‘Home Alone’ Actor Receives Citation For Allegedly Trying To Hire Escort

‘Home Alone’ actor Daniel Stern is in hot water after he was criminally charged for allegedly soliciting prostitution.

According to the Daily Mail, the Ventura County District Attorney filed a misdemeanor charge against the 68-year-old.

“Stern is scheduled to be arraigned at nine a.m. on Tuesday,” the outlet stated.

Stern was allegedly cited at a hotel in Camarillo, California.

Sounds like Daniel Stern didn’t want to be home alone … because cops issued him a citation for allegedly trying to hire an escort.

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Daniel’s had a few notable incidents in Ventura County — about an hour northwest of Los Angeles — in recent months … as we first reported, he was rushed to the hospital back in October after the Ventura County Fire Department responded to a residence in Somis for a medical emergency.

If the solicitation allegation is true, seems Daniel was trying to take the Wet and Sticky Bandit thing too far.

We reached out to Daniel’s camp … so far, no word back.

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Stern did not have a mugshot taken.

He was issued a ticket instead of being booked.

Prosecutors expect Stern’s attorney to appear in his place inside the courtroom.

Daily Mail shared further info:

In December, Stern revealed he has left Hollywood behind and now lives on a farm and grows tangerines.

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.

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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.’