Marni Phillips Photo, Brooke Hundley Pictures Hot Items in Steve Phillips Scandal

The Steve Phillips sex scandal has sparked an internet search for pictures of Brooke Hundley, the 22-year-old ESPN production assistant he had an affair with over the summer, and Marni Phillips, his soon-to-be ex-wife. It has become a time-tested format -- the obligatory photo comparison hunt, where internet users search the internet to compare the women in newly breaking or ongoing sex scandals. Wanted pictures of Brooke Hundley and Marni Phillips aside, the Steve Phillips sex scandal stands to be a prime candidate for a Lifetime network movie before all is said and done. Brooke Hundley's seeming obsession with the ESPN analyst after a few sexual encounters borders on the melodramatic, the bizarre, and what is commonly referred to as 'fatal attraction' behavior -- with Marni Phillips as the woman standing in the way of Brooke Hundley getting what she wanted.

Steve Phillips, in a statement he made to police after his affair got a little out of hand, said, "Over a three-week span, I had a total of three sexual encounters with her. Those were the only times I spent any time alone with her."

But those three times were enough to make such an impression on Brooke Hundley that she felt that Marni Phillips was superfluous to Steve Phillips' life. She sent text messages, left an ominous voice mail that maintained that both women could not have Phillips, and wrote a letter to Marni Phillips descrbing the couple's sexual escapades. Hundley backed into a stone column of the Phillips home after delivering said letter when she saw Marni Phillips drive up. It is even alleged that Brooke Hundley posed as a teen classmate of the Phillips' teenage son to get information from him about his parents.

It is those salacious and rather sinister details that drive the search for information about the scandal. And it is those same details that drive the search for pictures of the Brooke Hundley and Marni Phillips.

But then the comparisons begin and the puerile judgmentalism begins -- of who is better looking than who, of how it is understandable because of some superficial observation made from a photo, or how it is not understandable because of some superficial observation made from a photo.

Searches for pictures of Marni Phillips and Brooke Hundley are by no means the first. Monday evening and Tuesday saw the search for Leah Ignagni photos, the third woman (the "other, other woman") in the Steve McNair scandal. Searches for her's and Sahel Kazemi's pictures were the rage, just as Sahel Kazemi's photos were a hot search topic in July after the murder-suicide in Nashville, Kazemi's likeness being compared with Steve McNair's wife, Mechelle.

But there is an added element to the Steve Phillips scandal that may have been missing from the Steve McNair affair, where there was an air of mystery about the crime scene that lent itself to the possibility of a double homicide. In the Steve Phillips scandal, there is the added layer of overt obsessiveness.

In short, people will still want to compare Marni Phillips and Brooke Hundley, but they want to see pictures of Brooke Hundley just to get a glimpse of that someone perhaps mentally deranged enough to stalk a man's family.

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NYPost.com