EXCLUSIVE: ESPN's Steve Phillips in foul affair with production assistant
Ex-Met GM's dumped mistress has a 'Fatal Attraction' freakout
Last Updated: 4:43 PM, October 22, 2009
Posted: 4:14 AM, October 21, 2009
Comments: 285
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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.
22-year-old at center of ESPN scandal
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.
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.
Phillips has been suspended for a week by ESPN -- which hired him in 2005 as a baseball analyst -- because of the scandal.
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"We were aware of this and took appropriate disciplinary action at the time," ESPN said in a statement. "We have granted Steve's request for an extended leave of absence to allow him to address it. We have no further comment."
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.
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Comments (197)
Post Your CommentToo sweet
02/08/2010 1:43 PM
what is he doing w/ Joba?
Kypris
10/27/2009 3:44 PM
You don't bang an unattractive person because she looks good. You guys have this all wrong. He did her because it was a place he could have the power. And everyone is a twisted little creatures like that — we love to have power over things- even if it's an frumpy intern whose victory you have won over amounts to nothing else but a small boost in your self esteem. Duh. I don't know why this is such a surprise. In the laws of sex, a hole is just a hole. Boost up complete.
alaskan1
10/26/2009 9:18 AM
My God man....what were you thinking? Oh wait...you were not thinking with your head at all...but even though that is sometimes allowable...how did you EVER get excited when you looked at that thing???? Ugh....I think I am going to be sick..
alan robinson
10/26/2009 7:35 AM
So Phillips who was terminated by the Mets for an extra-marital affair is hired by ESPN and proceeds to bed a girl less than half his age who happens to be an underling in the organization. ESPN's response is to put him on leave for a week? How about termination and the 2 people most responsible for hiring him go too. Aren't these Corporate types always preaching accountability to the great unwahsed masses? This guy has a pronouned tendency toward pedophillic behavior. I mean really, an intern half your age that works as a subordinate. It appears the criticisms about the ESPN network management have some validity. Disney as owner of the network needs to step in and take decisive punitive action. When Phillips elected to sexually engage a work place subordinate he made it an official Corporate matter. What a loser. No wonder his wife wants nothing to do with him.
Frank Burns
10/26/2009 3:38 AM
Steve--Note to self--If your going to end your marriage and career over a woman please make sure shes more attractive than your present wife. What did you do put a bag over her body and turn out the ligts. Im getting sick.
goyanks
10/25/2009 12:56 PM
Coco said the he is "making her out to be a loon"? Coco, are you also living in la-la land?
Hello, but she is an nutty as they come, certifiable, whacked, CRAZY. Sane people do not pretend to be high school students and stalk children, sane people do not hire someone to call and threaten their f**k buddy's wife.
They need to lock her up and throw away the key.
Kramden
10/25/2009 11:55 AM
Steve's the victim here!
mrgee1959
10/25/2009 11:06 AM
another fun thought here. Why dont Letterman have as his guests on the show one night Phillips, Spitzer, Sanford and John Edwards?