Actor Faces New Charges In Ongoing Real-Life Drama

A long-running domestic dispute between actor John Heard and “Homicide” actress Melissa Leo moved Tuesday to a Baltimore courtroom, where prosecutors dropped a stalking charge against Heard but named him in new harassment charges.

Leo, 36, who plays a tough police detective in the NBC television series, alleges in court papers that Heard has been stalking their 9-year-old son, whom she was awarded custody of after a bitter 1994 custody battle.

She and Heard had a three-year relationship in the 1980s, but never married.

Heard, noted for his role as Macaulay Culkin’s father in the “Home Alone” movies, said as he left Baltimore District Court that he is still upset over the custody ruling that awarded Leo their son, John Matthew.

“My concern is that I stay in my son’s life and be with him in some other place besides hotel rooms,” Heard said.

Asked whether he had anything else to say, he replied, “Wish everybody ‘Happy holidays’ for me, especially the parents who won’t be seeing their kids.”

Leo claims in court papers that Heard, 50, has harassed her with phone calls, peeped through the windows of her home and, at one point, parked outside her son’s private school so that he could spy on him with binoculars.

Her live-in boyfriend, ski instructor John Russell, has filed harassment and assault charges against Heard, claiming Heard shoved him Nov. 12 during a confrontation outside the school.

A trial is scheduled for March 19.