Mickey Rourke has been officially evicted from his Los Angeles home by order of a California court.
Gladiator and Iron Man 2 The actor has been in a legal battle to stay at the Drexel Ave property. After the landlord filed an illegal detainer case claiming Rourke owed $59,100 in back rent. Earlier this week, a ruling was issued in favor of the landlord after the 73-year-old actor did not respond to the complaint, according to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”. the peoplewhich first reported the news, and the owner repossessed the property. However, Rourke had already moved out of the property, and was last reported to be living in a West Hollywood hotel while he waited for a new residence in Koreatown to become available.
The news comes on the heels of a bizarre turn of events in January regarding the former Oscar nominee, as his manager of nine years, Kimberly Hines, launched an emergency GoFundMe campaign to save Rourke from homelessness.
The fund had reached nearly $100,000 when Rourke responded to the efforts with an Instagram video in which the actor claimed he had no knowledge of the “insulting” public fundraiser to try to help him and said he would return any money donated to his fans. “If I needed money, I wouldn’t ask for any handouts,” Rourke said at the time. “I’d rather put a gun up my ass and pull the trigger… My life is so simple, I’m not going to go to outside sources like that.”
In an exclusive interview with Hollywood Reporter In January, his manager Heinz helped clarify the situation.
“A GoFundMe has been set up for Mickey,” Hines explained. “This money is going to Mickey. It’s not going to me. And if Mickey doesn’t want this money now and decides, ‘I don’t want to help, it’s more like charity,’ the money will be returned… We said, ‘Mickey, there are some people who want to help you.’ He’s like, ‘Okay, great.’
Haynes noted that Rourke does not manage his money well. The actor does not have a bank account, “carries no money”, tends to live paycheck to paycheck and is very generous with his friends.
“And he hasn’t made much money in the last two years, because he doesn’t want to give up [on his choice of roles]She added. “It’s great that so many people care because honestly the guy is spending Christmas alone. He spends his birthdays alone. Besides his assistant and manager, he has no one in his life. Maybe he should get this help, because unless he goes back to work, I can only fund him for so long.
In an interview with TMZ, Hines revealed that the actor refuses to work for less than $200,000 a day.
On an optimistic note, Haynes added that since news of his housing situation broke, the actor has received multiple offers for new roles.
Seth Abramovich contributed to this report
