The Home Alone actor Daniel Stern’s legal issues have escalated after he was criminally charged in response to his arrest last month for allegedly trying to hire a sex worker.
According to court records viewed by the Daily Mail, the 68-year-old actor had a misdemeanor charge for soliciting prostitution filed against him by the Ventura County District Attorney on Monday.
According to the court docket, Stern is scheduled to be arraigned at nine a.m. on Tuesday.
A representative for the District Attorney’s office told TMZÂ that prosecutors don’t expect the actor to appear in person, and instead, his attorney will likely appear in his place.Â
The Daily Mail has reached out to Stern’s representatives for comment.Â
Stern — who’s best known for starring in the first two entries of the beloved Home Alone franchise — was reportedly cited by police for allegedly soliciting prostitution at a hotel in Camarillo, California, the publication previously reported
Home Alone star Daniel Stern, 68, was hit with a criminal charge on Monday after the Ventura County District Attorney filed a misdemeanor charge for allegedly soliciting prostitution against him; pictured in January 2020 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Stern, who has had a drastic career change after ditching Hollywood, did not have to take a mugshot, as he wasn’t booked but was simply given a ticket.
Stern famously played Marv Murchins, one of the bumbling burglars in the hit holiday films Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) alongside a young Macaulay Culkin.Â
The news comes after Stern’s hospitalization last October, after he suffered a medical emergency.
Stern was rushed to the emergency room on October 7, per TMZ.
The Ventura County Fire Department confirmed they responded to a residence in Somis, California, for a medical emergency.
It is unclear what the medical issue was.
Stern was assessed by firefighters and taken to the hospital before being released, with his representative confirming he is in good health.
In December, Stern revealed he has left Hollywood behind and now lives on a farm and grows tangerines.
Stern was previously was issued a citation for allegedly trying to hire an escort. He didn’t have to take a mugshot, as he wasn’t booked but simply given a ticket; Pictured in 2014Â
The actor — known for starring in the beloved Christmas franchise — was reportedly soliciting prostitution on December 10, at a hotel in Camarillo, California, according to TMZ; Pictured (L) in a Home Alone still with Joe Pesci
Despite being a recognizable star of multiple Hollywood blockbusters, he now works as a cattle rancher, grows tangerines and works as a sculptor.
Stern previously revealed he had to fight to get a raise for the Home Alone sequel.
When the original 1990 Home Alone movie became a box office hit and a sequel was immediately greenlit, Stern previously recalled the studios approaching him with an offer of $600,000.
In his 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 because Joe Pesci, who played his Wet Bandits sidekick Harry, was making around $2 to $3 million.
He also wrote in his book that leading star Macaulay Culkin, now 43, got a sequel deal for $5 million plus 5 percent of the gross box office earnings.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York premiered in November 1992, two years after the first movie — which was almost canned before production even began — was released.
Initially, Stern recalled producers taking six months just to make him the offer of $600,000, which he added was ‘double my original salary, but not quite the pot of gold I was hoping for.’
It comes after Stern’s hospitalization last October. He was hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency, though it’s unclear what it was; Seen in an Instagram snapÂ
Stern famously played Marv Murchins, one of the bumbling burglars in the hit holiday films Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992; pictured) alongside Joe Pesci (L) and a young Macaulay Culkin (center)
He said he asked for more but decided to continue negotiating with the studios when he learned his co-star would be making more than quadruple his salary.
‘I asked if that was the same as Joe [Pesci] was getting, and they said it was not,’ he said.
Stern explained the studio eventually came back to him with an offer of $800,000 but by that point, he had learned that Pesci was ‘getting somewhere between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 plus gross percentage of the profits.’
Wanting to get paid at least half of what his co-star was making, he did not accept the six-digit number.
When his agent advised him against it and to just take the offer, Stern said he fired him.
Looking back, Stern said it was a ‘prideful thing to do,’ but said that if that was the best his agent could do for him, ‘then he wasn’t very good at his job.’
He told the Los Angeles Times that he agreed in the end because ‘there’s lots of things I get out of the movies besides money.’Â
