A fundraiser geared toward protecting Mickey Rourke housed has hit the brakes briefly after the Oscar-nominated actor rejected greater than $100,000 from followers and supporters earlier this week.
On Thursday, the GoFundMe web page had a “donations paused” tag on it whereas Kimberly Hines, Rourke’s supervisor of 9 years, addressed the scenario in an replace.
“Thanks a lot in your generosity and for standing with Mickey throughout this time,” she wrote. “Your assist really means an incredible deal to us, and we’re grateful for each donation. We stay dedicated to discovering a decision and are working with Mickey to find out the subsequent steps.”
Rourke, 73, mentioned in a video posted Monday that he didn’t know who arrange the marketing campaign. The trouble, ostensibly geared toward protecting Rourke in his dwelling when he confronted eviction due to practically $60,000 in unpaid lease, was arrange Sunday by members of his administration crew and raised greater than its $100,000 objective by Tuesday morning. Dozens of the greater than 2,700 individuals who donated additionally posted messages about how a lot the actor’s movies had meant to them through the years.
“I wouldn’t know what a GoFund basis is in 1,000,000 years,” mentioned Rourke, who was a number one man within the Nineteen Eighties with motion pictures together with “Barfly” and “Angel Coronary heart” and was Oscar-nominated for his work in 2008’s “The Wrestler.” “My life could be very easy and I don’t go to outdoors sources like that.”
He mentioned later within the video that he “would by no means ask strangers or followers for a nickel. That’s not my type. You ask anybody who is aware of me. It’s humiliating and it’s actually f— embarrassing.”
Rourke mentioned that he wound up in “a very dangerous scenario” with the home he had been renting for years in Beverly Grove. New house owners purchased the place, wouldn’t repair something, he mentioned, and raised the lease to $7,000 a month from $5,200. He alleged that the flooring have been rotted, there was no working water in a few locations there ought to have been and the place was infested with rodents.
Rourke was served with discover of eviction in December, with the landlords additionally trying to recapture $59,100 in unpaid lease for 2025. Ricardo Villalobos, the legal professional representing proprietor Eric Goldie within the eviction case, didn’t reply to The Instances’ request for remark about Rourke’s allegations. The eviction paperwork, reviewed by The Instances, was filed Dec. 29.
Hines didn’t reply to The Instances’ request for remark however spoke with the Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, telling the commerce that it wasn’t true that Rourke didn’t know the origins of the fundraiser. She validated among the issues he mentioned in regards to the situation of the property and added just a few particulars of her personal. In her GoFundMe replace Thursday, she included a hyperlink the place donors who needed a refund might submit a declare. The fundraiser lists Hines because the beneficiary.
She advised the commerce outlet that she and her assistant ran the fundraiser concept previous Rourke’s assistant and everybody thought it is likely to be useful. Hines and her assistant organized for movers and a U-Haul to assist Rourke, bought the “Iron Man 2” villain and his three canine out and into a close-by lodge and secured an condominium for him to maneuver into quickly in Koreatown, she mentioned, earlier than his landlords have been to vary the locks that day on what she known as an “uninhabitable” home.
“No one’s making an attempt to grift Mickey. I need him working. I don’t need him doing a GoFundMe,” mentioned Hines, who fronted the cash Rourke wanted in an “emergency” scenario. “The advantage of that is that he bought 4 film presents since yesterday. Individuals are emailing him film presents now, which is nice as a result of no person’s been calling him for a very long time.”
The actor “doesn’t know the phrase moderation,” she advised THR. “So he both has so much or has nothing. He lives examine to examine.” Hines mentioned it was time for a actuality examine together with her consumer about dwelling inside his means off Social Safety and revenue from any work which may come his method.
In his video, Rourke took some duty for his scenario.
“Hear, I’ve finished a very horrible job in managing my profession. I wasn’t very diplomatic. I needed to go to over 20 years of remedy to recover from the injury that was finished to me years in the past, and I labored very onerous to get via that,” the “9½ Weeks” star mentioned. “I’m not that particular person anymore.”
After telling supporters they need to get their a reimbursement, he added, “Like all storms, this’ll move, and I’ll go to work and issues will get again to no matter regular is.” Till then, don’t fear about him, he mentioned, as a result of he’s grateful for what he has.
“I’ve bought a roof over my head, I’ve bought meals to eat. … I don’t want anyone’s cash, and I wouldn’t do it this manner. I’ve bought an excessive amount of pleasure. This ain’t my type.”
The whole quantity pledged to the fundraiser had dropped from greater than $100,000 earlier this week to rather less than $97,000 Thursday after it was paused. Late Wednesday, Rourke’s Instagram web page reposted a World Boxing Information story summing up the rationale for the pause.
