage in a child custody dispute. In divorce court, it’s the billionaire tactic de jure, used to get a wife to back down on other issues-like how little money she’s willing to take to go away quietly in exchange for the kids.

This former Connecticut divorce lawyer’s advice to Ms. Seymour: Make sure your divorce lawyer is the toughest, most vicious pit bull around-and have him sink his teeth into Peter Brant’s leg. You had an early preview of how this battle is going to shake down, and it’s not going to be pretty. Especially, when you have a husband who is not an example of model behavior.

Stacy Schnieder is the author of He Had It Coming: How to Outsmart your Husband and Win your Divorce.

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hitesh009 on June 12, 2009 7:47 pm
I say be prepared for him to take cheap shots by resurrecting Seymour’s notorious past. The runway model dated rockers and admittedly dabbled in drug use. But that was at least 15 years ago, before she and Brant married. Nonetheless, Brant is demanding that his wife undergo drug and alcohol testing. This is the red flag for an upcoming lethal legal strategy. Nothing like setting the stage for a possible “bad mother/ drug abuser” allegation to gain leverage in a child custody dispute. In divorce court, it’s the billionaire tactic de jure, used to get a wife to back down on other issues-like how little money she’s willing to take to go away quietly in exchange for the kids.

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Marcy Webb on January 12, 2010 1:39 am
She married THAT?! Wow…
keith morse on January 26, 2010 4:24 am
This is one of the most biased one sided articles that I have ever read in a suposed objective story. But when I discovered that the author of the article had also penned ” He had it coming: how to outsmart your husband and win your divorce” it all made perfect sense. He had it coming, sounds like a line from the musical Chicago with Catherine Zeta Jones Douglas…… Anyway from the research I did on the internet and newspapers it sounds like they deserve each other. I’ll be honest, I totally detest the super rich and only feel sympathy for her children. I wonder if her filing had anything to do with the fact that her husbands net worth has plumeted from 1.3 billion to approximately 600 million. If your spouse of over 15 years filed for divorce and had supposedly pilfered 700k worth of household items what would you do? I realize that was probably a toothbrush and a couple of hand toweles but its the principle ….right? This broad has got more smoking guns than Tiger Woods has bimbos, she has an extremely chekered past not that Peter is an angel either, but multiple ex’s with multiple trips to rehab to boot its easy to see that she is a gold digging home wrecker who is a sociopathic narcissist. What I cannot believe is that her idiot husband didn’t even get a prenup, espeacially when he and the Donald have been friends since early childhood. I mean she’s ruined every relationship ever encountered. And for Peter’s part, he dumps his current wife to run off with this party girl tramp and doesn’t know a thing about her past and marries her. Any person who is willing to involve themselves with married people should never be trusted as far as they can be thrown, it’s just stupid. As the Donald says ( many times ) ” sign upon the dotted line “
In the Know on March 25, 2010 2:03 am
Lets not forget that the wife he left was a lesbian and they were already getting a divorce when he met stephanie!!!!!!
DB on January 13, 2011 10:11 pm
Women must take responsibility in these situations. Clearly, the man is not the most honest upstanding guy. Obtaining that level of wealth ALWAYS comes with acts of ruthless behavior. That said ladies, if you marry for money be well prepared to accept the inevitable. These men ripped out the hearts of their competitors to make to the top and will treat their wives in the same manner.