{"id":606665,"date":"2026-02-21T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/606665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:29:12","slug":"eric-danes-friend-defends-gofundme-after-actors-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/606665\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Dane&#8217;s Friend Defends GoFundMe After Actor&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/eric-dane\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eric-dane\" data-tag=\"eric-dane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Dane<\/a>, the actor\u2019s friends have set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gofundme\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gofundme\" data-tag=\"gofundme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> to support his daughters, but some have met the gesture with criticism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe late Euphoria star\u2019s friend Mike McGuiness explained why he started the crowdfunding campaign as he shared some heartfelt memories from a recent trip they took to Toyko before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cCovid and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/als\/\" id=\"auto-tag_als\" data-tag=\"als\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALS<\/a> did a number on his work life and he sadly couldn\u2019t leave his family with the resources he had hoped,\u201d wrote McGuiness in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU_9ks2DdT5\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">caption<\/a>. \u201cA GoFundMe is being made and I will post it on my story for anyone able to help. Love the ones you\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcGuinness also wrote in part, \u201cMy friend of almost two decades just left us after a brutal battle with ALS. I\u2019m the positive spin guy and can come up with something hopeful in most any situation. This one broke me. I had nothing to say, it\u2019s about as hopeless an affliction one could get. I truly don\u2019t know if I could muster grace or dignity in that spot. Eric did. Candidly, I didn\u2019t know he had it in him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeeking to raise $250,000, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-honor-of-eric-dane\">GoFundMe<\/a> has surpassed $187K as of Saturday morning, with Sam Levinson, Alyssa Milano and Randall Emmett donating. The Euphoria creator and wife Ashley Levinson were to top donors, contributing $27,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe campaign notes funds will be used \u201cto support his girls and their future needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThey continued, \u201cAny contribution, no matter the size, will help provide stability during this incredibly difficult time and in the future for Eric\u2019s wonderful daughters. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKnown for his roles on Euphoria and Grey\u2019s Anatomy, Dane\u2019s family <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/eric-dane-dies-53-1236730284\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced that he died<\/a> on Thursday, after he <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/eric-dane-als-1236366193\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">revealed his ALS diagnosis<\/a> last April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDane is survived by actress wife Rebecca Gayheart and their two daughters, Billie and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the death of Eric Dane, the actor\u2019s friends have set up a GoFundMe to support his daughters,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":606666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[36528,171,13135,12507,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-606665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-als","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-dane","tag-gofundme","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606665","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=606665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}