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No, he was caught jerking off in a porn theater and charged with public indecency. In my opinion the whole thing was blown out of proportion and a stain on his legacy that doesn't deserve to be there. People just hear "sex crimes" and "children's performer" and come to that assumption. (No shade to you, its a fair assumption. I more have a problem with how the media handled it at the time)
He was also busted with CSAM.
https://www.today.com/popculture/paul-reubens-pleads-guilty-obscenity-charge-wbna4563512
Paul Reubens pleads guilty to obscenity charge
Prosecutors drop child pornography charge in plea deal
“Pee-wee Herman” actor Paul Reubens was sentenced to three years probation Friday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge involving photographs seized from his erotica collection.
The former star of the “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” children’s TV show and two “Pee-wee” movies won’t be allowed unsupervised contact with minors during the probation period.
Under terms of a plea agreement that Superior Court Judge Carol H. Rehm approved, Reubens also agreed to pay a $100 fine and enter a counseling program for one year.
Prosecutors dismissed a misdemeanor charge of child pornography that had carried a maximum sentence of a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
However, the 51-year-old Reubens agreed to register as a sex offender for the duration of his probation.
“We view both of these counts equally in terms of serious nature of child pornography,” said Eric Moses, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office.
The charge resulted from a search of Reubens’ home in November 2001. Police seized about 30,000 images from his photography collection and personal computers.
Reubens, who didn’t appear in court Friday, pleaded guilty through his attorney to possession of obscene materials with the intent to distribute, and in a Thursday court hearing he acknowledged possessing 170 images of minors engaged in sexual conduct, Moses said.
You should probably continue on with the quotes a bit longer.
“That mischaracterizes the art collection seized,” Reubens’ lawyer, Blair Berk said Friday. “If that means a black-and-white tintype from 1901 with a young man of indeterminate, 17- to 19-year-old age, laying on the beach after having gone skinny-dipping ... then they got it.”
“It was clear from the start that we, along with the many distinguished art experts supporting Paul’s art photography collection, vehemently disagreed with the city prosecutor’s view of what constitutes art,” Berk said.
From the same article you linked.
I don't care about the wanking, but the CP possession charge is hard to ignore.
It's easy to ignore when it was dropped. Charges are not convictions.
IIRC he never claimed to not own CP; He was charged and there was legitimate evidence of dozens of CP materials. His legal defense was that he buys bulk lots of kisch art and wasn't aware the offending material was in there. He would later in 2004 (after charges were dropped in exchange for a obscenity charge) claim that he was aware of the CP; but he only owned it for as he also collected vintage Erotica; and he further claimed the CP was "innocent nudes" and in no way pornographic in nature. Not being charged doesn't mean he didn't actually own the offending materials.