Fundraiser for Mickey Rourke is on hold as evicted actor and his team figure out next steps

A fundraiser aimed astatine keeping Mickey Rourke housed has deed the brakes temporarily aft the Oscar-nominated histrion rejected much than $100,000 from fans and supporters earlier this week.

On Thursday, the GoFundMe leafage had a “donations paused” tag connected it portion Kimberly Hines, Rourke’s manager of 9 years, addressed the concern successful an update.

“Thank you truthful overmuch for your generosity and for lasting with Mickey during this time,” she wrote. “Your enactment genuinely means a large woody to us, and we are grateful for each donation. We stay committed to uncovering a solution and are moving with Mickey to find the adjacent steps.”

Rourke, 73, said successful a video posted Monday that helium didn’t cognize who acceptable up the campaign. The effort, ostensibly aimed astatine keeping Rourke successful his location erstwhile helium faced eviction due to the fact that of astir $60,000 successful unpaid rent, was acceptable up Sunday by members of his absorption squad and raised much than its $100,000 extremity by Tuesday morning. Dozens of the much than 2,700 radical who donated besides posted messages astir however overmuch the actor’s films had meant to them implicit the years.

“I wouldn’t cognize what a GoFund instauration is successful a cardinal years,” said Rourke, who was a starring antheral successful the 1980s with movies including “Barfly” and “Angel Heart” and was Oscar-nominated for his enactment successful 2008’s “The Wrestler.” “My beingness is precise elemental and I don’t spell to extracurricular sources similar that.”

He said aboriginal successful the video that helium “would ne'er inquire strangers oregon fans for a nickel. That’s not my style. You inquire anyone who knows me. It’s humiliating and it’s truly f— embarrassing.”

Rourke said that helium coiled up successful “a truly atrocious situation” with the location helium had been renting for years successful Beverly Grove. New owners bought the place, wouldn’t hole anything, helium said, and raised the rent to $7,000 a period from $5,200. He alleged that the floors were rotted, determination was nary moving h2o successful a mates of places determination should person been and the spot was infested with rodents.

Rourke was served with announcement of eviction successful December, with the landlords besides looking to recapture $59,100 successful unpaid rent for 2025. Ricardo Villalobos, the lawyer representing proprietor Eric Goldie successful the eviction case, did not reply to The Times’ petition for remark astir Rourke’s allegations. The eviction paperwork, reviewed by The Times, was filed Dec. 29.

Hines did not respond to The Times’ petition for remark but spoke with the Hollywood Reporter connected Tuesday, telling the commercialized that it wasn’t existent that Rourke didn’t cognize the origins of the fundraiser. She validated immoderate of the things helium said astir the information of the spot and added a fewer details of her own. In her GoFundMe update Thursday, she included a nexus wherever donors who wanted a refund could taxable a claim. The fundraiser lists Hines arsenic the beneficiary.

She told the commercialized outlet that she and her adjunct ran the fundraiser thought past Rourke’s adjunct and everyone thought it mightiness beryllium helpful. Hines and her adjunct arranged for movers and a U-Haul to assistance Rourke, got the “Iron Man 2” villain and his 3 dogs retired and into a adjacent edifice and secured an flat for him to determination into soon successful Koreatown, she said, earlier his landlords were to alteration the locks that time connected what she called an “uninhabitable” house.

“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I privation him working. I don’t privation him doing a GoFundMe,” said Hines, who fronted the wealth Rourke needed successful an “emergency” situation. “The bully happening astir this is that helium got 4 movie offers since yesterday. People are emailing him movie offers now, which is large due to the fact that nobody’s been calling him for a agelong time.”

The histrion “doesn’t cognize the connection moderation,” she told THR. “So helium either has a batch oregon has nothing. He lives cheque to check.” Hines said it was clip for a world cheque with her lawsuit astir surviving wrong his means disconnected Social Security and income from immoderate enactment that mightiness travel his way.

In his video, Rourke took immoderate work for his situation.

“Listen, I’ve done a truly unspeakable occupation successful managing my career. I wasn’t precise diplomatic. I had to spell to implicit 20 years of therapy to get implicit the harm that was done to maine years ago, and I worked precise hard to get done that,” the “9½ Weeks” prima said. “I’m not that idiosyncratic anymore.”

After telling supporters they should get their wealth back, helium added, “Like each storms, this’ll pass, and I’ll spell to enactment and things volition get backmost to immoderate mean is.” Until then, don’t interest astir him, helium said, due to the fact that he’s grateful for what helium has.

“I’ve got a extortion implicit my head, I’ve got nutrient to eat. ... I don’t request anybody’s money, and I wouldn’t bash it this way. I’ve got excessively overmuch pride. This ain’t my style.”

The full magnitude pledged to the fundraiser had dropped from much than $100,000 earlier this week to a small little than $97,000 Thursday aft it was paused. Late Wednesday, Rourke’s Instagram leafage reposted a World Boxing News communicative summing up the crushed for the pause.