Mickey Rourke Evicted Over $60,000 In Unpaid Rent After Turning Down $100,000 In Donations

A judge precocious entered an eviction ruling against character Mickey Rourke who, contempt owing astir $60,000 in unpaid rent astatine his Beverly Grove home, rejected much than $100,000 raised successful a GoFundMe run coordinated by his head to support him housed.

On Monday, a judge issued a default eviction ruling successful favour of Rourke’s landlord, Eric Goldie, for possession of nan location and termination of nan rental agreement, according to documents successful Los Angeles Superior Court. The default ruling intends that Rourke grounded to return action to take sides against nan eviction title wrong nan clip allowed by law.

Rourke, who was a starring man successful nan 1980s pinch movies including “Barfly” and “Angel Heart” and was later Oscar-nominated for his domiciled successful 2008’s “The Wrestler,” was served a three-day announcement to salary rent aliases vacate nan premises connected Dec. 18 and grounded to comply, according to tribunal documents revenge successful Los Angeles Superior Court.

On Dec. 29, his landlord revenge nan eviction complaint, alleging that Rourke owed him $59,100 successful backmost rent connected nan $7,000-a-month rental.

In January, Rourke’s guidance squad group up a GoFundMe to thief support nan character successful his home, pinch his typical Kimberly Hines listed arsenic nan benefactor. Hines did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Tuesday.

“Mickey Rourke is an icon — but his trajectory, arsenic achy arsenic it is, is besides a profoundly quality one,” publication nan explanation for nan since-shuttered GoFundMe. “It is nan communicative of personification who gave everything to his work, took existent risks, and paid existent costs. Fame does not protect against hardship, and talent does not guarantee stability. What remains is simply a personification who deserves dignity, housing, and nan chance to regain his footing.”

Fans quickly rallied to support nan 73-year-old, pinch astir 2,700 donors raising much than $100,000 wrong 3 days.

But Rourke refused to judge nan money, denouncing nan run successful a Jan. 5 video posted connected his Instagram as “humiliating” and stating he would alternatively sprout himself (in a alternatively schematic way) than judge charity.

Rourke said he was successful a “really bad situation” aft caller owners purchased nan location he had been renting for years and would not hole anything. “I said I’m not paying rent, because there’s mice, there’s rats, nan level is rotten, 1 bathtub location is nary water,” he said successful nan video.

The “Iron Man 2” villain said he didn’t cognize who started nan GoFundMe but assured fans he would speak to his lawyer and get to nan bottommost of it. He many times urged anyone who donated to get their money back.

Hines, his head of 9 years, antecedently told nan Hollywood Reporter that it was not existent that he did not cognize who started nan fundraiser, noting that she and her adjunct ran nan thought past Rourke’s adjunct and everyone agreed it would beryllium helpful.

“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I want him working. I don’t want him doing a GoFundMe,” Hines told THR successful January. She said she had arranged to move him retired of nan portion and into an flat successful Koreatown, noting that nan Beverly Grove location had terrible h2o harm and achromatic mold.

An lawyer for nan landlord did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for remark Tuesday.

Times unit writer Christie D’Zurilla contributed to this report.