“Home Alone” star Daniel Stern was busted for allegedly trying to pick up an escort in the middle of the holiday season.
The alleged horned-up Stern, best known for playing Marv Murchins in the beloved 1990 Christmas film, was given a citation for soliciting a prostitute at a hotel in Camarillo, California, on Dec. 10, TMZ reported.
Stern, 68, was not arrested in the case. In the Golden State, soliciting a prostitute is a misdemeanor and violators can face up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine if convicted.
The broken-up romp fest occurred days before it was revealed that Stern had been commissioned to help decorate the famed home where the movie was filmed in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois.
“I got a call from the people who own the ‘Home Alone’ house,” Stern, 68, 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.
“Which is gonna be kind of crazy,” he said. “So it’ll be at the ‘Home Alone’ house so that spider, whatever his name was, Charlie, is being immortalized in bronze.”
Stern, who has since left Hollywood for a ranch in Ventura, California, to focus on his art, revealed that the sculpture will be his first self-portrait.
“I’ve been looking at myself in my studio, and I’ve made myself a lot handsomer than I actually am in real life,” he shared. “Just why not?”
The actor reprised his role as Marv in the sequel “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” where he rebranded the criminal enterprise with Joe Pesci as the “sticky bandits.”
In October, Stern was rushed to a hospital in Ventura County after suffering a medical emergency but was later released and was “now doing well,” his rep told TMZ.
Stern has not spoken out about the soliciting citation or his hospitalization.
