Hollywood stars charged over child porn
AFP - Two famous Hollywood actors, including a former children's television star, were charged with child sex offences following a one-year child pornography investigation.
Actor Jeffrey Jones, 56, who had a leading role in the 1986 hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was charged with taking sexually explicit photos of a 14-year-old boy and with possessing child pornography.
His friend, movie actor Paul Reubens, 50, who played the whacky children's TV character Pee-wee Herman before he was arrested for indecent exposure in a porn cinema in 1991, was charged with possessing child pornography.
Reubens was expected to surrender to authorities, said Mathew Littman of the Los Angeles prosecutor's office.
Jones, who played the mean-spirited school headmaster in Ferris Bueller, which starred heartthrob Matthew Broderick, surrendered to Los Angeles police on Thursday and has been released on $US20,000 ($A35,574) bail.
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Jones' lawyer Jeff Brodey told the Los Angeles Times his client was cooperating with police and prosecutors and stressed he had not been charged with performing any sexual act linked to the boy.
"This is all about photos. There are no allegations of any touching or any improper acts with a minor," he said. "This will be resolved very quickly so he can get on with his life and get back to work."
Jones has had roles in more than 50 movie and television shows including Ed Wood, Beetlejuice, and the Oscar-winning movie Amadeus, in which he played the Austrian emperor.
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