Lover Used Craigslist To Torture Steve Phillips' Wife

The 22-year-old ESPN production assistant whose affair with ESPN analyst and former Mets GM Steve Phillips was revealed yesterday, was apparently very resourceful in trying to harass Phillips' wife. Brooke Hundley (dubbed a "tubby temptress" by the Post, which also offers "video geek to superfreak") placed an ad on Craigslist to hire someone to call Marni Phillips and break the news of the affair. Hundley's script for the caller: " As you can probably tell Steve hasn't been himself lately [pause and act like this is really hard for you to tell her]... It's because he's cheating on you with a young woman at our work."

Connecticut waitress Courtney Arp told the Post that Hundley—claiming she was a friend of Marni Phillips—offered her $50 to call Phillips' wife, "She said she didn't want to do it herself because she said her 'friend' would recognize her voice and wouldn't take her seriously. She had a script all prepared, and she e-mailed it to me in advance." You can read the script here; Hundley helpfully provided motivation, like:

"The big thing on this is to act like you're having a hard time telling her this and you feel just absolutely awful I really need her to see that this isn't some prank, but an actual woman who's seen it all. In all honestly he's a disgusting bastard who's already come clean about a series of affairs he had and she took him back once, I just need her to finally see he hasn't changed, he's just gotten better at cheating."

For his part, Phillips announced he was taking a leave of absence from ESPN, which had suspended him, "I am deeply sorry that I have put my family and colleagues through this. It is a personal matter that I will not comment on further" and said his leave was "to address this with my family and to avoid any unnecessary distractions through the balance of the baseball playoffs." The Post says that he's suspected of sleeping with several ESPN employees. Wonder if he also gave them the "don't worry about getting pregnant because I had a vasectomy line" too!

Marni Phillips, described by the Post as "beautiful, blond, green-eyed," has filed for divorce, but she and Phillips have not pressed charges, even though Hundley trespassed at their Connecticut home and though Hundley cyberstalked their 16-year-old son, possibly using ESPN computers.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 22, 2009 11:18 AM

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Will Yablome

She must have hidden talent...

felixthecat2

NY Post has lots of statements except from Vivanne Delgado. Where was she?

militza

[pause and act like this is really hard for you to tell her]

the prompting is the most hysterical part.

I take it the person hired was not a professional actor. heehee.

also, you guys are very hard on her appearance. don't tell me you've never slept with a woman and then woke up in the morning wondering "what did I sleep with?"

jaycjay

"I take it the person hired was not a professional actor."

Reportedly she's an waitress; so no, not a professional actor so far.

pudeljung

this whole story is so... so...

AW NAHHHHH!!!!

ides_of_march

If you're going to risk your marriage and career on some psycho bitch from hell, at least find a hot looking one.

As Gothamist astutely pointed out yesterday, this is the man that signed Mo Vaughn for 40 million. He's clearly prone to catastrophic lapses of judgement.

marcasm

She looks a lot older than 22. It's hard to believe that he could not do any better. She must have some very special skills.

Splicer

I've heard giving rim jobs goes a long way towards forgetting the horse face.

NannyState

So she really did measure that birthmark!

zodak

can we please see photos of Marni Phillips instead of this girl? please! the goggles, they do nothing.

jaycjay

Marni's picture is here:

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/loony_lover_brooke_hundley_used_6LYpJb0go7ymKMwTyZOlPI

Jenny

No, that's the pic of Ms. Arp, the waitress hired to call Marni Phillips by Hundley from Craigslist.

jaycjay

Ah, OK.

Seems like there aren't any verifiable photos available online. Good for her.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=50117

ProcedureTurn

radioactive maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Steven

This happens all the time every day. It's just that Steve Phillips is famous so it's in the news.

Rule #1 is keep your pants on. If your not happy then try to work it out or break up.

sexisicilian

Thank you. My ex-shit bag cheated on me after 5 yrs with a real prostitute who also happened to be a psycho: he got arrested & lost his teaching license because of her! Karma is a bitch cause I got the last laugh ... always do; luv it :))))))) What goes around comes around; so true !!

Brado

If there ever was a better argument for the "No Fat Chicks" rule, I can't think of one.

Tower18

You know, it's too bad. The guy cheats and the woman always comes out looking worse in the media.

hotstepper

i would say the plotting, harassment, stalking, and general psychotic behavior would be the keynote of this case, rather than a perceived media gender bias.

also, dupree was a whore. that's a guaranteed barrel-of-monkeys for the media wanksters.