EXCLUSIVE: ESPN's Steve Phillips in foul affair with production assisant

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EXCLUSIVE: ESPN's Steve Phillips in foul affair with production assisant
Ex-Met GM's dumped mistress has a 'Fatal Attraction' freakout

By JEANE MacINTOSH in Wilton, Conn., and DAN MANGAN in NY

Last Updated: 10:11 AM, October 21, 2009



Posted: 4:14 AM, October 21, 2009
She's not going to be ignored, Steve!

ESPN analyst Steve Phillips had a fling with a 22-year-old production assistant, who, after being dumped, taunted his wife with "Fatal Attraction"-like phone calls and a letter that bragged about her sexcapades with Phillips while taking pot shots at their "loveless marriage," The Post has learned.

The former Met general manager, whose tenure with the team was rocked by admissions of infidelity, confessed to his wife and local cops that he had slept with ESPN assistant Brooke Hundley several times this past summer before dumping her.

In retaliation, the jilted young woman repeatedly phoned Phillips' wife, Marni, saying, "We both can't have him!" an explosive police report claims.

Hundley's desperate actions -- including accidentally smashing her car into a stone column while speeding away from the Phillips' home after leaving the letter -- terrified the family, according to the Wilton, Conn., police report.

LETTER: MISTRESS TO THE WIFE

STATEMENT FROM STEVE PHILLIPS

STATEMENT FROM MARNI PHILLIPS

STATEMENT FROM THEIR TEENAGE SON

"I have extreme concerns about the health and safety of my kids and myself," Steve Phillips said in a police statement, adding that the woman became "obsessive and delusional" after he dumped her.

But Phillips, 46, declined to pursue criminal charges against Hundley, a Bristol, Conn., woman who cops learned may have used an ESPN computer to contact Phillips' 16-year-old son on Facebook while posing as a high-school classmate.

Phillips -- who admitted having multiple affairs with women while working for the Mets -- is now being sued for divorce by his 40-year-old wife, the mother of his four sons. Two months ago, Phillips deeded the family's five-bedroom, multimillion-dollar Wilton home to her.

A source told The Post Phillips has been suspended for a week by ESPN -- which hired him in 2005 as a baseball analyst -- because of the scandal.

ESPN refused to comment, and Phillips did not return calls seeking comment.

Hundley, too, refused to talk when reached by The Post last night.

The bombshell developments come 11 years after Phillips took a brief leave of absence as the Mets' GM after admitting to having sex with a team employee, Rosa Rodriguez, who sued him for sexual harassment, a case later settled out of court.

In a Wilton police report obtained by The Post, Phillips said he first met Hundley on July 13 in St. Louis when she was working as an assistant for remote-game productions for ESPN.

"Over a three-week span, I had a total of three sexual encounters with her," Phillips said in his police filing. "Those were the only times I spent any time alone with her."

He said his rejection of Hundley was "met by varying degrees of disappointment and hurt; more than was appropriate based on what the relationship was."

Then, Marni Phillips told cops, on the night of Aug. 5, she began repeatedly receiving harassing phone calls and text messages from a woman who claimed to have information about her husband.

When Marni called Phillips at work, he came home and confessed to the affair.

On Aug. 16, Marni said, Hundley left her "a detailed and very disturbing voice-mail message on my cellphone and a [text] message late that night."

"The tone of the text message was, 'I care about Steve, I make him happy, and we both can't have him,' " Marni said.

Steve and Marni Phillips were unaware at the time that their son had been contacted on the Internet by someone identifying herself as a classmate, asking him personal questions about the family.

"She said that she had overheard my mom telling someone at my brother's baseball game that my dad really likes someone at work and is probably going to move out and that if I need to talk to anyone, she would be willing to listen because her parents went through the same thing," the boy told cops.

"She asked inappropriate questions about my parents, such as: Do they sleep in the same bed? Do you think they will be getting a divorce? Do they fight a lot?" the youth added.

He said the woman even tried flirting with him to get information.

"She told me that she had stopped by the [football] field before to see me [practice] . . . She often awkwardly, flirtatiously complimented me, saying that I was a very sweet and nice guy."

