Mickey Rourke is facing eviction from a three-bedroom Spanish bungalow in Los Angeles after falling nearly $60,000 behind on rent, a new lawsuit alleges.
The actor, who won a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of fading professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson in 2008’s The Wrestler, has failed to pay $59,100 on his lease, the landlord claims in the new filing obtained by Rolling Stone. Rourke, 73, initially rented the home for $5,200 in April 2025. The monthly rate was later raised to $7,000. The house is walking distance to the Farmer’s Market and the Grove shopping center, just south of West Hollywood.
Rourke, whose legal name is Philip Rourke Jr., was not at the property on Dec. 18 when someone attempted to reach him there, the filing states. As a result, a notice ordering him to pay the overdue rent within three days or vacate the premises was posted on the exterior of the home. Attempts to reach Rourke or his representatives on Tuesday were unsuccessful. The landlord, Eric Goldie, did not respond to a message left at the phone number listed in the court records.
The home, built in the 1920s, was previously occupied by Raymond Chandler, the British-American novelist who wrote The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, according to the Los Angeles Times. A case management hearing for the rental dispute is set for April 6 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Rourke gained acclaim for his role as a fast-talking hustler in Barry Levinson’s coming-of-age comedy Diner. He later starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish and 9 ½ Weeks with Kim Basinger. He also gained a reputation as being contentious and unpredictable, which he addressed during a 2008 interview with Los Angeles Times.
“I lost everything. My house, my wife, my credibility, my career,” he said. “I just all had all this anger from my childhood, which was really shame, not anger, and used it as armor and machismo to cover up my wounds. Unfortunately, the way I acted really frightened people, although it was really just me who was scared. But I was like this person who was short-circuited and I didn’t know how to fix myself.”
His work in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler was viewed as a comeback, even earning him an Oscar nomination. But more controversy followed. In April, around the same time he allegedly signed the rental lease, Rourke left Celebrity Big Brother UK due to inappropriate language and behavior that he later admitted. In one interaction involving Jojo Siwa, he stated, “If I stay longer than four days, you won’t be gay anymore.”
