Nagy Is Not Charged by Prosecutor : Courts: The former boyfriend of Heidi Fleiss had been accused of running a call-girl ring. The director’s lawyer says there was no evidence.

Los Angeles County prosecutors declined on Thursday to file pandering charges against television and movie director Ivan Nagy, a former boyfriend of alleged Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.

Although the district attorney’s office refused to say why charges were not being brought, Nagy’s attorney insisted that there was no evidence to support allegations that his client was operating a pricey call-girl ring.

Nagy “is not a panderer,” lawyer Barry Levin told reporters. “The district attorney came to the conclusion that there was no evidence to prove a criminal case. You can’t get any more innocent than that.”

As Levin spoke, Nagy stood beside him, smiling broadly for the cameras outside the same courtroom where Fleiss was arraigned last month amid a media frenzy on pandering and drug charges.

Nagy was arrested Aug. 4 on suspicion of operating a prostitution ring competing with one allegedly run by Fleiss. Also arrested that day was Julie Conatser, 23, Nagy’s alleged partner. The district attorney’s office said Thursday that no criminal charges were being filed against her either.

The disclosure that Nagy and Conatser would not be prosecuted came during a brief hearing before Municipal Commissioner Abraham Khan, who had earlier warned prosecutors that if charges were not filed by Thursday he would release the director from future obligations to appear in court.

At the hearing, a representative of the district attorney’s office did not specify why charges were not being filed.

When contacted by The Times, Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Carter, who reviewed the police investigation, declined to comment on whether charges may be filed later against the pair.

Nagy, who is best known as a director of made-for-TV movies and for the show “Starsky and Hutch,” had a brief romance with Fleiss five years ago that ended acrimoniously. When she learned of his arrest last month, she said she was ecstatic.

Contacted at her Benedict Canyon home Thursday for comment on the decision not to prosecute Nagy and Conatser, Fleiss said: “The truth is I really don’t care.”

Fleiss is scheduled to be in court Sept. 21 on the charges against her.

Compared with Fleiss’ arraignment on Aug. 9, when she was mobbed by scores of journalists, some from as far away as Great Britain, Nagy’s hearing on Thursday was subdued and over so fast that some of the dozen or so reporters present did not even realize it had begun.

Afterward, at an impromptu news conference, Levin denied speculation that his client had struck a deal with prosecutors to help in the prosecution of Fleiss.

Times staff writer Shawn Hubler contributed to this report.