But the son said he grew angry when she referred to his mother as his dad's "baby mama."

"[She] would often make comments of how lucky my mom was to marry a guy with money and not have to work . . . The tone was very jealous," he said.

The boy added that when he didn't immediately respond to the writer, she would start bombarding him with messages.

"Countless times, she asked me for my home phone number and stated that . . . her parents needed to contact my mother immediately," the rattled teen said.

The kid also began receiving numerous Facebook friend-requests from Hundley.

Marni Phillips, a stunning, green-eyed blonde, told cops that on Aug. 19, she drove home with her 7-year-old son and spotted a woman walking down the driveway to a parked car.

"I knew instinctively this was the woman Steve was involved with and I was terrified," Marni told cops. "I immediately called 911. She got in her car, put it in reverse and smashed the rear end of her vehicle into the stone column."

Marni then found the letter stuck in the door.

In the letter, Hundley details her affair with Phillips, and mentions "a big birthmark on his crotch . . . and one on his left inner thigh, so you know I'm not being fake."

Additional reporting by Phil Mushnick and Austin Fenner

jeane.macintosh@nypost.com

She's not going to be ignored, Steve!

ESPN analyst Steve Phillips had a fling with a 22-year-old production assistant, who, after being dumped, taunted his wife with "Fatal Attraction"-like phone calls and a letter that bragged about her sexcapades with Phillips while taking pot shots at their "loveless marriage," The Post has learned.

The former Met general manager, whose tenure with the team was rocked by admissions of infidelity, confessed to his wife and local cops that he had slept with ESPN assistant Brooke Hundley several times this past summer before dumping her.


In retaliation, the jilted young woman repeatedly phoned Phillips' wife, Marni, saying, "We both can't have him!" an explosive police report claims.

Hundley's desperate actions -- including accidentally smashing her car into a stone column while speeding away from the Phillips' home after leaving the letter -- terrified the family, according to the Wilton, Conn., police report.


"I have extreme concerns about the health and safety of my kids and myself," Steve Phillips said in a police statement, adding that the woman became "obsessive and delusional" after he dumped her.

But Phillips, 46, declined to pursue criminal charges against Hundley, a Bristol, Conn., woman who cops learned may have used an ESPN computer to contact Phillips' 16-year-old son on Facebook while posing as a high-school classmate.

Phillips -- who admitted having multiple affairs with women while working for the Mets -- is now being sued for divorce by his 40-year-old wife, the mother of his four sons. Two months ago, Phillips deeded the family's five-bedroom, multimillion-dollar Wilton home to her.

A source told The Post Phillips has been suspended for a week by ESPN -- which hired him in 2005 as a baseball analyst -- because of the scandal.

ESPN refused to comment, and Phillips did not return calls seeking comment.

Hundley, too, refused to talk when reached by The Post last night.

The bombshell developments come 11 years after Phillips took a brief leave of absence as the Mets' GM after admitting to having sex with a team employee, Rosa Rodriguez, who sued him for sexual harassment, a case later settled out of court.

In a Wilton police report obtained by The Post, Phillips said he first met Hundley on July 13 in St. Louis when she was working as an assistant for remote-game productions for ESPN.

"Over a three-week span, I had a total of three sexual encounters with her," Phillips said in his police filing. "Those were the only times I spent any time alone with her."

He said his rejection of Hundley was "met by varying degrees of disappointment and hurt; more than was appropriate based on what the relationship was."

Then, Marni Phillips told cops, on the night of Aug. 5, she began repeatedly receiving harassing phone calls and text messages from a woman who claimed to have information about her husband.

When Marni called Phillips at work, he came home and confessed to the affair.


On Aug. 16, Marni said, Hundley left her "a detailed and very disturbing voice-mail message on my cellphone and a [text] message late that night."

"The tone of the text message was, 'I care about Steve, I make him happy, and we both can't have him,' " Marni said.

Steve and Marni Phillips were unaware at the time that their son had been contacted on the Internet by someone identifying herself as a classmate, asking him personal questions about the family.

