Nathaniel Cullerton Did Not Think This Through
In womp-womp news, Nathaniel Cullerton was caught canoodling with an underling and had a lucrative job offer rescinded. I guess f*cking the help is a bad look to HR. The Friday Challenge is Womp-Womp Moments of Cheater Stupidity.
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Dear Chump Lady,
Can you please do a story about Nathaniel Cullerton, a partner at a BIG New York City law firm who was filmed ‘canoodling’ (as the NY Post called it) with an underling? (She is 29, he is 45.) Someone came by, told them ‘get a room!’ and filmed them, then posted it. After it got ten bazillion views, he was suspended from his firm.
Two points:
One, he is married.
And his wife of 11 years is a high-powered DIVORCE LAWYER who froze their accounts the same day, then filed for divorce the same day (all according to the NY Post).
Second, I think it’s obvious that these two canoodlers did not hear of the Coldplay fiasco. I think I would call this fiasco “Jumbotrob Redux’.
Lulutoo
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Dear Lulutoo,
Okay, snarking about Nathaniel Cullerton is today’s topic. If the rest of Chump Nation was looking for a Friday Challenge, you could tell me about your cheater’s womp-womp moment of stupidity.
There are so many, Tracy.
I know, but really cheating on your DIVORCE LAWYER wife is epically stupid. Cheating with a subordinate when you KNOW THE LAW about the illegality of creating a sexualized work environment is also epically stupid. Cheating with a subordinate when you’re about to switch jobs to a new law firm and should probably be on your best professional behavior is staggeringly gonzo stupid.
How much does this guy charge an hour? People take advice from him for realz?
The New York Post reports:
Hotshot attorney Nathaniel Cullerton, 45, likely makes at least $4 million as a partner at the white shoe law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the sources said.
He was placed on leave amid an investigation into the viral canoodling clip, sources said.
Thank you #JayGuap3 for bringing this wandering dick to the attention of Nathaniel Cullerton’s chumped wife and his employer.
I’m sure there are some who would call this a witch hunt and an unfair public shaming. These people have never had an irregular Pap smear after years of presumed monogamy. Or paternity tested their children.
Do not judge the judgers.
Ask what kind of flaming entitlement do you have to possess to make out on a public park bench with your subordinate? I imagine other members of their law firm stroll through Central Park. Perhaps even HIS WIFE? It’s okay to want to see this FWs taken down a few pegs.
A few million’s worth of pegs.
So, CN — can you match this womp-womp moment of stupidity?
TGIF!
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Two thoughts:
1) the duper’s delight stakes are higher if you can lie to and trick an actual divorce lawyer. He’s not stupid, he’s a risk-taker;
2) we need to teach young women not to be sucked in by these guys!
Agree. Though she may not have been sucked in, she may have known exactly what she was doing.
The chutzpah with which cheaters cheat and get bolder and bolder…that red nose in the video said it all! Gross
uh oh double womp-womp: https://nypost.com/2026/07/30/us-news/bosses-of-canoodling-central-park-lawyers-were-in-sexual-relationship-and-one-just-got-a-100m-pay-package-sources/
(They were working “pro-boner” and “getting in each others briefs” — chef’s kiss. The kind of writing that made the old NY Post great.) Also, the sums these people are being paid are gross.
I just read the article after I commented down below. OMG, the writing is sensational! Every time I went to NYC I daily picked up a copy of the NY Post and giggled my way through. Page Six is always epic. Fun it’s on the Internet for a good laugh now.
Nathaniel’s wife is a superstar. She put that creep Keith Raniere into the hoosegow for 120 years. If you don’t know the story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Raniere
Those type of attorneys don’t make enough in my book.
Wow. He’s extra, extra loathsome to cheat on her, doing the Lord’s work.
Agreed.
I am beginning to wonder if fidelity is a thing of the past. I think that there is a real change sweeping the nation. You have adult males who are into liquid adulting, which is they will grow up when they feel like it, which in most cases is never. So all of the young woman are left either with married men who are established and financially secure as a great option rather than waiting around for someone their own age to grow up. So they look around the office, bars, etc. and go for a guy that can offer them a future instead of sitting waiting for their own generation to grow up. There are plenty of mid-life crisis men willing to take the risk to grab something young. It’s a win win. How this problem will ever right itself is another thing, it may never.
