Actor Daniel Stern, best known for his role as one of the villains in the Home Alone movie franchise, was charged in California with one misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution this week.
'Home Alone' Star Daniel Stern Cited for Soliciting Prostitution https://t.co/ab6SNIQx6j pic.twitter.com/jf9MFBCmFo
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Ventura County District Attorney spokesperson Joey Buttitta told media outlets that Stern was reportedly cited at a motel in Camarillo, CA in December, but not charged until this week.
“From what I understand, he was cited at the location and released,” Buttitta said.
Buttitta later confirmed that Stern was charged on Jan. 12 and his arraignment was scheduled for today.
“The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office submitted their ticket or citation to us and it is being reviewed by our prosecutors,” Buttitta said.
Stern, who played “Wet Bandit” Marv in the beloved 1990 Christmas classic Home Alone, has been out of Hollywood for sometime, and is now a sculptor and farmer living on a ranch in California, according to People Magazine.
Stern left the Hollywood life behind many years ago, and moved to a farm in Ventura where he and his wife tend to cattle and citrus trees and grow produce.
Stern said his successes in the ’80s and ’90s made him “enough money that I didn’t have to work,” and instilled “an obligation to take advantage of my good fortune.”
He told People in an exclusive interview in December that he was commissioned by the family that purchased the Illinois house featured in the movie to make a replica of himself and the tarantula that was placed on his face during an iconic scene with Macaulay Culkin’s character Kevin.
Stern said the artwork will be the first self-portrait he’s ever created. “I’ve been looking at myself in my studio and I’ve made myself a lot handsomer than I actually am in real life — just why not?,” he joked.
Reps for Stern have not commented at the time of publication.