Fund raisers for celebrities? Actor needs $60,000 in back rent

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Fund raisers for celebrities? Actor Mickey Rourke needs $60,000 in back rent for a $7,000 a month rental to avoid eviction

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/go...-legend-mickey-rourke-amid-possible-eviction/

I'm sorry I can't garner up that much sympathy for him. I''d be more willing to donate to one of those actually homeless actors living on the street than keep an old celebrity in luxury living. But people have donated over $20,000 so far.
 

WhatInThe said:
Fund raisers for celebrities? Actor Mickey Rourke needs $60,000 in back rent for a $7,000 a month rental to avoid eviction

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/go...-legend-mickey-rourke-amid-possible-eviction/

I'm sorry I can't garner up that much sympathy for him. I''d be more willing to donate to one of those actually homeless actors living on the street than keep an old celebrity in luxury living. But people have donated over $20,000 so far.
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perhaps he should do the same as the rest of the population and live where he can afford.....
 
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1. I do occasionally help individuals, but it is always local and someone I know ā€”- like the neighboring farmer who flipped his tractor and broke his back, years ago. I anonymously caught his water bill up.

2. I often give to local animal rescues, including horse rescues that I know are 501(c)3.

3. Famous people who are ā€œlegends in their own mindsā€, need to step down, and find something to do to pay the rent. And how did you end up having to rent anyway??

Nupe. Mom always taught me that charity starts at home and work my way out from there. I doubt that ā€œfrom thereā€ will ever go any further than local animal rescues, farmers in need, or St. Judeā€™sā€¦ā€¦..
 
The people who donate to someone who clearly could not handle the money he made during his " 15 minutes" of fame are not that bright, Alcohol and drugs sucked all his money.
I do not feel sorry for those who do not handle their money knowing fame and earning potential fades quickly in show business. Especially when they are a c or d list actor.
 
It dawned on me if all these people that are donating these stupid amounts of money to Mickey Rourke, they ought to be donating it to Cameron Mathison.

Cameron Mathison not only lost everything in the Eaton fire in January 2025, but was also diagnosed and fighting prostate cancer while losing his home. His home burned cleared to the ground. He escaped literally with only the clothes on his back during that fire.

According to news links, he has had a lot of help from family and friends, which is a good thing. I am pretty sure he was smart enough to live his life pretty much the right way and have ā€”- oh whatā€™s that thing called when you have a lot of possessions that you hope you can get them replaced. Oh yeah wait thatā€™s called insurance. He had money to buy insurance, even if it wonā€™t cover things that are memories more than valuables.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...-after-losing-home-la-fire/story?id=117499094
 
It would be interesting to know why people donate to fund raisers like this. Maybe people are more generous these days, maybe it is because he is well known or maybe they just feel sorry for him. I certainly would not donate.

I read in one of the online papers that he signed a lease for five thousand a month and, by the second month the owner had raised the figure to seven thousand. If that's true, I wouldn't blame someone if they refused to pay the additional sum. I always thought that if you signed a contract then it can't be changed unless you sign a new agreement. The report also said that, even if Mickey Rourke raises the full amount and pays his back rent that the owner still wants him out so, perhaps there are concerns that the property isn't being looked after.
 
Well now this changes things! Looks as if it was done without consulting him. Who *is* this person who started it, and where's the money *really* going?! I think he needs to contact GFM and perhaps have them return donations? EDIT: It's one of his managers who said it was done with his permission but he knows nothing about it, according to him. :rolleyes:

Mickey Rourke Denounces GoFundMe to Stop His Eviction: ā€œItā€™s Humiliatingā€
 
CallMeKate said:
Well now this changes things! Looks as if it was done without consulting him. Who *is* this person who started it, and where's the money *really* going?! I think he needs to contact GFM and perhaps have them return donations? EDIT: It's one of his managers who said it was done with his permission but he knows nothing about it, according to him. :rolleyes:

Mickey Rourke Denounces GoFundMe to Stop His Eviction: ā€œItā€™s Humiliatingā€
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I wonder what will happen now!

In the Guardian on Monday, it reported that:

Mickey Rourke has turned to fundraising to pay the US$59,100 (Ā£44,000, A$89,000) he allegedly owes in rent, after being sued by his landlord and facing eviction from his Los Angeles home.​
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The 73-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for his performance in the 2008 drama The Wrestler, has approved a GoFundMe page launched by Liya-Joelle Jones, a friend and member of Rourkeā€™s management team. At time of writing, the fundraiser had raised US$33,000 of its US$100,000 goal.​
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ā€œMickey is going through a very difficult time right now, and itā€™s been incredibly touching to see how many people care about him and want to help,ā€ Jones told the Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.​
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Jones wrote on GoFundMe that the fundraiser was ā€œcreated with Mickeyā€™s full permission to help cover immediate housing-related expenses and prevent that from happeningā€.​
 
Trish said:
It would be interesting to know why people donate to fund raisers like this.
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I wonder about that with all sorts of go fund me appeals.

Iā€™ve donated to a couple where I know the people and the backstory.

I see many where it seems to me that people are more or less begging for assistance with basic day to day expenses that we all have had to deal with at one time or another.

Itā€™s a different world. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
 
Years ago down on their luck celebrities like Jane Mansfield and Johnny Weissmuller ended their days as greeters in LasVegas casinos.

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