{"id":2292991,"date":"2026-02-21T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2292991"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:36:56","slug":"eric-danes-friend-defends-gofundme-as-sam-levinson-donates-27k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/eric-danes-friend-defends-gofundme-as-sam-levinson-donates-27k\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Dane\u2019s Friend Defends GoFundMe As Sam Levinson Donates $27K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Following the death of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0199312\/\">Eric Dane<\/a>, the actor\u2019s friends have set up a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0764528\/\">GoFundMe<\/a> to support his daughters, but some have met the gesture with criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The late <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8772296\/\">Euphoria<\/a> star\u2019s friend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5212333\/\">Mike McGuiness<\/a> explained why he started the crowdfunding campaign as he shared some heartfelt memories from a recent trip they took to Toyko before his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovid and Als did a number on his work life and he sadly couldn\u2019t leave his family with the resources he had hoped,\u201d wrote McGuiness in the caption. \u201cA GoFundMe is being made and I will post it on my story for anyone able to help. Love the ones you\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGuinness also wrote in part, \u201cMy friend of almost two decades just left us after a brutal battle with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0277625\/\">Als<\/a>. I\u2019m the positive spin guy and can come up with something hopeful in most any situation. This one broke me.<\/p>\n<\/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 www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the death of Eric Dane, the actor\u2019s friends have set up a GoFundMe to support his daughters, but some have met the gesture with criticism. The late Euphoria star\u2019s friend Mike McGuiness explained why he started the crowdfunding campaign as he shared some heartfelt memories from a recent trip they took to Toyko before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2292992,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2292991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Eric-Danes-Friend-Defends-GoFundMe-As-Sam-Levinson-Donates-27K.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292991","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=2292991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292993,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292991\/revisions\/2292993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}