Woman Alleges Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, and Tracy Morgan Enabled Sexual Assault by Horatio Sanz
An anonymous Jane Doe wants to add the three SNL titans as defendants to her August 2021 lawsuit.
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Three Saturday Night Live titans could be named as enablers in a sexual assault lawsuit against former cast member Horatio Sanz. An anonymous woman, referred to as Jane Doe, asked the court to add Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, and Tracy Morgan as defendants in a suit she first filed in August 2021, Variety reported. NBCUniversal was also named as a defendant in the original suit.
The lawsuit claimed that Sanz sexually assaulted the underage SNL fan and groomed her into an online sexual relationship between 2000 and 2002. She also alleged that Fallon would drink with her and Sanz at the shows’ afterparties, and was aware that she and her friends were only juniors in high school at the time. According to the complaint, Michaels offered her writing and career advice at an afterparty, and Morgan rented out the afterparty space where Sanz allegedly groped her against her will. The plaintiff also claimed that 18 NBCU employees knew of Sanz’s behavior.
NBCU’s lawyers maintained that “employers owe no general duty to protect third-persons from the possibility of sexual abuse by their employees.” In April, the company filed a motion to dismiss the original suit. But in June, Doe hired a new lawyer, Susan Crumiller, who then helped Doe amend the original suit to add Fallon, Michaels, and Morgan as defendants, therefore nullifying NBCU’s dismissal motion.