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SNL’s Horatio Sanz Hit With Lawsuit For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Underage Fan  

Megan Basham
SNL’s Horatio Sanz Hit With Lawsuit For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Underage Fan   
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A Pennsylvania woman has filed a lawsuit against Saturday Night Live alumnus Horatio Sanz for, she says, grooming her beginning at age 15 before sexually assaulting her at age 17 after a 2002 cast party.

Sanz was a member of SNL’s cast from 1998 to 2006 and his accuser ran a fan site at the time. She claims Sanz and co-star Jimmy Fallon first contacted her in January 2000 from their NBC email accounts, at which point Sanz began grooming her by being “flirtatious” and “physically affectionate” with her, “kissing her cheek and putting his hands on her waist.”

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