Hmm. I don’t think that young women are “looking around the office” for mid-life crisis men who can “offer them a future.” (Does that mean financial stability and kids?) I think they are happily building their own futures. I think they are no longer equating “future” with “relationship.”
At least that’s what I did. (I was young when I split from cheater.) I never — not ever — looked to a married man as a great option and certainly not as my only option for a good life. Granted, I didn’t have kids, which a lot of people want, but I have a fantastic life.
Not sure if men aren’t growing up — I do think p*rn isn’t helping the culture — but that definitely doesn’t leave women with bad options.
It’s the degrading onlyfans culture and I despair of young women subscribing to it. A rich middle aged lawyer is a lottery ticket to these types of hohos and they have zero empathy for the kids, wife, anyone else. They don’t want to work hard they want the spoils of someone else’s life.
Zero empathy and narcissistic behavior are on the rise.
Again, I don’t think this is new. When I was younger, people (especially men) frequently made nudge-nudge/wink-wink jokes about exactly (!!!) this type of behavior. Some men my age or older still do it. Some would openly brag about the “hot” secretaries they hired etc.
I guess they would simply consider him “successful” because he seemed to be able to get away with it (until this point).
In my view, people don’t have become more immoral. If anything, we (especially us women) have become more willing to call this out.
Don’t overlook Frank Hopkins who abandoned his wife and TEN children during the Great Depression, slandered and libeled Lady Anne Blunt, made up a non-existent long distance horse race and also maligned many other famous people of the day.
Being an entitled and gifted liar, who also cheats on and abandons responsibilities, is not new.
Not with the frequency and access to young women in the workforce which was non-existent 100 years ago. The young women are out there and the old guys in power “think Dan Broderick” are ripe for the picking, think Betty Broderick. It is common today it was sensational news years ago. The Blue Pill has changed everything, if they can get it up they are looking for young. Young women only have to put in 10 years with some old coot and they have it made and they are catching on to a good thing. The men being led by their bits and pieces don’t care they are going for it and aren’t worried about what they will lose in the process.
I agree, of course I know you don’t mean all women. Young women who have not been coerced need to be held accountable if they broke company policy. They hurt the women who are building their lives ethically.
Also, this guy doesn’t fall into the old creeper category. Creep yes, but they are getting younger and younger. There isn’t that big of an age difference. She isn’t a spring chicken either.
I agree, of course I know you don’t mean all women. Young women who have not been coerced need to be held accountable if they broke company policy. They hurt the women who are building their lives ethically.
Also, this guy doesn’t fall into the old creeper category. Creep yes, but they are getting younger and younger. There isn’t that big of an age difference. She isn’t a spring chicken either.
I say this with 🧡 — I think this is a tad off. It has not been my experience that young women are looking to put in 10 years to score big financially and do nothing. Some? — I guess. But I know scores and scores of young, thoughtful, feminist women who believe in themselves.
I believe it was worse in the past when women had to surmount even higher obstacles to get any job, especially in the office, but also in professions like nursing. This is how clichés like the secretary who had to sleep with her boss just to get the job or keep it came about (nowadays we would call that s*xual harassment, and with good reason).
In my experience, nowadays it’s usually just a small minority of women in the workplace who would be willing to engage in this (often those who are either under-qualified for the job or have other issues that would normally prevent them from getting hired). However, sadly, many FW would make sure to hire exactly those women. This is why s*xual favoritism as such is the root of the issue (and the FW’s actions and choices!), not women in general.
30 years ago, many married men openly bragged about the “hot” secretaries they hired. And when they left their wife for said secretary, that was often viewed as a marker of success. At the same time, as a woman with a career I hate the suggestion that women in the workplace are somehow the issue and the cause of all turmoil. My career was severely derailed twice due to getting bullied by workplace schmoopies. Only the (male!) FWs and the schmoopies were to blame for that, not me (just because I’m a woman too). Not all of us are willing perpetrators.
