Woman accusing Horatio Sanz of grooming her as a 15-year-old SNL superfan says "he abused me all over Saturday Night Live"

The Daily Beast

In her lawsuit filed last August in Manhattan Supreme Court, the woman identified as "Jane Doe" says she first met Sanz in 2000 when she was 15 and he was a 31-year-old SNL star. The next year, he summoned her to several after-show parties where he allowed her to drink, touched her inappropriately and told her “to sit on his lap." She alleges he also sexually assaulted her at an SNL after-party. In an interview with The Daily Beast, "Jane Doe" wants to emphasize that her lawsuit was filed against Sanz and NBC. She says she felt dismayed that coverage focused on the lurid details and not the culture surrounding SNL. "The first defendant is NBC," she says, adding: “Horatio certainly is the main character here, but he didn’t abuse me in a vacuum; he abused me all over Saturday Night Live.” When reached for comment, Sanz’s attorney Andrew Brettler referred The Daily Beast to the statement of denial he issued last year on his client’s behalf: “This individual’s claims about Horatio Sanz are categorically false… However often she repeats her ludicrous allegations or tries to rope in other high-profile names to generate media attention, they will always be false. Before filing this lawsuit anonymously, she demanded $7.5 million in exchange for her silence. We, of course, refused and will vigorously contest these totally meritless claims.” An NBC spokesperson says they can't comment on legal matters.