Exclusive | Canoodling NYC lawyers high-powered boss facing gossip of his own at white-shoe law firm: sources

After a white-shoe lawyer was caught canoodling in Central Park with a junior associate last month, yet more gossip is spilling out about attorneys at his powerhouse firm, The Post has learned.As exclusively reported by The Post on Monday, Nathaniel Cullerton, a 45-year-old partner at Wachtell Lipton, is being forced out of the firm after he was caught in a viral TikTok smooching 29-year-old Kelsey Borenzweig on a park bench.Meanwhile, The Post has learned that Cullerton’s old boss Bill Savitt — the 63-year-old litigator who recently grilled Elon Musk on the witness stand on behalf of OpenAI in a blockbuster California trial — landed in more than one episode that set tongues wagging for years inside the elite law firm.Last month, The Post revealed Savitt’s romantic relationship with fellow Wachtell partner Sarah Eddy, a 50-year-old star litigator who is following him to rival law firm Gibson Dunn as part of a lucrative defection of multiple attorneys from Wachtell that was led by Savitt.Now, The Post has learned that there was also years of chatter at Wachtell about Savitt and another lawyer who is following him to Gibson Dunn – 46-year-old Anitha Reddy — after colleagues witnessed a pair of eyebrow-raising hotel sightings involving the two, sources told The Post.On one occasion in 2018, Reddy – a Stanford-educated attorney then in her late-30s – was seen entering Savitt’s hotel room around dinnertime while the two were on a business trip in California, sources with knowledge of the situation told The Post.During a separate trial in Wilmington, Delaware, Reddy was staying on a different floor from Savitt when several Wachtell associates encountered her late at night getting on an elevator headed toward the floor where Savitt was staying, a former Wachtell lawyer told The Post.The lawyer did not witness the Delaware encounter firsthand, but said colleagues believed Reddy was headed to Savitt’s room.The sightings at the hotels fueled years of chatt...