“Home Alone” star Daniel Stern is off the hook for his charge of soliciting a prostitute.
Stern’s attorney, Blair Berk, appeared on the actor’s behalf Friday as Senior Deputy District Attorney Twyla Atmore informed Judge Paul Baelly the case was being thrown out Friday.
“The case was dismissed with prejudice as it should have been from the start and we’re very pleased,” Berk told the California Post after the hearing.
Atmore said in court that Stern had completed a “diversion program” and that the charges were being dropped.
“The DA moved to dismiss the case in full,” a source told the Post. “This wasn’t a provable case.”
Stern, 68, was cited by police in Camarillo, California, on Dec. 10 during what authorities described as a prostitution sting at a hotel.
He was not arrested or taken into custody at the time, and officers released him at the scene after issuing the citation.
In California, soliciting a prostitute is a misdemeanor and violators can face up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine if convicted.
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The incident occurred just a few days after it was revealed Stern had been commissioned to help decorate the Chicago area home where Home Alone was filmed.
“I got a call from the people who own the ‘Home Alone’ house,” Stern told People during an interview published on Christmas Eve. “And I’m a sculptor, they asked if I would do a sculpture for the house. So I’m creating a sculpture of me and the spider.”
The sculpture will be a callback to the in-home chase where Stern and Joe Pesci attempt to capture Macaulay Culkin’s character Kevin but are continuously stopped by the clever traps the young boy had set up.
Culkin famously places a large tarantula on Stern’s face, who reacts with a “Psycho”-style scream.
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