I agree with you about the little blue pill. And I think women in the workforce are a factor but not a necessary factor, because decades ago women were just as prevalent elsewhere in society, be it at the supermarket, a college campus, a country club, a neighborhood. FWs gotta FW, so they will seek out what they want wherever it might be. Although, yes, the workplace provides easy access which might tip the scales for the less motivated FWs. I said to my FW “If she weren’t standing right next to you all day this never would have happened” and he replied “You’re probably right.”
Any suggestion that the world would better off with no women in the workplace because it would “save marriages” somehow scares me. In the end, this would render chumps even more financially dependent on their FW, who (of course) would still find ways to cheat, especially when many single women would be desperate for money.
However, I am absolutely in favor of taking strong action against any sexual favoritism in the workplace. After all, that is the real problem (deliberate actions taken by male FW), not the mere presence of women.
I saw a thing online where a woman said the world would be better off without men.
One male commenter said, ”Oh yeah, and who would protect you?”
“From whom?” was her answer.
Just to be clear I am in no way suggesting that women should not be in the workplace – I’m not sure that’s what you meant but just wanted to make sure there is no misunderstanding.
Don’t worry, I agreed with your last comment! However, I was worried about some other comments in this thread. I think it’s necessary to point out that those problems are being caused by (usually male) FWs and a few willing schmoopies, not by women in general. Also, this type of favoritism tends to create a lot of chaos in the workplace, another good reason to take action against any FWs who use the office as their “hunting ground”.
Nah. There have always been spectacularly horrible potential partners.
There was a married man with five kids whose wife got tuberculosis. His very elderly mom took in the 13 and 11 year old daughters but couldn’t care for an ill woman and her three preschoolers. His wife and 4, 3, and 2 year old children were confined at the county poor farm. The three kids were given to other families to raise; the mom died a year later. Meanwhile, Daddy Dearest ran off to California and remarried before his wife died. He showed up again once his 4 year old son was an adult. The kid got him a menial job in the business he owned but didn’t let him move in … This was 1888-1900.
My great-grandfather was legit worse. He left his seven young children with his elderly mother on a poverty stricken farm when he was widowed and disappeared for years during the great depression. The only reason the kids didn’t end up at the Poor Farm was my great-great grandma’s iron will – and the financial support of two of her grown step-daughters who worked in Chicago and brought home clothes, shoes, bulk goods and produce for the kids. What makes him worse was his habit of SA his grandchildren when he reappeared in the 1940’s.
The difference is that women aren’t required to be married to have access to money, housing, or legal custody of children. We can afford -literally- to find better quality men because being single is an option.
Thank God for that.
Perhaps it’s my algorithim these days. Or my recent experience (at some point over the last 35 years, my FW lost his mind). Also, I have a young-adult daughter who is dating (and one young man she met was a dedicated Andrew Tate follower), also a young-adult son who says it’s terrifying to be male these days, you don’t want to be misconstrued as a creep.
Apologied to male chumps, I know it’s not all men, but there is something badly wrong with so many men, young and old, these days. What’s going on?
Consent and compliance are fairly new to the mating game. I was raised in the sixties, and I heard advice being given to my older cousins about dating – some good, some bad. But the general attitude was that you had to be nice, polite, sweet, and don’t tick off the men and boys. These days a woman does not have to put up with any BS and is not expected to be nice and polite to a man who creeps her out. That being said I have been witness to young women these days who turn really nasty on men/boys who are trying to make a respectful inquiry as to interest and availability (keyword “respectful”). From my perspective both men and women need to learn some social skills. It’s the creepy men and the knee-jerk women who are making it hard on everyone.
Meta has its hands in sooo many things. FB, IG, AI… FB was 1/2 started by lame frat bros that created an algorithm to rank the sexual appeal of women on campus (smash or pass). That was the mindset that launched 1,000 ships to create the hellscape that is social media today. Bot farms and AI content that get $$ for clicks that fuel fears and insecurities.
