Lawyers Caught Kissing in Central Park Identified as Firm Colleagues

It started with a smartphone, a bench, and a sudden shout of “Get a room! There are kids around!” The video, posted by TikTok user jayguap3 on Thursday, quickly racked up millions of views, showing two sharply dressed lawyers in the middle of a passionate make‑out session in Central Park.

While the clip itself was enough to set internet comment sections ablaze, viewers didn’t have to wait long to recognize the faces. By cross‑checking the video with headshots on the firm’s website, The Post was able to put names to the smooch‑fest: 45‑year‑old partner Nathaniel D. Cullerton and 29‑year‑old associate Kelsey Borenzweig, both members of the litigation department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Cullerton, a Georgetown‑trained partner, has been at the firm for years and even helped defend OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in the high‑profile lawsuit brought by Elon Musk earlier this year. Borenzweig, a recent NYU Law graduate, joined the firm in 2021 and also worked on that case. In the video they look startled, with Cullerton trying to brush the TikToker away and Borenzweig calmly telling him to “put the phone down.”

The setting was a surprisingly quiet spot just off Central Park West, near West 63rd Street – hardly the kind of place you’d expect a senior partner to be caught in such a compromising situation. Yet the video’s fame exploded, amassing more than two million views within a day, sparking jokes, side‑eye commentary, and even comparisons to last year’s Coldplay concert cheating scandal.

What adds another layer of intrigue is that both lawyers were, according to public records and a Daily Mail report, already involved in other relationships. Cullerton has been married to Moira Penza, a fellow partner at a different Manhattan firm, since 2016. The couple bought a $2.3 million Upper East Side co‑op a few years back. Borenzweig, on the other hand, was recently linked to a 35‑year‑old judicial law clerk; the pair apparently split shortly before the TikTok clip surfaced.

Neither the firm nor the two attorneys responded to requests for comment, and it’s still unclear exactly when the footage was recorded or how long the office romance had been simmering. What is clear, however, is that the episode has given the usually stoic world of high‑stakes litigation a brief, very public dose of reality TV drama.

For now, the viral clip lives on in TikTok feeds, Reddit threads, and the occasional late‑night talk‑show monologue. Whether it will have any lasting impact on the lawyers’ careers or personal lives remains to be seen. One thing’s certain: even the most polished attorneys can’t escape the watchful eyes of a smartphone‑obsessed city.