Home Alone star Daniel Stern, who played one of the burglars in the movie alongside Joe Pesci, has had the prostitution case against him dismissed.
The actor, 68, was issued a citation December 10 and accused of soliciting a prostitute at a hotel in Camarillo, California. He was not arrested over the incident.
A hearing for Stern’s case was scheduled for this Friday, with him possibly facing up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine if convicted.
Before the citation, Stern was hired as a series regular in the upcoming comedy Do You Want Kids? alongside Rachel Bloom and Rory Scovel, but in the wake of the scandal, ABC confirmed to the Daily Mail that his role was being recast.
Now, however, a representative for the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office has confirmed that the misdemeanor charge against Stern has been dropped.
‘The defendant did what he was supposed to do,’ the representative told Entertainment Weekly. ‘He completed his education class and earned a dismissal. This is our standard disposition for first-time prostitution offenses.’
Home Alone star Daniel Stern, who played one of the burglars in the movie alongside Joe Pesci, has had the prostitution charge against him dismissed; pictured 2014
Stern is best known for starring in the first two Home Alone films as Marv Murchins, one of the bumbling burglars alongside Joe Pesci as Harry.
He previously revealed he had to fight to get a raise for the sequel.
When the original 1990 Home Alone movie became a box office hit and a sequel was greenlit, Stern recalled the studios approaching him with an offer of $600,000.
In his 2024 memoir Home and Alone, the actor revealed the offer was double his salary from the first movie, but his co-stars had received multi-million starting offers.
He said he asked Twentieth Century Fox for more money. Joe Pesci, who played his Wet Bandits sidekick, was making around $2 million to $3 million.
Stern’s last television role was in 2023 when he played Eli Hobson in the fourth season of the Apple TV sci-fi series For All Mankind.
He last appeared on the big screen in the 2019 film James vs. His Future Self, directed by Jeremy Lalonde.
The movie starred Jonas Chernick as James, a scientist researching time travel whose life is turned upside down when his older self, played by Stern, arrives from 17 years in the future to demand that he stop.
Stern was famously played Wet Bandit Marv Murchins alongside Joe Pesci’s Harry
In December, Stern revealed he has left Hollywood behind and now lives on a farm and grows tangerines.
Sharing a clip to TikTok, he said: ‘Hello, as you have come to discover, I live on a farm and we grow tangerines here.
‘They came and picked them the other day and I like to have them pick me a bin and then I juice them up, and then I freeze them and give them away to my friends.
‘I just wanted to show you what is it like, here are our tangerines, there is my bucket.’
In another video, which racked up over 1.6 million views, he showcased one of the impressive sculptures he was working on.
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