{"id":387813,"date":"2026-01-04T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387813\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:38:08","slug":"mickey-rourke-approves-gofundme-to-prevent-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387813\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke Approves GoFundMe to Prevent Eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFacing an eviction notice from his Los Angeles rental home, Mickey Rourke<\/a>, 73, is turning to GoFundMe<\/a> to pay $59,100 in owed rent.<\/p>\n

\n\tLaunched early Sunday morning and with his \u201cfull permission,\u201d the crowdfunding drive, \u201cSupport Mickey to Prevent Eviction,\u201d<\/a> urges fans to \u201chelp Mickey Rourke stay in his home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMickey Rourke is currently facing a very difficult and urgent situation: he is at risk of being evicted from his home,\u201d the GoFundMe description reads. \u201cLife doesn\u2019t always move in a straight line, and despite everything Mickey has given through his work and his life, he is now dealing with a challenging financial moment that has put his housing at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fundraiser will pay for \u201cimmediate housing-related expenses and prevent eviction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe goal is to give Mickey some stability and peace of mind during a stressful time so he can stay in his home and have the space to get back on his feet,\u201d the fundraiser explains. \u201cAny donation, no matter the size, will make a real difference.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe GoFundMe is run by Liya-Joelle Jones, a friend and member of Rourke\u2019s management team. \u201cMickey is going through a very difficult time right now, and it\u2019s been incredibly touching to see how many people care about him and want to help,\u201d Jones tells The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

\n\tRourke received the three-day eviction notice on Dec. 18, the Los Angeles Times reported. He signed the lease in March 2025 for $5,200 per month. It was later raised to $7,000 per month. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is a \u201cnicely upgraded Spanish bungalow\u201d built in 1926, according to a Zillow description. Author Raymond Chandler is said to have lived there for two years in the 1940s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRourke launched to superstardom in the 1980s as one of Hollywood\u2019s most magnetic young movie actors, breaking through in a string of landmark films like Diner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, 9 1\/2 Weeks and Angel Heart. With a rough-edged charisma, he seemed poised for enduring stardom, then repeatedly held it at arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisillusioned with studio filmmaking, Rourke walked out on projects and publicly criticized the industry. By the early 1990s, he had mostly abandoned acting to pursue professional boxing, a decision that left him with serious facial injuries that later required extensive reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis film career drifted into low-budget and straight-to-video fare. But Rourke never fully disappeared. Directors, including Robert Rodriguez (2005\u2019s Sin City) and Tony Scott (2005\u2019s Domino), offered him juicy supporting roles, reintroducing him to mainstream audiences.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis comeback peaked in 2008 with Darren Aronofsky\u2019s The Wrestler, in which Rourke played a washed-up professional wrestler clinging to dignity. The performance earned him a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination, reframing his turbulent life as a kind of method biography.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince then, Rourke has worked steadily, often in genre films with ensemble casts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facing an eviction notice from his Los Angeles rental home, Mickey Rourke, 73, is turning to GoFundMe to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,2596,75115],"class_list":{"0":"post-387813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gofundme","11":"tag-mickey-rourke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}