January 7, 2026

Mickey Rourke doesn't want your charity.

Background: "Mickey Rourke Declines $100,000 in Donations After His Eviction/Rourke’s landlord said in court documents that the actor owed nearly $60,000 in rent. Rourke said he had opted not to pay rent after the home became uninhabitable" (NYT).

48 comments:

Breezy said...

There’s nothing a warm pup can’t help you to get through.

Political Junkie said...

Conservative/Meanie Me says don't give money to bums/hobos.

rehajm said...

Is this in California? I thought evictions didn’t exist in California. The process is so long once the teeth start to bite the squatters rights have already kicked in. California only goes after people with money. They must think he still has some money…

rehajm said...

If you loathe finance it does not exempt you from participating in it. Get good at it. Good enough is good enough…

RideSpaceMountain said...

Dude's looking ruff.

rehajm said...

overheard at rehajm’s:

J: ooh, puppy. Why is he so sad?

r: …because Mickey Rourke is his person

Wilbur said...

Mickey Roarke? Yeah , he was good in those Andy Hardy movies.

Kirk Parker said...

So... Rourke wax inhabiting an uninhabitable dwelling?

Political Junkie said...

Never saw a Mickey Rourke movie. Thought the title Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man was intriguing, but supposedly the movie was terrible.

Temujin said...

The Pope of Greenwich Village has fallen so far. So far. He used to be The Man. He's so far from that now.

FormerLawClerk said...

This is your brain on drugs, kids.

Don't do drugs.

Money Manger said...

Absolutely incredible in Body Heat. Unlike Robert Downey Jr, he was never able to arrest the slide.

Saint Croix said...

I'm a fan of Barfly.

Leland said...

He didn’t get his bird.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Whose plastic surgery is the worst?
1. Mickey Rourke
2. Carrot Top
3. Vince McMahon

Saint Croix said...

My heart goes out to his manager.

Rourke’s manager, Kimberly Hines, said in an interview on Tuesday that the actor had been living in the Beverly Grove house for nearly a decade and that the new owner had purchased the property in 2024.

She said Rourke had been paying the rent until about six months ago “when the conditions became really unbearable.”

Rourke said in his social-media video that mice and rats had been in the house and that “the floor is rotten, one bathtub there’s no water, in two different sinks there was no water.”
Hines said the owner had declined her offer to pay two months’ rent to buy Rourke time.

She said that Rourke had contacted her on Saturday asking for assistance. The next day, Hines’s office set up a GoFundMe page, which has since raised more than $100,000.

“He knew that we were seeking help for him, but I don’t think he understood that it would become such a huge situation,” Hines said, adding that her office had created the page “in the spirit of helping Mickey in a very desperate situation.”

Saint Croix said...

The Drowning Man

Mary Beth said...

The Go Fund Me was a bad idea. It makes it look as though he couldn't pay rather than wouldn't pay until poor conditions were fixed. Was he transferring the normal rent money into an account to hold until the problems were fixed? The article doesn't mention that (and because of the Go Fund Me), so I assume the answer is "no".

CJinPA said...

Wilbur said...
Mickey Roarke? Yeah , he was good in those Andy Hardy movies.
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That was Mickey Dolenz, dummy.

Aggie said...

That he's been living in a rental house for a decade that has steadily fallen into ruin is, in a heartless way, an unsparing spotlight on his career and life. I hope he can right the ship. He's not my kind of actor or person, but I feel his embarrassment and am sorry for him. Good luck to him.

Achilles said...

If you are renting a house, and it is infested by rats and the floors are rotting out, the person renting the house to you wont want you in their house anymore because you are destroying it.

boatbuilder said...

That terrier is not doing his job.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

I don't know. I've come to believe Go Fund Me should be for real emergencies like hospitalization, an unexpected natural catastrophe. I just sent some money to the widow of an Uber driver that was killed/carjacked on new years day, near where I live and Uber drive. The cost of burial is expensive. It's just my opinion. Hopefully I will never have to resort to it.

Howard said...

He was fantastic in Body Heat and The Pope of Greenwich Village. It's kind of hard to believe it, but his co-star in Body Heat eat, Kathleen Turner, looks better than Mickey

Peachy said...

