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from www.abcnews.go.com – Actor Charlie Sheen is home in Los Angeles this morning, a day after undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at a New York hospital after an apparent hotel rampage.

The oft-troubled actor, still on probation for pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault against his wife, voluntarily submitted to the evaluation shortly after police found his room at the famed Plaza Hotel trashed early Tuesday morning.

“There was a call by Plaza Hotel security about a disorderly man in a room,” New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Tuesday.

The “Two and a Half Men” actor was found drunk and screaming that he thought he’d lost his wallet, sources said. An unidentified woman found in his room had reportedly accompanied Sheen and his ex-wife, Denise Richards, to an expensive dinner hours before, according to the sources.

Sheen’s agent offered a much different version of the incident, saying that “Charlie had an adverse allergic reaction to some medication.”

TMZ obtained photos from the hotel that showed Sheen’s room in disarray with a rumpled bed and what appeared to be a broken chair.

Sheen, 45, has reportedly offered to pay for $7,000 worth of damage to the hotel room.

There have been no charges filed against the actor for the Plaza incident. He has about one week left of probation from last year’s assault on wife Brook Mueller in which he allegedly threatened her with a knife, prompting Mueller to call 911.

Despite his troubles, Sheen is still the highest paid actor on television.

“The public still seems to like Charlie Sheen and it hasn’t caught up with him,” publicist Howard Bragman told “Good Morning America” today.

“We’ve seen it so many times that we hardly get fazed when something happens to Charlie Sheen.”

But Attorney Gloria Allred accused authorities of pandering to Sheen’s Hollywood status instead of punishing his bad-boy behavior.

“The court system has not treated him and given him the serious consequences he deserves, given his conduct,” she told “Good Morning America,” pointing to his sentence of probation after admitting he assaulted Mueller.

“I think Charlie Sheen got a sentence in a theater of the absurd,” she said. ” He should have gone to jail.”

CBS has yet to comment on the Plaza Hotel incident, but Bragman said Sheen is likely getting pressure from network brass to get himself under control

“These things don’t stop on their own,” he said. “Unless you go and get some help, they don’t stop.”

Richards, the mother of two of Sheen’s daughters, who were staying with her in a nearby room at the Plaza, told Joy Behar that she knew the details of what happened in his hotel room but declined to disclose them.

Richards said during an interview on “The Joy Behar Show” that she “did help him at the hospital” after the incident but did not want to say what she knew out of concern for her relationship with Sheen and the welfare of their daughters, Sam, 6, and Lola, 5.

“They’re at an age when they can start to understand,” Richards told Behar. “They have no idea what went on and … our stuff happened when they were much younger, which I’m so grateful for. We’re in an amazing place. We’ve been getting along great for the last year, year and a half.

“As far as that situation, I’m trying to protect the girls from it as much as possible,” Richards said.

“I’d rather leave that for Charlie to discuss,” she said. “I do know what happened.”

Sheen is eight days away from completing his probation. The Aspen District Attorney’s office told TMZ.com that it’s aware of the Plaza Hotel incident but won’t take any action unless it receives facts showing that Sheen violated his probation.

In July, Sheen took time off from his hit television show voluntarily to enter a rehab facility — for the third time in his career — “as a preventive measure,” according to his rep, Stan Rosenfield.

At Sheen’s sentencing in August, his attorney, Yale Galanter, said the actor had already spent 93 days at the Promises rehabilitation facility this year, and the center could choose to credit that time toward his sentence.

“Credit for time served is absolutely on the table,” Galanter said. “How much credit he gets is up to Promises.”

Galanter also said that Sheen and Mueller had been sober for months.

Substance abuse and anger issues aren’t Sheen’s only woes. Twice this year, cars stolen from his Hollywood Hills home have been found crashed and abandoned in a ravine.