The Beverly Grove house where Mickey Rourke lived until his eviction. (Hayes Davenport / L.A. Material)
LAST WEDNESDAY, four days before the Oscars, former Best Actor nominee Mickey Rourke was evicted from his home in Beverly Grove after an extended dispute with his landlord over unpaid rent.
The house, a short walk from the Academy Museum, is a red-orange Spanish 3BR/2BA that turns 100 this year. Rourke had been renting it for more than a decade: first for $5,200 a month when he signed the lease in March of 2015, and then up to $7,000 by the time of his eviction.
The rent owed according to the landlord, a lawyer in Encino named Eric T. Goldie who bought the house in 2022, was $59,100. Rourke was served a three-day notice to “pay or quit” in January.
Rourke’s manager, Kimberly Hines, helped set up a GoFundMe to raise the cash. It had brought in about $100,000 when Rourke posted a video to Instagram saying that he hadn’t been aware of the donation effort and wouldn’t accept any of the money. “I'd rather stick a gun up my ass and pull the trigger," he said — holding his dog Lucky, other dogs barking nearby.
It wasn’t the first time Rourke had found himself in a financial dispute with a property owner.
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