That leaves no one of value for those of us who got cheated on after 20-30-40 yrs of marriage. We were loyal, faithful, loving, and discarded. It’s a lose-lose.
It’s not a lose-lose, y’all! We have our health! Our precious freedom! We did what many thousands of people don’t have the guts to do — which is LACGAL! We still have our loyalty, our faithfulness, our loving values!
I’m not being polly-anna here. We are one thousand percent on the better side, really.
Case in point: STBX wife of Nate Cullerton here is is no way shape or form a loser! She will likely take him to the cleaners, go on to win more law cases, and probably have relaxing vacations in the Maldives without this jackhole in tow. 🎉 Even if the relaxing vacation is in my backyard, it’s still better without a cheater in it.
There are few of value left…we woman must support each other through the rest of our years. I’m fine with that
The young and single men are Peter Pans, so go after a confirmed cheater instead? Well, that’s a strategy. Might not work out the way they’re hoping, though.
TBH, I’m Gen X and while I was young, I spent a lot of time in the media industry. The amount of sexual favoritism happening around me was shocking (committed by married men of all ages). This isn’t new. Not at all. People just used to normalize it even more than they do today.
It’s obviously not the biggest issue here, but why do very wealthy men like him need to prey on their own underlings? Theoretically, their money could probably buy them enough “love” outside their workplace. But I guess they enjoy the power trip (and the ensuing chaos that’s common in s*xualized workplaces).
I wonder what their coworkers thought about this, and whether she turned into a workplace bully, too (like the two workplace schmoopies who forced me to change careers twice).
It is the living worst to be working with a FW and an AP. The privileges extended to the AP are galling, and HR and other execs turn a blind eye. I had no recourse, and my career got totally derailed — all so that FW and AP could giggle and rake in the money. This was between three or four different “couples” in my company.
Well, I did have one recourse — to LEAVE for en entrepreneurial career. No more corporate b.s. for me.
Let me add that once you are entitled and taste the fruits of numerous woman everywhere begging for you..apparently..you get bold and will take woman whenever and wherever. Free to roam. It’s just like picking apples 🍎..no discretion
Proximity. He might put in a lot of effort to make a lot of money, but entitled creeps like him don’t want to put in a lot of effort for strange if they don’t have to.
Oh, I dunno. When Cold Slab O’Meat and the Sluteus made a baby on company time, their employer threw them a baby shower. If i had slowed the divorce from warp speed he would have still been married at the time of the baby’s conception and birth.
Sometimes there are bo consequences and the chump just has to start over from rubble.
Wow
I am grateful that I never had to see video evidence of FW’s affair; I think it might have made me vomit.
She didn’t skip a beat, though. What a baddie.
SparkleDick thought he was oh-so-clever to take the Schmoopie to this scuzzy sports bar less than a mile from our home. He was right that I wouldn’t have been caught dead in a place like that, but my private investigator had no qualms filming them feeding each other mozzarella sticks and chicken fingers (It’s What’s For Dinner), making out and feeling one another up. In. Public.
Ew.
As for the subject of this nitwit, Nathaniel Cullerton having PDAs in Central Park. Nate (may I call you Nate?), are you dumb? I realize NYC has a population of 8 million people or so, but did you really think no one would know who you are? According to your CV on your company’s website:
“Education
Western Connecticut State University, B.A. 2009, summa cum laude
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 2013, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif (Executive Articles Editor, The Georgetown Law Journal)”
Um, you don’t graduate summa, magna AND Order of the Coif from East coast universities and be dumb. Hell, I can walk down Fifth Avenue at lunchtime and run into someone I know. And I don’t even live in NYC. It happens every time I visit.
What a prick.
He and SparkleDick should hang together and trade war stories on what bi+ches their ex-wives are.
Ruins mozzarella stick and chicken fingers for me forever@!
I’m sorry. Get the fried pickles and Texas Twinkies instead and think of Chump Nation!
Haaa..lots of other items on the menu!!!
Good for you for getting a PI. More people should, in my opinion.
Best money I ever spent to be FW free!
