{"id":512821,"date":"2026-01-13T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/512821\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:29:11","slug":"mickey-rourke-surrenders-shotgun-to-sheriff-amid-eviction-woes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/512821\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke Surrenders Shotgun To Sheriff Amid Eviction Woes: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 Actor Mickey Rourke \u2014 who is facing eviction due to unpaid rent at his Los Angeles home \u2014 has surrendered a shotgun to sheriff&#8217;s deputies. He told authorities he would soon be leaving the area and no longer wanted the firearm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/entertainment\/entertainment-news\/actor-mickey-rourke-shotgun\/3829397\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Los Angeles reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department deputies on Wednesday were dispatched following a call from one of Rourke&#8217;s team members, who said the actor wanted to turn in the shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>They met Rourke and took possession of the shotgun for what&#8217;s called safekeeping: If he doesn&#8217;t retrieve the gun after a year, it will be destroyed, according to the station.<\/p>\n<p>Rourke received a three-day notice to pay rent or vacate his Los Angeles home on Dec. 18. At that time, he owed $59,100. By the end of the month, he failed to comply with the notice, prompting his landlord to file to evict him, the Los Angeles Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-mickey-to-prevent-eviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe for Rourke launched last week<\/a>; since then it has surpassed its $100,000 goal. That <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/los-angeles\/mickey-rourke-rejects-fundraiser-stave-eviction-slams-scumbag-landlord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompted Rourke to sound off on social media<\/a>, where he said he would reject the money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I needed money, I wouldn&#8217;t ask for no f\u2014ing charity,&#8221; he said in an Instagram video, adding he&#8217;d rather die than ask for charity.<\/p>\n<p>Later that week, the GoFundMe indicated that donations have been paused. His manager Kimberly Hines \u2014 who was behind the fundraiser \u2014 provided an update on the site on Jan. 8:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We remain committed to finding a resolution and are working with Mickey to determine the next steps,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Rourke said in his Instagram video that he&#8217;s &#8220;done a really terrible job in managing my career.&#8221; He said he&#8217;s had to borrow money from a friend during the entertainment industry downturns amid the pandemic and writers strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 Actor Mickey Rourke \u2014 who is facing eviction due to unpaid rent at his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":512822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-512821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115887090262135702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}