Followers of Mickey Rourke have come by way of on his behalf, donating nearly $80,000 to date by way of a web-based fundraiser designed to maintain the actor and boxer in his Beverly Grove-area rental house.
The GoFundMe was launched Sunday morning by his supervisor’s assistant, with Rourke’s permission. By Monday morning it had reached nearly 79% of its $100,000 objective through donations from nearly 2,000 supporters.
On Dec. 18, Rourke, 73, was served with a three-day discover to pay hire or vacate the three-bedroom, 2½-bath premises the place he signed a lease by way of final April at $5,200 a month; hire was subsequently raised to $7,000 a month. The entire quantity owed for 2025 was $59,100, based on authorized paperwork reviewed by The Instances.
“Mickey Rourke is an icon — however his trajectory, as painful as it’s, can be a deeply human one,” the GoFundMe says. “It’s the story of somebody who gave all the things to his work, took actual dangers, and paid actual prices. Fame doesn’t shield towards hardship, and expertise doesn’t assure stability. What stays is an individual who deserves dignity, housing, and the possibility to regain his footing.”
Rourke’s supervisor, Kimberly Hines, is called because the beneficiary of the fundraiser and based on the GoFundMe web page is “straight concerned” in overseeing Rourke’s private {and professional} affairs.
“The objective is easy: to provide Mickey stability and peace of thoughts throughout a particularly worrying time — so he can keep in his house and have the area to get again on his toes,” the outline says. Later, it provides, “All funds withdrawn from this marketing campaign might be utilized straight towards Mickey’s rapid wants and bills, with full transparency and care, and strictly on his behalf.”
Rourke shined in main roles in mid-Eighties motion pictures together with “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “9½ Weeks” and “Barfly.” Then, after returning to boxing in 1991, there got here an extended stretch of “not a lot” within the space of appearing success.
Rourke’s private ache was on show when he talked about his “Wrestler” function as Randy “The Ram” Robinson on the 2008 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
“I misplaced all the things. My home, my spouse, my credibility, my profession,” he instructed The Instances. “I even misplaced my entourage, which is when you recognize issues are actually unhealthy. I simply had all this anger from my childhood, which was actually disgrace, not anger, and used it as armor and machismo to cowl up my wounds. Sadly, the best way I acted actually frightened folks, though it was actually simply me who was scared. However I used to be like this one who was short-circuited and I didn’t know how one can repair myself.”
He wound up getting assist from a therapist, he stated on the time. What he didn’t know then was that the function would earn him a greatest actor Oscar nomination in 2009, earlier than he bought extra consideration in 2010 for his efficiency as villain Ivan Vanko in “Iron Man 2.”
“Let’s put it this fashion, Randy the Ram was someone 20 years in the past and so was Mickey Rourke,” he stated in Toronto. “If you was someone and also you aren’t anyone anymore, you reside in what my physician calls a state of disgrace. You don’t need to exit of the home. You hate simply going to the shop and having to face in line, as a result of inevitably somebody will stare at you and say, ‘Hey, didn’t you was somebody within the motion pictures?’”
Rourke’s “actual and punishing” boxing profession, which occurred earlier than and through his appearing profession, “left lasting bodily and emotional scars,” the fundraiser says. Throughout his down years, he had well being challenges and monetary pressure, based on the GoFundMe.
In line with IMDb, the Web Film Database, Rourke has six upcoming movies on his calendar, together with two which are accomplished and one that’s presently filming.
Hines, Rourke’s supervisor, didn’t reply instantly to a request for remark.