My PI was the nicest guy ever. And a damn good PI (retired Secret Service dude.) Sadly, he recently passed away. I went to his funeral and wondered how many of the mourners there were his clients. I didn’t ask of course, but I wondered.
Mine happened to be awesome too, treated me like a daughter. He said that in the 35 yrs he’d been doing this, he had never met such a horrible serial hub poacher. She was dangerous and violent. He had proof. PI said he could actually feel sorry for my now ex because he got tricked by a pro but that I needed to take action to protect myself immediately. And I did.
I didn’t want to know anything more about SparkleDick’s love thang. I knew enough. But my non-Switzerland friends have kept me informed of all the ghastlyness that is them. Because it’s such a shi+show. Schadenfreude? Yes, I partake. My particular favorites are the Schmoopie mug shots. DUIs and assault charges. Nice. I don’t drive when I’ve been drinking and I certainly don’t assault people. My gal pals don’t give me details because they know I don’t care. But I do laugh. And breathe a sigh of relief.
They aren’t dumb; they feel entitled. That’s all it is. And the entitlement makes them think they have superpowers. Bet you a lot this guy was lying to the chump spouse for some time and getting off on it. The more they get away with, the bolder they become.
The spouse is brilliant. She has seen it all before. Good for her!!!
I wish this particular divorce proceeding would be televised. Because this will not be settled out of court because she’s a divorce attorney and he is a litigator at an elite law firm. He’s going to argue that the video isn’t what we saw, he’s misunderstood and his wife is a harridan.
There used to be a TV program called “Divorce Court” back in the day. They should bring it back just for cheaters. The ratings would be stellar! Chump Lady could be a War Correspondent.
My narcsociopath ex had a torrid affair with a coworker subordinate husband poacher even though he knew better, too, although he wasn’t an attorney. I don’t know how many other employees knew, but I bet it was a lot as they weren’t too circumspect about their couplings.If I had reported it to the company (I had proof) he would have lost his job, probably his career, but my attorney at the time suggested it was not the best move for me financially. I did not out him and kinda sorta regret it. I don’t know if there’s a statute of limitations but maybe one day I will do something.
How’s this for epically stupid?
FW was found out. FW went to stay with his father. FW told daughter he wasn’t seeing “those women” aka strippers anymore, also that he felt lonely at Dad’s house so he was going to go stay at a hotel, cuz if you’re not fooling around with strippers , staying alone in a hotel room is less lonely?
Pending charges started showing up on our credit card. From the most expensive hotel in our city.
I called. “What are these charges?” I asked. FW was indeed staying at this hotel. “Oh, are you INSERT STRIPPER NAME?” asked the hotel employee. “Where’d you get that name?” “Oh! I can’t say,” said the stricken hotel employee.
My attorney had a subpoena to the hotel for all documents and video pertaining to FW that afternoon, and the hotel was only too happy to comply (thinking they don’t want sex work being done at their hotel). Unfortunately, FW’s attorney quashed it and had FW admit that INSERT STRIPPER’S NAME came for dinner and did get a mani-pedi at the spa but did not stay over, as if that’s at all believable.
And he continues to lie.
Was told this by my cheater sister..”.oh don’t worry.. you’ll find another guy ..plenty of men are looking at their wives after 20 or 30 years, and comparing them to new fresh blood. Keep yourself cute and you can nab one of them. “
Obviously the underling here in the video thinks that. IMHO the OW is not even cute she’s literally a plain Jane even though she is dolled up for a very image conscious job. In NYC there are many more attractive women. All she’s got is she’s younger and she’s new p**sy.
Video also shows that OW aren’t gorgeous models with super powers (sometimes as chumps we might fall into this depressing line of thinking), they’re just scuzzy mate poachers.
She’s just close by and sitting still. That’s all you need to be
Mrs. Bendover was a tad stupider than Dr. D. Lusional. Her husband called her one night around midnight as the two lovebirds were driving back to the office from their tryst at a hotel. She was so late coming home, is everything okay? Mrs. Bendover told him that she was still at work sanitizing operatories, because Covid (this was 2020). The problem with that particular lie was that Mr. Bendover had called on FaceTime and she answered the call from the passenger seat of FWs car, with the car headrest behind her and the streetlights flashing by. Idk know if poor Mr. Bendover ever questioned that lie because he stayed with her for several more months afterward.
