Supermodel Stephanie Seymour accused of intimidating her children's nannies as divorce takes ugly twist
Their bitter divorce has taken them all the way to the courts.
But now supermodel Stephanie Seymour and her wealthy paper magnate husband Peter Brant are even rowing over the nannies.
In the latest court hearing he accused her of trying to intimidate their babysitters and force them to take her side.
But former Victoria's Secret pin-up Seymour, 40, hit back and claimed that Brant, 62, had asked one of the nannies spy on her.
She claimed that Cora Driv had been scribbling down her household activities and passing them to Brant to fill him in on what she has been up to.
'I have some of her handwritten notes,' Seymour said. 'She turned them into typed messages to make sure they were just so.'
The latest allegations came in the middle of the toxic divorce battle between the two - Brant is challenging Seymour's custody of their children: Peter Jr., 15, Harry, 12, and Lilly, 4 on the basis that she is an unfit mother.
The hearing took place because she missed a mandatory drug test whilst on holiday in the Caribbean.
Both she and Brandt have been ordered to submit to regular screening by the court.
Seymour was forced before a judge Connecticut after she missed the scheduled test while enjoying a sun-soaked vacation in St. Barts with two of their children.
She claimed she did not see emails which asked her to meet with a doctor who had been sent to her hotel to perform the test.
During the hearing Seymour said the nanny quit abruptly last Christmas, but later was found at Brant's home.
'My children told me, "Cora's back. Cora's back at the house",' Seymour said.
'I called the house and she picked up the phone. I spoke to Peter about it and he said, "Yeah, what's wrong with that?"'
In the hearing so far Judge Elaine Gordon has ordered Brant, who has assets totalling a reported £324 million, to begin paying his wife £179,000 a month in alimony and support for their three children.
The divorce proceedings began earlier this year.
Once the divorce is finalised, however, he may have to shall out even more, making a sizable dent in his £1million a month net income.
Astonishing details have emerged about how the couple lived on the opulent White Birch Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The 200 acre farm is adorned with artwork from Jeff Koons and is home to the professional polo team supported by Brant, although he is in the process of dismantling it along with selling around 40 horses he owns.
Even so, the property has a staff of seven and another 15 who work the farm.
They are also said to have with two other multimillion-dollar homes in Sagaponack, New York and Palm Beach, Florida.
Such is their extravagance that it was claimed in court that Miss Seymour spends a staggering £170,000 per month, including £33,000 on new clothes alone.
She became a top model aged just 16 and modelled for Sports Illustrated before dating rocker Axl Rose in the 1990s.
She starred in two Guns N' Roses videos before meeting married Brant who was married with five children at the time, but the two began a relationship anyway.
Brant, who was jailed briefly for tax evasion in 1990, made his fortune with his White Birch Paper Co., which operates six pulp and paper mills.
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