Mickey Rourke demands $100,000 to avoid eviction

BarcelonaActor Mickey Rourke has taken advantage of the holiday season to launch a fundraising campaign to maintain his house. If he doesn't reach the $100,000 he's asking for, he'll continue the fundraising. on the GoFundMe platformHe could be evicted from his rental home in Los Angeles. "Fame doesn't protect against hardship and talent doesn't guarantee stability," the platform's announcement reads.

The former boxer and actor, who experienced a professional resurgence following the film The wrestler (2008), is going through a difficult financial situation and cannot afford the upkeep of his home. In December, the landlord sued him for failing to pay $60,000 in unpaid rent on a house in West Hollywood. The actor received an eviction notice on December 18 for an apartment he had been renting since March 2025 for $5,200 a month, which later increased to $7,000 a month, according to the newspaper. Los Angeles Times

So far, it has already reached half of its goal, about $50,000. The campaign was created with Rourke's consent by Liya-Joelle Jones, a friend of the actor who is part of his team, and aims to give him some time to "recover," she says, after having suffered "health problems, financial strain, and the silent price of being forgotten."

Rourke began his career in the 1980s working with great directors, with titles such as 1941, by Steven Spielberg; Money, by Barry Levinson; Rumble fish Coppola's; and Nine and a half weeks, by Adrian Lyne. In the nineties his career declined, and he couldn't regain his place in boxing, but he returned in the following decade with titles such as Sin City, Iron Man 2 and the Oscar nomination for The wrestlerSince then he has continued working but often in minor films, which don't even get a theatrical release.