Mickey Rourke's supporters step up with donations aimed at preventing his eviction

Fans of Mickey Rourke person travel done connected his behalf, donating astir $80,000 truthful acold done an online fundraiser designed to support the histrion and boxer successful his Beverly Grove-area rental home.

The GoFundMe was launched Sunday greeting by his manager’s assistant, with Rourke’s permission. By Monday greeting it had reached astir 79% of its $100,000 extremity via donations from astir 2,000 supporters.

On Dec. 18, Rourke, 73, was served with a three-day announcement to wage rent oregon vacate the three-bedroom, 2½-bath premises wherever helium signed a lease done past April astatine $5,200 a month; rent was subsequently raised to $7,000 a month. The full magnitude owed for 2025 was $59,100, according to ineligible documents reviewed by The Times.

“Mickey Rourke is an icon — but his trajectory, arsenic achy arsenic it is, is besides a profoundly quality one,” the GoFundMe says. “It is the communicative of idiosyncratic who gave everything to his work, took existent risks, and paid existent costs. Fame does not support against hardship, and endowment does not warrant stability. What remains is simply a idiosyncratic who deserves dignity, housing, and the accidental to regain his footing.”

Rourke’s manager, Kimberly Hines, is named arsenic the beneficiary of the fundraiser and according to the GoFundMe leafage is “directly involved” successful overseeing Rourke’s idiosyncratic and nonrecreational affairs.

“The extremity is simple: to springiness Mickey stableness and bid of caput during an highly stressful clip — truthful helium tin enactment successful his location and person the abstraction to get backmost connected his feet,” the statement says. Later, it adds, “All funds withdrawn from this run volition beryllium applied straight toward Mickey’s contiguous needs and expenses, with afloat transparency and care, and strictly connected his behalf.”

Rourke shined successful starring roles successful mid-1980s movies including “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “9½ Weeks” and “Barfly.” Then, aft returning to boxing successful 1991, determination came a agelong long of “not truthful much” successful the country of acting success.

Rourke’s idiosyncratic symptom was connected show erstwhile helium talked astir his “Wrestler” relation arsenic Randy “The Ram” Robinson astatine the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.

“I mislaid everything. My house, my wife, my credibility, my career,” helium told The Times. “I adjacent mislaid my entourage, which is erstwhile you cognize things are truly bad. I conscionable had each this choler from my childhood, which was truly shame, not anger, and utilized it arsenic armor and machismo to screen up my wounds. Unfortunately, the mode I acted truly frightened people, though it was truly conscionable maine who was scared. But I was similar this idiosyncratic who was short-circuited and I didn’t cognize however to hole myself.”

He coiled up getting assistance from a therapist, helium said astatine the time. What helium didn’t cognize past was that the relation would gain him a champion histrion Oscar information successful 2009, earlier helium got further attraction successful 2010 for his show arsenic villain Ivan Vanko successful “Iron Man 2.”

“Let’s enactment it this way, Randy the Ram was idiosyncratic 20 years agone and truthful was Mickey Rourke,” helium said successful Toronto. “When you utilized to beryllium idiosyncratic and you aren’t anybody anymore, you unrecorded successful what my doc calls a authorities of shame. You don’t privation to spell retired of the house. You hatred conscionable going to the store and having to basal successful line, due to the fact that inevitably idiosyncratic volition look astatine you and say, ‘Hey, didn’t you utilized to beryllium idiosyncratic successful the movies?’”

Rourke’s “real and punishing” boxing career, which happened earlier and during his acting career, “left lasting carnal and affectional scars,” the fundraiser says. During his down years, helium had wellness challenges and fiscal strain, according to the GoFundMe.

According to IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, Rourke has six upcoming films connected his calendar, including 2 that are completed and 1 that is presently filming.

Hines, Rourke’s manager, did not respond instantly to a petition for comment.