Facing an eviction notice from his Los Angeles rental home, Mickey Rourke, 73, is turning to GoFundMe to pay $59,100 in owed rent.
Launched early Sunday morning and with his “full permission,” the crowdfunding drive, “Support Mickey to Prevent Eviction,” urges fans to “help Mickey Rourke stay in his home.”
“Mickey Rourke is currently facing a very difficult and urgent situation: he is at risk of being evicted from his home,” the GoFundMe description reads. “Life doesn’t always move in a straight line, and despite everything Mickey has given through his work and his life, he is now dealing with a challenging financial moment that has put his housing at risk.”
The fundraiser will pay for “immediate housing-related expenses and prevent eviction.”
“The goal is to give Mickey some stability and peace of mind during a stressful time so he can stay in his home and have the space to get back on his feet,” the fundraiser explains. “Any donation, no matter the size, will make a real difference.”
The GoFundMe is run by Liya-Joelle Jones, a friend and member of Rourke’s management team. “Mickey is going through a very difficult time right now, and it’s been incredibly touching to see how many people care about him and want to help,” Jones tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Rourke received the three-day eviction notice on Dec. 18, the Los Angeles Times reported. He signed the lease in March 2025 for $5,200 per month. It was later raised to $7,000 per month.
The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is a “nicely upgraded Spanish bungalow” built in 1926, according to a Zillow description. Author Raymond Chandler is said to have lived there for two years in the 1940s.
Rourke launched to superstardom in the 1980s as one of Hollywood’s most magnetic young movie actors, breaking through in a string of landmark films like Diner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, 9 1/2 Weeks and Angel Heart. With a rough-edged charisma, he seemed poised for enduring stardom, then repeatedly held it at arm’s length.
Disillusioned with studio filmmaking, Rourke walked out on projects and publicly criticized the industry. By the early 1990s, he had mostly abandoned acting to pursue professional boxing, a decision that left him with serious facial injuries that later required extensive reconstructive surgery.
His film career drifted into low-budget and straight-to-video fare. But Rourke never fully disappeared. Directors, including Robert Rodriguez (2005’s Sin City) and Tony Scott (2005’s Domino), offered him juicy supporting roles, reintroducing him to mainstream audiences.
His comeback peaked in 2008 with Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, in which Rourke played a washed-up professional wrestler clinging to dignity. The performance earned him a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination, reframing his turbulent life as a kind of method biography.
Since then, Rourke has worked steadily, often in genre films with ensemble casts.
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