{"id":2224215,"date":"2026-01-06T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224215"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:22:08","slug":"mickey-rourke-denies-involvement-with-humiliating-100k-gofundme-as-he-faces-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mickey-rourke-denies-involvement-with-humiliating-100k-gofundme-as-he-faces-eviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke denies involvement with &#8216;humiliating&#8217; $100K GoFundMe as he faces eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mickey Rourke denied asking for \u201cf\u2013king charity\u201d despite a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/05\/celebrity-news\/mickey-rourke-raising-money-to-avoid-eviction-after-falling-behind-60k-in-rent\/\">GoFundMe in his name raising $100,000<\/a> and counting to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/02\/celebrity-news\/mickey-rourke-looks-unrecognizable-in-rare-sighting-as-he-faces-possible-eviction\/\">keep him from eviction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cconfused\u201d and \u201cfrustrated\u201d actor insisted in an Instagram video Monday, \u201cThat\u2019s not me, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old claimed he \u201cwouldn\u2019t know what a GoFund[Me] foundation is in a million years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mickey Rourke claimed on Monday that he did not create the GoFundMe raising $100,000 and counting to keep him from eviction. <span class=\"credit\">mickey_rourke\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThat\u2019s not me, OK?\u201d the \u201cconfused\u201d and \u201cfrustrated\u201d actor, pictured above in November 2017, insisted via Instagram. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>He added, \u201cIf I needed money, I wouldn\u2019t ask for no f\u2013king charity. I\u2019d rather stick a gun up my ass and pull the trigger. \u2026 My life is very simple, I wouldn\u2019t go to outside sources like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rourke doubled down on it not being his \u201cstyle\u201d to \u201cask strangers or fans or anybody for a nickel\u201d because he has \u201ctoo much pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged fans who donated to the fundraiser to \u201cget [their] money back.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>On Monday, the \u201cSin City\u201d star urged fans to \u201cget [their] money back.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">mickey_rourke\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rourke, pictured above in May 2025, said he has \u201ctoo much pride\u201d to request \u201ca nickel\u201d from strangers. <span class=\"credit\">Mickey Rourke \/ Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As for \u201cwhoever did this,\u201d the \u201cCelebrity Big Brother\u201d alum speculated, \u201cThere\u2019s only one person I can think of that would do such a thing, and I hope it\u2019s not the person I\u2019m thinking about. It\u2019s humiliating. \u2026 But I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll get over it like anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser, notably, was allegedly created with Rourke\u2019s \u201cfull permission\u201d by Liya-Joelle Jones, a woman claiming to be his manager Kimberly Hines\u2019 assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Hines is listed as the beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p>Page Six has reached out to Jones, Hines and GoFundMe for comment but have yet to hear back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThere\u2019s only one person I can think of that would do such a thing, and I hope it\u2019s not the person I\u2019m thinking about,\u201d Rourke added Monday. <span class=\"credit\">mickey_rourke\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The fundraiser was allegedly created by Rourke\u2019s manager\u2019s assistant with the \u201cfull permission\u201d of the ex-boxer, pictured above on Sunday. <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in Rourke\u2019s social media upload, he addressed his financial woes in the wake of reports he owes nearly $60,000 in back rent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t diplomatic,\u201d the \u201cSin City\u201d star said of the \u201creally terrible job\u201d he has done managing his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to go to over 20 years of therapy to get over the damage that was done to me years ago,\u201d he told his followers. \u201cI worked very hard to work through that. I\u2019m not that person anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rourke, pictured above on Jan. 1, recently made headlines for owing nearly $60,000 in back rent. <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>We hear he is currently staying at a luxury West Hollywood hotel. <span class=\"credit\">London Entertainment<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ex-professional boxer, who we hear is currently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/05\/celebrity-news\/mickey-rourke-staying-at-luxury-west-hollywood-hotel-after-crowdfunding-to-avoid-eviction\/\">staying at a luxury West Hollywood hotel<\/a> costing at least $550 a night, did cop to recently borrowing money \u201cfrom a great friend\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daily Mail reported over the weekend that Rourke <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/03\/celebrity-news\/mickey-rourke-rich-poor-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-eviction-looms-report\/\">is \u201crich poor\u201d<\/a> and lives \u201cpaycheck-to-paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source explained to the outlet, \u201cHe spends \u2026 so fast that he is at square one right around the time that he starts making money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Rourke denied asking for \u201cf\u2013king charity\u201d despite a GoFundMe in his name raising $100,000 and counting to keep him from eviction. The \u201cconfused\u201d and \u201cfrustrated\u201d actor insisted in an Instagram video Monday, \u201cThat\u2019s not me, OK?\u201d The 73-year-old claimed he \u201cwouldn\u2019t know what a GoFund[Me] foundation is in a million years.\u201d Mickey Rourke claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,24003,430055,349865,338104,21912],"class_list":["post-2224215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrity-news","tag-evictions","tag-gofundme","tag-mickey-rourke","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mickey-Rourke-denies-involvement-with-humiliating-100K-GoFundMe-as-he.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224217,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224215\/revisions\/2224217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}