A new lawsuit claims that Horatio Sanz groomed and sexually assaulted an underage fan at a Saturday Night Live party while castmembers looked the other way.
According to the lawsuit filed Thursday (Aug. 12th) in Manhattan Supreme Court, Sanz took a 17-year-old fan from Pennsylvania for a limo ride and “digitally penetrated her genitals” at an after show party in 2002.
The girl, who ran an SNL fan site, first met Sanz in 2000 – when she was 15 and he was 31 – after he invited her to the taping of the show. According to the filing, he invited her to several parties the following year where he encouraged her to drink, touched her inappropriately and told her “to sit on his lap.” From there, he allegedly kicked of a years-long cyber sex relationship with the teen in which he is accused of calling her disparaging terms such as “slut.”