Mickey Rourke Says There's Still $90,000 to Be Refunded from 'Embarrassing' GoFundMe Effort to Prevent His Eviction
- - Mickey Rourke Says There's Still $90,000 to Be Refunded from 'Embarrassing' GoFundMe Effort to Prevent His Eviction
Becca LongmireJanuary 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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Mickey Rourke has said there's still $90,000 that needs to be refunded to fans as he continues to slam a GoFundMe page that was created to help prevent him from being evicted
The actor said that over $100,000 had been raised "by concerned strangers and others" on the fundraiser, adding that his attorney was "doing everything in his power" to give the money back
Rourke's manager previously said that the GoFundMe had been created with the former wrestler's full permission
Mickey Rourke says there's still $90,000 that needs to be refunded from a GoFundMe campaign that was launched to help prevent him from being evicted.
On Thursday, Jan. 15, Rourke, 73, shared a series of posts on Instagram, and said that he's "sooo upset" about the fundraiser, which he called a "scam."
Rourke added that over $100,000 had been raised "by concerned strangers and others" on the GoFundMe page, and said that his attorney was "doing everything in his power" to give the money back.
"Truthfully there is still over [$90,000] that still needs to be refunded to concerned [parties] that sent [their] money," the actor and former wrestler wrote. He urged fans to send his friend Eric Dane — who exclusively told PEOPLE in April of last year that he'd been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — "strong prayers" instead.
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The Wrestler star wrote in another Instagram post, “Vicious cruel godamm lie to hustle money using my [f---ing] name so [motherf---ing embarassing],” adding that there will be "severe repercussions" to the "individual who did this very bad thing to me."
As previously reported by PEOPLE earlier this month, Rourke was served a notice in December to pay $59,100 in back rent he allegedly owes or vacate his Los Angeles property within three days. The crowdfunding drive was then started to "help cover immediate housing-related expenses" and "prevent" him from losing his home.
In a video shared to his Instagram profile on Jan. 5, Rourke addressed the campaign and claimed he had no knowledge of it.
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Mickey Rourke addressing his GoFundMe via Instagram on Jan. 5, 2026
He said he was "frustrated," "confused" and didn't understand why someone created a GoFundMe campaign on his behalf.
"That's not me, okay?" he continued at the time. "I'd rather, if I needed money, I wouldn't ask for no f---ing charity. I'd rather stick a gun up my ass and pull the trigger."
Referencing "whoever did this," Rourke added, "I wouldn't know what a GoFundMe foundation is in a million years. My life is very simple, I wouldn't go to outside sources like that."
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The campaign was started by a woman named Liya-Joelle Jones, who described herself as the assistant to Kimberly Hines, who is Rourke's manager. She said in the GoFundMe that it was "created with Mickey’s full permission."
When asked about Rourke's latest social media posts, Hines told PEOPLE in an email on Friday, Jan. 16, "We have given the green light and proper documentation to facilitate all money being returned to donors." She added that she's been paying the actor's cable bill and bringing him movie offers which he "passes on while while he relentlessly holds out for A level opportunities."
"I will continue to be loyal and resilient as I believe in his enormous talent," Hines added to PEOPLE in the email.
Hines previously told The Hollywood Reporter in a story published on Jan. 6 that the fundraiser was created for the actor by his team and that all proceeds would go to him. She also admitted that while they informed the actor of it, he may not have fully understood what was happening at the time.
“We said, ‘Mickey, there’s some people that want to help you out.’ He’s like, ‘Okay, great.’ I don’t think he understood, and now it’s taken on this media frenzy, and he flipped out,” Hines told THR.
“Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey,” she added. “I want him working. I don’t want him doing a GoFundMe.”
She said at the time that his team had “moved him out of his house” and “put him up” in a West Hollywood hotel, adding that she was “financing his move and the hotel and the movers and his storage.”
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Hines insisted to the outlet that the Iron Man 2 actor should consider taking the money.
“Besides his assistant and his manager, he’s got nobody in his life,” she said. “He should probably take this help, because unless he goes back to work, I can only finance him for so long. I’m not a Getty. I’m a working woman.”
She said that the people on Rourke’s team are “all here to help [him] and get him back on his feet, get him back to work, get him back making movies and telling stories and creating characters and being the Mickey Rourke that we all have known and love. That’s my goal.”
“If Mickey doesn’t want this help from people that want to support him and his fans, then that money will be returned,” Hines added at the time.
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