Photo Credit: SIPA/IMAGN
HOLLYWOOD—(77WABC)
Comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Horatio Sanz is accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old in 2002, according to a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday.
The plaintiff — referred to as Jane Doe — chose not to disclose her identity in the filing because, according to the lawsuit, she was a minor at the time of the alleged non-consensual sexual contact.
In 1999, when she was 14 years old, the alleged victim “started posting on various online websites, message boards and chat rooms about SNL,” the lawsuit says.
In January 2000, Sanz and one of his colleagues emailed the girl, and thereafter Sanz “began his process of grooming Plaintiff,” including an October 2000 in-person meeting after a taping of the show.
SNL alum Horatio Sanz has been accused of sexual assault in a new lawsuit. @annevclark reports https://t.co/ndqQSOa654
— Vulture (@vulture) August 12, 2021
