He chose the same attorney who defended the disgraced director.

The former late night actor wanted someone who was great at defending pedophiles so he chose the same attorney who defended the disgraced director.

Horatio Sanz

Andrew Brettler

Bryan Singer

The Horatio Sanz Lawsuit Is an Explosive Story About SNL, NBC, and Jimmy Fallon

Last week an anonymous woman filed a lawsuit alleging that comedian Horatio Sanz groomed and sexually abused her 20 years ago, when she was 15 to 17 years old and he was a cast member on Saturday Night Live in his early 30s. The allegations against Sanz—apparently corroborated both by contemporaneous emails and by text messages he sent her in 2019 apologizing for his conduct—are nauseating enough, and they are only the tip of the iceberg. The lawsuit also names SNL and NBC as co-defendants and alleges that everyone at the show, including Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels, saw what was happening and did nothing to stop it.

According to the complaint, from 1999 to 2002 the plaintiff ran and participated in fan sites dedicated to SNL and Jimmy Fallon. SNL employees and cast members read these fan sites. I will repeat this: SNL employees and cast members read these fan sites. In January 2000 Sanz and Fallon initiated contact with the plaintiff, then 15, by emailing her from an NBC email address. In October 2000, she and Sanz met after an SNL taping, where he “was flirtatious and physically affectionate with the then 15-year old Plaintiff by kissing her cheek and putting his hands on her waist.” By spring of the next year, when she was 16, she was regularly coming to SNL afterparties, where she drank alcohol in the presence of cast members like Sanz, who was physically affectionate with her in the presence of other cast members and staff. During this period he also allegedly messaged her on AIM, soliciting “revealing photographs,” discussing sexually explicit topics, and telling her not to tell anyone about their communications. Over time, the complaint alleges, these conversations grew increasingly sexual and controlling. The plaintiff suffered shame and depression for which she eventually sought inpatient treatment. – Source

Prince Andrew Hires Armie Hammer’s #MeToo Lawyer

Prince Andrew has enlisted disgraced actor Armie Hammer’s lawyer to fight a recent lawsuit from a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ring. Andrew B. Brettler—a Los Angeles litigator also known for representing SNL star Horatio Sanz and director Bryan Singer amid sexual assault claims—entered an appearance on the Duke of York’s behalf in Manhattan federal court on Monday. Brettler’s representation of the 61-year-old royal comes ahead of a scheduled afternoon conference in the case filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. U.K.-based attorneys for the Duke, who was reportedly hiding out in Scotland, have argued that Giuffre and her attorneys have not properly served him with court papers and lack jurisdiction to do so.

In a complaint filed last month, Giuffre alleges Andrew abused her when she was 17 at the London townhome of Epstein’s accused accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and at Epstein’s homes in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “In this country no person, whether President or Prince, is above the law, and no person, no matter how powerless or vulnerable, can be deprived of the law’s protection,” Giuffre’s lawsuit says. “Twenty years ago Prince Andrew’s wealth, power, position, and connections enabled him to abuse a frightened, vulnerable child with no one there to protect her.” – Source