"She said that she had overheard my mom telling someone at my brother's baseball game that my dad really likes someone at work and is probably going to move out and that if I need to talk to anyone, she would be willing to listen because her parents went through the same thing," the boy told cops.

"She asked inappropriate questions about my parents, such as: Do they sleep in the same bed? Do you think they will be getting a divorce? Do they fight a lot?" the youth added.

He said the woman even tried flirting with him to get information.

"She told me that she had stopped by the [football] field before to see me [practice] . . . She often awkwardly, flirtatiously complimented me, saying that I was a very sweet and nice guy."

But the son said he grew angry when she referred to his mother as his dad's "baby mama."

"[She] would often make comments of how lucky my mom was to marry a guy with money and not have to work . . . The tone was very jealous," he said.

The boy added that when he didn't immediately respond to the writer, she would start bombarding him with messages.

"Countless times, she asked me for my home phone number and stated that . . . her parents needed to contact my mother immediately," the rattled teen said.

The kid also began receiving numerous Facebook friend-requests from Hundley.

Marni Phillips, a stunning, green-eyed blonde, told cops that on Aug. 19, she drove home with her 7-year-old son and spotted a woman walking down the driveway to a parked car.

"I knew instinctively this was the woman Steve was involved with and I was terrified," Marni told cops. "I immediately called 911. She got in her car, put it in reverse and smashed the rear end of her vehicle into the stone column."

Marni then found the letter stuck in the door.

In the letter, Hundley details her affair with Phillips, and mentions "a big birthmark on his crotch . . . and one on his left inner thigh, so you know I'm not being fake."

Additional reporting by Phil Mushnick and Austin Fenner
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[CoMoChief]

She's gross. I'd rather **** that Fugly Kansas City asian bitch from Myspace....posing by the car. LOL.



Anyone still have a pic of her? .

[DaWolf]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

WTF? Dude was willing to lose everything over that shit?

LOL. And to think this guy was an early candidate to take over for Baird before we hired Moore...

[Redrum_69]

The "Fatal Attraction" should only be used when there is a pet rabbit on the stove or a severed dogs head tossed in the doggie door aka "Fear"

[DaKCMan AP]

What a loser. I hope his wife takes him for all he's worth and he's left with nothing.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Read your rule book son, that's now how we talk about a team mate in trouble.
Unless of course your woman is reading over your shoulder and you are saying that for her benefit.

He's not a good teammate, though. He's a ball hog. Teammates in his position should be working on assists, not scoring.

[KCUnited]

Steve McNair thinks Phillips is crazy for tapping that.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

He's not a good teammate, though. He's a ball hog. Teammates in his position should be working on assists, not scoring.

Every man that owns property is a team mate and we never wish for anyone to have all of their property taken away.
It just isn't cricket.

[Silock]

THIS was worth it? LOL what a dumbass

[L.A. Chieffan]

silock, was that really necessary?

[L.A. Chieffan]

claythan will be here in a sec and says he'll slam it

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by L.A.Chieffan

silock, was that really necessary?

Not a pork lover?

[L.A. Chieffan]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Not a pork lover?

even if theyre pig i dont mind a lot but that one looks like a man, man

[Silock]

In the first one I posted, she kinda looks like Henry Winkler. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Every man that owns property is a team mate and we never wish for anyone to have all of their property taken away.
It just isn't cricket.

I understand your point in principle, and can see the logic behind it. However, as with all issues, there's a negotiating strategy where we can help the reasonable teammates by throwing the bad teammates in the fire.

For example, I think we hurt our cause and look unreasonable in the long run if we take stances like....

....why did the Allies take Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat? That was his, dammit!

and

...that ESPN goober is a creep, but his wife still shouldn't get all the stuff.


Those statements put the reasonable divorced guys in the same camp as Hitler and the ESPN goober, which is not a winning strategy. I propose that the strategy should be...

....if you're Hitler or that ESPN guy, you should be wiped out, because you're too stupid and/or evil to be trusted with property. Now if you're Ted over there who's getting divorced, that Ted guy should get to keep his stuff because he earned it and his only mistake is having a wretched wife.

[Buck]

Shes not your average 22 year old.