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

Ex-Met GM's dumped mistress has a 'Fatal Attraction' freakout

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

Last Updated: 4:43 PM, October 22, 2009

Posted: 4:14 AM, October 21, 2009

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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.

Photos: ESPN's Steve Phillips in foul affair

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

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Too sweet

02/08/2010 1:43 PM

what is he doing w/ Joba?
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kramden

10/25/2009 11:55 AM

Steve's the victim here!
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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?