Mickey Rourke rejects $100,000 pledged by fans as manager explains eviction backstory

Mickey Rourke doesn’t privation your money.

He would alternatively sprout himself successful a peculiarly graphic mode — don’t inquire for details, it’s precise Mickey Rourke — than instrumentality foundation portion he’s getting kicked retired of his home, the histrion and erstwhile boxer said successful a video posted Monday nighttime connected Instagram. “That’s not me,” the 73-year-old said.

Holding a Chihuahua named Lucky successful his lap, Rourke alleged that helium didn’t cognize who acceptable up a GoFundMe run connected his behalf implicit the weekend. 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 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. Yeah, it is embarrassing, but I’m definite I’ll get implicit it, similar thing else.”

As for the money, helium 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. ... If idiosyncratic gave maine — they said it’s up to $100,000. I wouldn’t instrumentality a f— nickel from anybody.”

But don’t mistake this for an outburst from the antheral Rourke utilized to be, helium said. He has simply been successful “a truly atrocious situation” with the location helium was renting for years successful Beverly Grove. New owners bought the place, helium said, raised the rent to $7,000 a period from $5,200 and wouldn’t hole anything.

Rourke 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.

Ricardo Villalobos, the lawyer representing proprietor Eric Goldie successful the eviction case, did not reply instantly Tuesday to The Times’ petition for remark astir Rourke’s allegations. The eviction paperwork, reviewed by The Times, was filed Dec. 29 and cited $59,100 successful unpaid rent for 2025.

Meanwhile, Rourke’s manager of 9 years, Kimberly Hines, talked to the Hollywood Reporter astir the GoFundMe successful a telephone from Europe. She had spoken with Rourke a mates of times Sunday, she said, and she said it’s not existent that helium has nary thought who started the fundraising effort.

“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I privation him working. I don’t privation him doing a GoFundMe,” Hines told THR. “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.”

She and her adjunct ran the thought past Rourke’s assistant, she said, and everyone thought the fundraiser mightiness beryllium helpful. Hines and her adjunct arranged for movers and a U-Haul, 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 Tuesday connected what she called an “uninhabitable” house.

“There was achromatic mold,” successful the house, Hines told THR. “No moving water. So basically, we can’t adjacent determination immoderate of the furnishings out. There was h2o damage. So helium can’t adjacent instrumentality astir of his belongings with him due to the fact that each the furnishings is wholly destroyed.” Someone recorded the harm connected video, she said, portion a mates of radical “were astatine his location packing up each of his valuables that could beryllium salvaged, and they were moved to this caller apartment.”

Hines told THR that she plans to stay arsenic Rourke’s manager contempt the chaos. She did not respond to The Times’ petition for remark Monday.

“[N]obody present has done thing wrong,” she told the trade. “It was done with a bully intention, with a bully heart. ... Right now, I’m fronting the wealth for Mickey to get him retired of this exigency situation.”

Hines said Rourke should astir apt instrumentality the donated money, due to the fact that she tin concern him for lone truthful long. The histrion has ne'er been large astatine managing his money, she said.

“He doesn’t truly cognize the connection moderation,” she told THR. “So helium either has a batch oregon has nothing. He lives cheque to check.” She said Rourke’s accountant was trying to get the actor’s wealth concern successful bid and it was clip for a world cheque with the histrion astir surviving wrong his means disconnected Social Security and income from immoderate enactment that mightiness travel his way.

In his video, Rourke admitted the concern extremity of his concern has ne'er been his beardown suit.

“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. ... You gotta speech to the past respective radical I’ve worked with. Talk to Robert Rodriguez, speech to Francis Coppola, speech to Darren Aronofsky. You know, I’m not that chaotic antheral I was 20-something years ago. But you wage the terms for your past.”

That said, helium was adamant that the fundraising effort was “really embarrassing” and that radical who donated should get their wealth back.

But, helium said, “Like each storms, this’ll pass, and I’ll spell to enactment and things volition get backmost to immoderate mean is.”

Until then, Rourke said, don’t interest astir him.

“I’m grateful for what I have. I’ve got a extortion implicit my head, I’ve got nutrient to eat. ... Everything’s OK. Just get your wealth back, please. 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.”