Mickey Rourke is doubling down on his disgust over a fundraiser that quickly raised more than $100,000 on his behalf, calling it an embarrassing \u201cscam\u201d and a \u201cvicious cruel lie\u201d and promising \u201csevere repercussions to [the] individual who did this very bad thing\u201d to him.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the fundraiser \u2014 aimed at keeping Rourke in his home when he faced eviction because of almost $60,000 in unpaid rent<\/a> \u2014 has been taken down, with the actor\u2019s name being used now by others to boost their more anonymous efforts. <\/p>\n (A Friday morning search for \u201cMickey Rourke\u201d on GoFundMe yielded more than a dozen campaigns drafting off the search value of the actor\u2019s high-profile situation but the campaign set up for the \u201c9\u00bd Weeks\u201d actor was nowhere to be found.) <\/p>\n The GoFundMe had been placed on pause last week<\/a> after more than $100,000 was raised in two days, with Rourke\u2019s manager Kimberly Hines writing, \u201cThank you so much for your generosity and for standing with Mickey during this time. Your 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 Rejecting the donations, Rourke<\/a> called the fundraiser \u201chumiliating\u201d and \u201creally f\u2014 embarrassing\u201d in a video posted last week, saying he didn\u2019t need the money. <\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t know what a GoFund foundation is in a million years,\u201d said the actor, 73, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Hines might disagree, as she said she\u2019s the one who has been fronting the money to cover Rourke\u2019s move out of the Beverly Grove house and into a hotel and subsequently into a Koreatown apartment. <\/p>\n Hines\u2019 assistant\u2019s name had been listed as the creator of the fundraiser, with Hines named as the beneficiary. The actor\u2019s manager of nine years told the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on Jan. 6 that Rourke knew the origins of the effort, despite saying he did not: She and her assistant had run the idea past his assistant before it was launched, she said, and both teams were OK with it. <\/p>\n \u201cNobody\u2019s trying to grift Mickey. I want him working. I don\u2019t want him doing a GoFundMe,\u201d Hines told THR. \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 But Rourke was still fretting over it Thursday on Instagram, where he said in a couple of posts that there was still more than $90,000 to be returned to his supporters and promised<\/a> that his attorney was \u201cdoing everything in his power\u201d to make sure people got their \u201chard earned money\u201d back. <\/p>\n