In 2021, the woman said Sanz, a former “SNL” cast member, began treating her when she was around 14 and sexually assaulted her when she was 17, according to court documents.
Sanz denied the allegations.
In the amended proposed lawsuit filed Tuesday, the woman says Fallon was “aware of Sanz’s online grooming efforts as he was of his in-person conduct.” The documents also claim that NBC, Morgan, Fallon and Michaels “enabled Sanz’s crimes of sexual assault and battery” by “providing the physical space in which Sanz assaulted Doe and repeatedly ignoring and even encouraging Doe’s minor presence at SNL after-parties and after-after-parties.”
The proposed new complaint follows New York City’s recently amended Gender-Based Violence Act (GMVA). The GMVA includes a one-year “look-back window,” allowing accusers to sue their alleged abusers and those accused of enabling the conduct, beginning next March.
According to the law, violation “means a crime of violence committed because of sex or on the basis of sex, and caused, at least in part, by animosity based on the sex of the victim”.
In a brief in support of its proposed amendment, it explains: “Although Doe’s claims are currently barred by the statute of limitations, on March 1, 2023 (and until March 1, 2024), the claims of the plaintiff will not be barred, and she will be entitled to sue under the GMVA against all proposed defendants due to the look-back window in the amended GMVA.” She asks the court to grant her request for amending its complaint to add the GMVA claims now in the interest of judicial economy.
An NBC spokesperson told CNN in an email: “Regardless of Jane Doe’s changing narratives, NBC intends to renew its motion to dismiss.”
NBCUniversal filed a motion to dismiss in April, arguing that “the complaint does not state the facts showing that in 2002 NBCU was aware of Sanz’s alleged predatory behavior or any propensity he had for aggression. sex,” and noting that “Plaintiff does not allege that she, or anyone else, informed NBCU nineteen years ago of the facts she alleges in her complaint today. ”
NBCU also argued that it failed to sufficiently allege a “causal connection between NBCU’s alleged dereliction of duty and Sanz’s alleged sexual assault at a co-worker’s party at an off-site venue.” .
Sanz filed a response in April to the original complaint, denying the allegations. His case also alleges numerous defenses to Doe’s claims, including that his claims are not timely filed and that to the extent he engaged in any of the alleged conduct, Jane Doe consented to the alleged actions. .
CNN has reached out to “SNL” reps Fallon, Morgan, Michaels and Sanz for comment.
In the proposed new complaint, Jane Doe says she texted Sanz in 2019 and “he claimed to have said he felt ‘awful’ about ‘what he had done.
“However, he avoided taking full responsibility, saying, ‘…I’m getting closer and closer. I was a weak man. “,” the suit said.
The lawsuit seeks monetary relief for legal fees as well as compensatory and punitive damages.