Mickey Rourke is potentially facing eviction from his home in Los Angeles after he allegedly failed to pay nearly $60,000 in rent.
According to documents obtained by the Daily Mail that were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, Rouke, 73, was given a three-day notice on December 18 to pay up on his allegedly overdue rent or to vacate the premises.
At the time, Rourke owed $59,100, according to the complaint from plaintiff Eric T. Goldie.
The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Rourke, as well as Goldie’s attorney, but hasn’t yet heard back.
The lawsuit is the latest setback for the Angel Heart actor, after he was kicked out of the Celebrity Big Brother house earlier this year over ‘unacceptable language and behavior’ directed at his fellow housemate, JoJo Siwa.
Rourke (real name: Philip Rourke Jr.) has only been renting the three-bedroom home since March 30, when he signed a lease for $5,200 in rent per month.
Mickey Rourke is potentially facing eviction from his home in Los Angeles after he allegedly failed to pay $59,100 in rent, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail; pictured on Celebrity Big Brother
On December 18, Rourke was given a notice to pay the rent or move out within three days, but he has allegedly failed to pay up; pictured in 2017 in LA
The lawsuit indicates that the monthly rent on the 2.5-bathroom home was later raised to $7,000 beginning in Rourke’s second month of occupancy.
Rourke’s rented home has a major connection to early 20th-century Los Angeles history, as the house — which was constructed in 1926 — was occupied in the 1940s by the influential crime novelist Raymond Chandler, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The house is also centrally located in Los Angeles’ Beverly Grove neighborhood, just south of West Hollywood and only blocks away from the popular Grove outdoor shopping center and the neighboring Farmer’s Market.
According to the complaint, Rourke wasn’t home when someone attempted to give him the three-day notice on December 18, so the document was posted outside the house.
In addition to the $59,100 that Rourke allegedly owes in back rent, Goldie is also seeking to have the Iron Man II actor pay his attorney fees and to end the lease, which would presumably prevent Rourke from continuing to live at the house even if he did pay up.
In April, Rourke’s brief stint in the Celebrity Big Brother house came to an unexpected end when he was kicked off the show after making homophobic comments directed at JoJo Siwa, 22.
In one episode, the Rumble Fish actor referred to Siwa’s sexuality and said that he would ‘vote the lesbian out real quick.’
After Rourke was called out for his plans to vote out Siwa, he took advantage of British slang by saying, ‘I need a f*g,’ as if referring to a cigarette, before he gestured to Siwa and added, ‘I’m not talking to you.’
The landlord is also seeking to have Rourke pay his attorney fees, according to his complaint; Rourke is pictured in 2008 in Antalya, Turkey
His real estate problems come after he was booted from the Celebrity Big Brother house in April after making homophobic comments directed at JoJo Siwa; pictured on the series
Rourke was once a Hollywood heartthrob on top of the industry in the 1980s, but he left acting in the early ’90s to pursue boxing. The injuries he sustained required reconstructive surgery and drastically changed his appearance; pictured circa 1989
After making his comeback with the acclaimed drama The Wrestler in 2008, Rourke went on to play the main villain in Iron Man 2 (2010; pictured), but subsequent roles were primarily in low-budget films that attracted little attention
Fans of the show branded Rourke a ‘homophobe’ on social media over his comments, including an incident in which he left Siwa in tears by claiming that he would be able to ‘make her straight.’
Rourke was once a Hollywood heartthrob who established himself as an in-demand leading man in films including Diner (1982), Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish (1983), 9 1/2 Weeks (1986) and Angel Heart (1987).
But in the early 1990s, Rourke retreated from acting after a string of underperforming films and instead pursued an earlier passion, boxing.
The punishing physical nature of the sport left Rourke with serious injuries requiring reconstructive surgery, which significantly changed his appearance and ended any chance of returning to his status as a popular romantic lead.
Rourke continued to act in smaller roles after giving up boxing in 1994.
He made a comeback in 2008 with the title role in Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Wrestler, in which he played a washed-up professional wrestler trying to hold on to what career he had left while trying to revive his floundering relationship with his daughter.
The film was a hit with critics and won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, while Rourke received a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for his role, as well as an Oscar nomination.
After the success of The Wrestler, Rourke went on to play the villain Whiplash in Iron Man 2, though most of his subsequent films with low-budget films that received little attention.
