Representatives for the 81-year-old “Buddy Holly” star say he entered the guilty plea to a single count of criminal sexual contact during a virtual hearing in Camden.

Actor Gary Busey has pleaded guilty to criminal sexual contact at the Monster Mania Con in New Jersey in 2022, admitting he grabbed a woman’s buttocks intentionally. Busey, 81, of Malibu, California, entered his guilty plea during a virtual hearing Thursday before Judge Gwendolyn Blue in Camden’s Superior Court.

Gary Busey has plead guilty to groping a woman at a horror movie convention in New Jersey in 2022. The Oscar-nominated actor, 81, was a featured guest at that year’s Monster-Mania Convention held at the Double Tree Hilton hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.