TV baseball analyst Steve Phillips had a brief affair with an ESPN production assistant who taunted his wife with "Fatal Attraction"-like phone calls and a letter that bragged about her sexual encounters with Phillips after being dumped, The New York Post reported.
The former New York Mets general manager told his wife and police he slept with Brooke Hundley, 22, multiple times this summer before dumping her. The woman repeatedly phoned Phillips' wife, Marni, saying, "We both can't have him!" the police report says.
Police believe she also posed as a high-school classmate to contact Phillips' 16-year-old son, according to The Post.
Hundley reportedly crashed her car while speeding away from the Phillips' home after leaving the letter, the Wilton, Conn., police report said.
"I have extreme concerns about the health and safety of my kids and myself," Steve Phillips said in a police statement, calling Hundley "obsessive and delusional" after he dumped her.
Phillips, who declined to pursue criminal charges against Hundley, is now being sued for divorce by his 40-year-old wife, the newspaper reported. Phillips deeded the family's five-bedroom, multimillion-dollar Wilton home to her two months ago.
A source told the paper Phillips has been suspended for a week by ESPN. A representative of the cable network refused to comment, and Phillips did not return calls seeking comment. Hundley refused to talk when reached by The Post on Tuesday.
The developments come 11 years after Phillips, 46, took a leave of absence as Mets GM after admitting to having sex with a female employee who sued him for sexual harassment, a case later settled out of court.
In a Wilton police report obtained by the newspaper, Phillips said he first met Hundley on assignment in St. Louis on July 13.
"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."
Marni Phillips told police she began receiving harassing phone calls and text messages Aug. 5. When Marni called Phillips at work, he came home and confessed to the affair, the paper reported.
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.
The Phillips were unaware that one of their four sons had been asked personal questions online by someone identifying herself as a classmate.
"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 police.
"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?" he added.
The boy added that when he didn't immediately respond to the writer, she would start bombarding him with messages.
Marni Phillips told police she drove home Aug. 19 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 police. "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, the newspaper reported, 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."
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