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Amazon MGM to Edit Timothy Busfield Out of Completed Rom-Com After Child Sex Abuse Charges

He remains jailed in New Mexico pending a detention hearing.

Overview

  • Sources confirm Busfield’s scenes will be removed from You Deserve Each Other, a Penn BadgleyMeghann Fahy film that finished shooting with Busfield playing the bride’s father.
  • Busfield was charged in New Mexico with two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse and turned himself in on Jan. 13 after a warrant was issued.
  • He is being held without bond at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center, with a pretrial detention hearing set for Tuesday.
  • NBC pulled a planned Law & Order: SVU episode featuring Busfield, and his longtime agency Innovative Artists has ended its representation.
  • Prosecutors moved to keep him detained citing a separate allegation involving a 16-year-old at Sacramento’s B Street Theatre, while Busfield denies all accusations in public statements.