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https://www.businessinsider.com/saturday-night-live-sexism-horatio-sanz-lawsuit-2022-5
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>Speaking anonymously to Insider, female staffers recalled a culture at SNL where older
>producers said offensive things -- like asking a young staffer to put Listerine strips
>on her vagina -- without consequences, reports Insider's Katie Warren. The young staffers
>feared reporting to HR would have consequences on their career. Lorne Michaels was known
>for having a roster of young, attractive female assistants nicknamed "the Lornettes,"
>while then-head writer Tina Fey sometimes made jokes that crossed the line. Warren adds:
>"For the young women who worked on the show — the interns and NBC pages who had fought
>for their coveted positions — this environment could be treacherous. Several former
>staffers said male members of the cast and staff would hook up with female college-age
>interns at post-show parties. The young staffer said that when she interned on the 1999-
>2000 season before being hired full time, the cast member Horatio Sanz followed her into
>a bedroom at a party and asked to touch her breasts. Another former intern said that at
>a different party at about this time, a high-profile cast member asked her to sit on his
>lap and licked one of her cheeks.