Home AloneStar Devin Ratray Pleads Guilty to Domestic Violence

Mar. 15, 2025

Devin Ratray.Photo:John Lamparski/Getty

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FormerHome Aloneactor Devin Ratray has pleaded guilty totwo domestic violence chargeson Wednesday, reaching a deal that will keep him out of prison.

The actor was ordered to take behavior intervention plan classes, as well as being ordered to undergo drug and alcohol assessment. Ratray was also ordered to have no contact with the woman he pleaded guilty to assaulting.

Ratray first rose to prominence in the early 1990s when he played Buzz McCallister, the older brother to Macaulay Culkin’s character, in the first twoHome Alonemovies. His 2021 arrest came after his girlfriend alleged Ratray had punched her in the face, covered her mouth with his hand and then tried to strangle her.

Devin Ratray.John Parra/Getty Images for STXfilms / Alexander Wang

John Parra/Getty Images for STXfilms / Alexander Wang

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The woman had told police at the time that the pair got into an argument at a bar, according to the outlet. Ratray’s girlfriend then told police that she left him to return to their hotel room and that he followed her back to the hotel, where the woman said he pinned her on the bed and began choking her.

KFOR reported that Oklahoma City Police Detective Joseph Burnett wrote in his report about the altercation that Ratray allegedly threatened the woman: “This is how you die,” he allegedly said as he strangled her. Ratray then stopped strangling her and punched the woman in the face before she ran out of their hotel room, according to the report.

The actor’s domestic violence trial was delayed last month after he was reportedly hospitalized “in critical condition,” according toTMZ. It remains unclear what Ratray was hospitalized for at the time. The outlet reported that Ratray has since been released and returned home.

The domestic violence charges against Ratray also reviveda 2017 rape allegationagainst the actor.

Lisa Smith, the woman who said Ratray allegedly raped her, had first filed a police report against him in 2017. After hearing about Ratray’s domestic violence charge in late 2021, Smith told CNN she reached back out to police to find out why her report was never investigated.

Ratray has not been charged in connection to Smith’s allegations and he denied the accusations in a phone call withCNNat the time, the outlet reported.

source: people.com