{"id":2227762,"date":"2026-01-09T00:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2227762"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:52:11","slug":"mickey-rourke-fundraiser-on-hold-as-actor-and-his-team-work-things-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mickey-rourke-fundraiser-on-hold-as-actor-and-his-team-work-things-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke fundraiser on hold as actor and his team work things out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A fundraiser aimed at keeping Mickey Rourke housed has hit the brakes temporarily after the Oscar-nominated actor rejected more than $100,000 from fans and supporters earlier this week.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the GoFundMe page had a \u201cdonations paused\u201d tag on it while Kimberly Hines, Rourke\u2019s manager of nine years, addressed the situation in an update.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you so much for your generosity and for standing with Mickey during this time,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYour support truly means a great deal to us, and we are grateful for every donation. We remain committed to finding a resolution and are working with Mickey to determine the next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rourke, 73, said in a video posted Monday that he didn\u2019t know who set up the campaign. The effort, ostensibly aimed at keeping Rourke in his home when he faced eviction because of nearly $60,000 in unpaid rent<\/a>, was set up Sunday by members of his management team and raised more than its $100,000 goal by Tuesday morning. Dozens of the more than 2,700 people who donated also posted messages about how much the actor\u2019s films had meant to them over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t know what a GoFund foundation is in a million years,\u201d said Rourke, who was a leading man in the 1980s with movies including \u201cBarfly\u201d and \u201cAngel Heart\u201d and was Oscar-nominated for his work in 2008\u2019s \u201cThe Wrestler.\u201d<\/a> \u201cMy life is very simple and I don\u2019t go to outside sources like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said later in the video that he \u201cwould never ask strangers or fans for a nickel. That\u2019s not my style. You ask anyone who knows me. It\u2019s humiliating and it\u2019s really f\u2014 embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rourke said that he wound up in \u201ca really bad situation\u201d with the house he had been renting for years in Beverly Grove. New owners bought the place, wouldn\u2019t fix anything, he said, and raised the rent to $7,000 a month from $5,200. He alleged that the floors were rotted, there was no running water in a couple of places there should have been and the place was infested with rodents.<\/p>\n

Rourke was served with notice of eviction in December, with the landlords also looking to recapture $59,100 in unpaid rent for 2025. Ricardo Villalobos, the attorney representing owner Eric Goldie in the eviction case, did not reply to The Times\u2019 request for comment about Rourke\u2019s allegations. The eviction paperwork, reviewed by The Times<\/a>, was filed Dec. 29.<\/p>\n

Hines did not respond to The Times\u2019 request for comment but spoke with the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on Tuesday, telling the trade that it wasn\u2019t true that Rourke didn\u2019t know the origins of the fundraiser. She validated some of the things he said about the condition of the property and added a few details of her own. In her GoFundMe update Thursday, she included a link where donors who wanted a refund could submit a claim. The fundraiser lists Hines as the beneficiary.<\/p>\n

She told the trade outlet that she and her assistant ran the fundraiser idea past Rourke\u2019s assistant and everyone thought it might be helpful. Hines and her assistant arranged for movers and a U-Haul to help Rourke, got the \u201cIron Man 2\u201d villain and his three dogs out and into a nearby hotel and secured an apartment for him to move into soon in Koreatown, she said, before his landlords were to change the locks that day on what she called an \u201cuninhabitable\u201d house.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody\u2019s trying to grift Mickey. I want him working. I don\u2019t want him doing a GoFundMe,\u201d said Hines, who fronted the money Rourke needed in an \u201cemergency\u201d situation. \u201cThe good thing about this is that he got four movie offers since yesterday. People are emailing him movie offers now, which is great because nobody\u2019s been calling him for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor \u201cdoesn\u2019t know the word moderation,\u201d she told THR. \u201cSo he either has a lot or has nothing. He lives check to check.\u201d Hines said it was time for a reality check with her client about living within his means off Social Security and income from any work that might come his way.<\/p>\n

In his video, Rourke took some responsibility for his situation. <\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I\u2019ve done a really terrible job in managing my career. I wasn\u2019t very diplomatic. I had to go to over 20 years of therapy to get over the damage that was done to me years ago, and I worked very hard to get through that,\u201d the \u201c9\u00bd Weeks\u201d star said. \u201cI\u2019m not that person anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

After telling supporters they should get their money back, he added, \u201cLike all storms, this\u2019ll pass, and I\u2019ll go to work and things will get back to whatever normal is.\u201d Until then, don\u2019t worry about him, he said, because he\u2019s grateful for what he has. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a roof over my head, I\u2019ve got food to eat. … I don\u2019t need anybody\u2019s money, and I wouldn\u2019t do it this way. I\u2019ve got too much pride. This ain\u2019t my style.\u201d<\/p>\n

The total amount pledged to the fundraiser had dropped from more than $100,000 earlier this week to a little less than $97,000 Thursday after it was paused. Late Wednesday, Rourke\u2019s Instagram page reposted a World Boxing News story summing up the reason for the pause.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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