Horatio Sanz accuser: ‘SNL’ cast never stood up for me after sexual assault as teen
nypost.comBurn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood and she slammed the “SNL” cast. “My control top pantyhose did more to keep me safe than any of those people that I idolized,” the accuser said in an excerpt published in the Hollywood Reporter yesterday.Doe claimed in an August 2021 lawsuit that Sanz, 54, groped, groomed and sexually abused her at several of the sketch comedy show’s after parties in the early 2000s when she was merely a teenager.
She also alleged that cast members such as Tina Fey and Will Ferrell watched as the unfortunate scenes unfolded at the bashes.At a 2002 event, she stated in the suit how Sanz touched her inappropriately “in full view of party onlookers, continuing the assault even as she implored him to stop” and that “the entire ‘SNL’ cast watched” and “laughed.”In other legal papers Doe filed in August 2022, she noted that “SNL” alums Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, and show creator Lorne Michaels were “enablers” over the abuse she suffered.
The suit was then settled in November 2022. Doe said that while the cast of “Sex and the City” released a statement saying, “It’s hard for the survivor to come forward and we support the survivor,” following allegations against Chris Noth, the “SNL” cast didn’t have her back in a similar fashion. “None of the people who were at SNL at the time have had one word to say,” Doe added.
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