Ex-Bungie Dev’s Creepy Texts To Women Released In Court Case

Sony is firing again in court docket within the ongoing lawsuit between Bungie and former Marathon director Christopher Barrett. The Bungie veteran sued the studio in late 2024 after he was fired over alleged misconduct. He referred to as the investigation a “sham” in his lawsuit. Now Sony has responded and revealed some creepy textual content messages Barrett despatched to feminine workers.

In March 2024 Barrett, Bungie’s govt artistic director on the time, was fired following an inside investigation into claims that he had despatched inappropriate and “disturbing” messages to a number of subordinate feminine workers on the studio behind Future and Halo. Barrett sued in retaliation in December 2024. Within the go well with he referred to as Bungie’s investigation a “sham,” denied committing any fireable offenses, and urged that Sony terminated his job as a part of a ploy to disclaim him greater than $40 million that he in any other case would have been paid because of Sony shopping for Bungie in 2022. Final week, Sony filed its own legal response and shared proof of Barrett’s texts to a number of girls.

As reported by Game File on February 19, Sony’s 128-page court docket submitting contains 9 textual content messages Barrett allegedly despatched feminine workers at Bungie. Sony’s attorneys say that these messages present a “sample of misconduct.” The doc was filed final week, in keeping with Sport File.

In a single message Barrett asks a feminine Bungie worker, “Are you continue to in PJs?” and “[I]s it like a button down prime and bottoms? Sweatpants? Lulu lemons?”

In one other message, Barrett referred to as a lady the “Holy Grail” and added:

I’m not hitting on you. I hope it doesn’t really feel like that. I’m married. However I may be sincere. You’re the .000001 and higher be handled like that endlessly.

The lady replied that her boyfriend treats her “very properly” and the previous Bungie director replied: “He higher cuz I might hit on you if he wasn’t.”

A distinct girl working at Bungie claims Barrett referred to as her whereas drunk late at evening and spent hours along with her on FaceTime, regardless of the feminine worker asking him to respect her boundaries. At one level he allegedly took his telephone into his bed room and stated, “I can’t imagine I’m mendacity in mattress speaking to [VICTIM 1].” She abruptly hung up.

Barrett’s lawyer despatched this assertion over to Sport File:

Sony continues to disingenuously cherry decide textual content messages and alleged conversations and make unsupported and conclusory statements to defame Christopher and justify terminating him to keep away from paying him what he was owed beneath his employment agreements. It’s telling that Sony doesn’t embody the total textual content messages as reveals, or the total content material of those conversations, and nothing in Sony’s response gives a reputable authorized or factual foundation to terminate Christopher for trigger.

“Christopher is assured that when all of the proof is offered, it will likely be clear that Sony engaged in a scheme to strip him of his position and the fairness awards he earned for his 25 years of loyal service to the corporate,” stated Barrett’s lawyer.

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