When FW told me this story (he delighted in telling me everything he was up to because apparently I was his “best friend”) he laughed at Mr. Bendover, calling him stupid to believe his wife. Maybe so, but FW was stupider for boning Mr. Bendover’s wife.
The cheater’s wife seems like a rock star. Successfully led a major news-headline prosecution and looks gorgeous. I hope she will recognize this FW unmasking as the godsend that it is and will find CN and others who won’t try to persuade her otherwise.
This is an old tale from my life, at least 17 years behind me. It still makes me laugh it’s so stupid.
I learned about my first boyfriend in college had cheated on me with at least one woman. So I had been in no contact with him for a good 7 months, was in a new relationship. Met a classmate of my new boyfriend, and while we were chatting, she dropped a name…the name of my ex. She said she hated him. I asked why. She said “He cheated on me.”
I told her verrry interesting…he cheated on ME. So we started swapping stories. Turned out not only had he cheated on both of us, he cheated on me with her, on her with her friend, on her friend with two people. I didn’t know about her, she didn’t know about me. So we joined forces. She showed me REEEECEIPTS. Including a photo of him in a purple dress.
A couple weeks later he’s at the birthday party of a mutual friend. I knew he’d be there and it was on a big ranch property so I had no intention of speaking to him. But of course he comes looking for me and says “I dont want anything bad between us.” I told him I knew about all the others and listed all their names. He paused for a moment and said “I don’t know who -name of my new friend- is.”
I told him “I named four people just now. Might want to cover all your bases if you’re gonna lie.”
A couple weeks later, my new friend calls me and tells me she ran into our ex at the grocery store and he followed her around, yelling and screaming at her for telling me about “their thing.” She told him “Our thing? You were cheating on both of us with the whole town.” Apparently he was making such a scene the manager came out to see if there was a problem. She said “No, this man and his boyfriend have confused me with someone else.” Her saying that pissed him off so much he stormed out of the store.
Womp-wooooomp!
my fw was shtumping his direct report for who knows how long. He got an ethics violation filed against him. I don’t know what took them so long. wish they had done it sooner. but to be fair, I don’t know how long it was going on.
The look on Nathaniel’s face at the end of the video appears to show that he was grasping (by the millisecond) how bad his situation really was.
My Cheater was more mean than stupid, but his OW made a serious error in judgement. My Cheater was a military officer tasked with the development and purchase of specialty items for the military. His OW was a sales person tasked to seal the deal of the large military contract for her employer. Her having sex with him might look like a “honeypot” scandal, so as soon as her (schmoopiesque) work email were read by her employer, she was fired.
He, of course, felt bad that he had gotten his new gf fired, so he used the influence and goodwill (that he had been cultivating for HIS upcoming civilian career) to get his gf a new job. It resulted in him not being able to apply for a job with her new company that would have paid him about $300,000/yr. (That was 21 years ago, so it sounded like a zillion dollars to me).
He did get a job paying about $125,000 (which still sounded like a lot to me then) but it wasnt enough to swing 2 families. I never did get the story of why they broke up and he came home for wreckonsillyation …Im sure it wasnt because he loved me (I was a fool to take him back) but I think OW did the math.
Three cheers for the person who filmed and posted this! Yahoo!! One more cheater outed. The old adage still holds true….do not do anything in public, anywhere, that you don’t want on the big screen in Times Square ( now, online). My ex FW also cheated in public with numerous betrayal objects. Never thought anyone woul ever see or know. Hiw wrong he was. What you do in public park or a public street is just that, public. Many bars and restaurants have cameras. Most hotel lobbies, elevators, and hallways, too. This guy will get taken to the cleaners. Yay!!
OW in the video has such an empty-headed smile on her face the whole time like she thinks it’s a joke. Then she tries to get the cameraman to turn off his cam because she has to, you know, protect her 43 year old daddy.
I’m sure those she works with are impressed with her empty head and daddy-issues. /s