 Lenz's father, Frederick Lenz Jr., worked as a marketing executive and later went on to become the mayor of Stamford from 1973 to 1975.His mother, Dorothy Lenz, was a housewife and a student of astrology.After high school, he spent a short period of incarceration in a work camp near San Diego for possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor offense which was later removed from the court records by way of a dismissal.