Horatio Sanz accused of grooming an underage superfan at an SNL party two decades ago

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In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the unnamed woman says she first met Sanz in 2000 when she was 15 and he was 31 after he invited her to a taping of Saturday Night Live. 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,” according to the lawsuit. The woman accuses Sanz of asking her to send him photos of herself and “to perform sexual acts, including masturbation, which he asked her to describe to him" in what would allegedly be a years-long cyber sex relationship with the teen, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that in September 2001, when she was 16, Sanz invited her to an SNL party where she drank beer with Jimmy Fallon and other SNL stars. A rep for Sanz called the allegations “categorically false” and said she’s simply out for money. “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,” said the rep. “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.”