Mickey Rourke evicted over $60,000 in unpaid rent after turning down $100,000 in donations

A justice precocious entered an eviction ruling against histrion Mickey Rourke who, contempt owing astir $60,000 successful unpaid rent astatine his Beverly Grove home, rejected much than $100,000 raised successful a GoFundMe run coordinated by his manager to support him housed.

On Monday, a justice issued a default eviction ruling successful favour of Rourke’s landlord, Eric Goldie, for possession of the location and termination of the rental agreement, according to documents successful Los Angeles Superior Court. The default ruling means that Rourke failed to instrumentality enactment to support against the eviction ailment wrong the clip allowed by law.

Rourke, who was a starring antheral successful the 1980s with movies including “Barfly” and “Angel Heart” and was aboriginal Oscar-nominated for his relation successful 2008’s “The Wrestler,” was served a three-day announcement to wage rent oregon vacate the premises connected Dec. 18 and failed to comply, according to tribunal documents filed successful Los Angeles Superior Court.

On Dec. 29, his landlord filed the eviction complaint, alleging that Rourke owed him $59,100 successful backmost rent connected the $7,000-a-month rental.

In January, Rourke’s absorption squad acceptable up a GoFundMe to assistance support the histrion successful his home, with his typical Kimberly Hines listed arsenic the benefactor. Hines did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Tuesday.

“Mickey Rourke is an icon — but his trajectory, arsenic achy arsenic it is, is besides a profoundly quality one,” work the statement for the since-shuttered GoFundMe. “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.”

Fans rapidly rallied to enactment the 73-year-old, with astir 2,700 donors raising much than $100,000 wrong 3 days.

But Rourke refused to judge the money, denouncing the run successful a Jan. 5 video posted connected his Instagram arsenic “humiliating” and stating helium would alternatively sprout himself (in a alternatively graphic way) than judge charity.

Rourke said helium was successful a “really atrocious situation” aft caller owners purchased the location helium had been renting for years and would not hole anything. “I said I’m not paying rent, due to the fact that there’s mice, there’s rats, the level is rotten, 1 bathtub determination is nary water,” helium said successful the video.

The “Iron Man 2” villain said helium didn’t cognize who started the GoFundMe but assured fans helium would talk to his lawyer and get to the bottommost of it. He repeatedly urged anyone who donated to get their wealth back.

Hines, his manager of 9 years, antecedently told the Hollywood Reporter that it was not existent that helium did not cognize who started the fundraiser, noting that she and her adjunct ran the thought past Rourke’s adjunct and everyone agreed it would beryllium helpful.

“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I privation him working. I don’t privation him doing a GoFundMe,” Hines told THR successful January. She said she had arranged to determination him retired of the portion and into an flat successful Koreatown, noting that the Beverly Grove location had terrible h2o harm and achromatic mold.

An lawyer for the landlord did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for remark Tuesday.

Times unit writer Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.