He spent his money on more plastic surgery. As a known dedicated Democrat - paying rent is for suckers.

Wince said...

To his credit, Mickey does not seem interested in embracing the "warmth of collectivism," at least for himself.

Meade said...

I enjoyed him in The Wrestler. Of course, that could’ve had more to with date who accompanied me.

Meade said...

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/01/10-thoughts-about-wrestler.html?m=1

Jaq said...

I miss when Hollywood made movies like "The Pope of Greenwich Village." Now we are in the age of pastiche, per one YouTube commenter, where who just present collages of art from the actual creative ages as "art" and a song has three samples or "interpolations" and 20 co-writers and the only thing new is the arrangement.

rehajm said...

that could’ve had more to with date who accompanied me.

rehajm said...

pro move kids…

Lazarus said...

If Javier Bardem can find work with that face, Mickey Rourke should be able to as well.

He was a very talented and watchable actor back in the day.

Eva Marie said...

Years ago I used to follow a homeless man’s blog. His blog header was a banner that read “I suck at life.” And he did.
He could be clearly competent - good writing when he managed to post - but the most basic, self-evident tasks of living were completely beyond him. Paying a bill on time, keeping an appointment, holding down even the simplest job, maintaining any kind of stability - it was beyond his capabilities. You’d read his posts and think, “Anyone could do this”. He couldn’t.
I wish Mickey Rourke had kept the money.

Yancey Ward said...
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Yancey Ward said...

Rourke was a very charismatic performer during the 1980s and 1990s with several memorable performances- really should have been an A-list actor but couldn't control well enough his chemical dependencies.

If the landlord won't fix the problems with the house, he should have moved out long ago or have them fixed himself and deduct the costs from the rent checks he had been sending in.

Paul said...

Mickey who?

Spiros said...

For a lot of successful and wealthy people, owning property doesn't make sense. It's a time sink. These people don't want to cut grass and call a HVAC guy when the heat goes out. By renting, they can free up time to spend on their careers.

But I have to say that these people have always been my worst tenants. They are awful and they are high maintenance. Plus they are snooty. These people treat contractors and men in the trades like garbage.

Anthony said...

You'd think he could coast for the rest of his life on the Iron Man 2 money alone. . . . .

Left Bank of the Charles said...


His rent was $7,200 a month per the Hollywood Reporter. The story purports to have a silver lining:

“The good thing about this is that he got four movie offers since yesterday. People are emailing him movie offers now, which is great because nobody’s been calling him for a long time.”

RCOCEAN II said...

There's a fine line between being an eccentric and being crazy. O'Rourke motored past that line years ago. No doubt in few years, he'll be in pearls and a dress.

Iman said...

Mickey has really “screwed the pooch” in life. But it’s his choice.

LH in Montana said...

The pink shirt, the little dog, and the little coffee cup aren't what I pictured when thinking of Mickey Rourke.

FullMoon said...

"LH in Montana said...
The pink shirt, the little dog, and the little coffee cup aren't what I pictured when thinking of Mickey Rourke."

Casually looking for long ago acquaintances on Facebook, came across the baddest guy in the the neighborhood. Aggressive Doberman Pinschers. In and out of county for violent offenses back in the day.
Now, pics of him, like Mickey, holding a miniature dog, and a flower garden in the back yard.
Lost all respect.

john mosby said...

For those of you who were planning to give to Mickey Rourke and now have a hole burning in your pocket, you could always make another donation to my legal defense fund. I just had two huge bills for my appellate brief and my response to my job's proposal for removal:

https://www.givesendgo.com/christy

CC, JSM

MadisonMan said...

after the home became uninhabitable

A very passive sentence. Exactly how did this happen? I wonder if the article explains it. I agree that if vermin are in the house, then the dog is failing. My own dog -- part terrier -- will kill any kind of rodent.

PM said...

Kids, take note.

RCOCEAN II said...

"Mickey has really “screwed the pooch” in life. But it’s his choice."

No one is demanding a judge supervise Mickey's life.

Saint Croix said...

Kill My Landlord

also known as Prose and Cons

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