Actor Mickey Rourke faces eviction from his Los Angeles residence after failing to pay lease.
Rourke, whose start title is Philip Andre Rourke Jr., acquired a three-day discover to pay lease or vacate the premises on Dec. 18 and had didn’t comply, based on courtroom paperwork filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket on Monday.
On the time of the discover, he owed $59,100 in unpaid lease.
A consultant for Rourke didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In March, Rourke signed a lease for the three-bedroom, 2.5-bath home for $5,200 a month; it was subsequently raised to $7,000 a month, states the courtroom filings.
A Zillow itemizing describes the property as a “nicely upgraded Spanish bungalow” in-built 1926. Raymond Chandler was stated to have resided there for 2 years within the Nineteen Forties.
The property’s proprietor, Eric Gold, is requesting compensation for lawyer‘s fees and for damages. A lawyer for Gold was unavailable for comment.
A former boxer, Rourke, 73, turned to acting with small roles in the 1980 film “Heaven’s Gate” and “Body Heat” a yr later, earlier than incomes popularity of his function in 1982’s “Diner.”
After a slate of main roles in plenty of motion pictures together with “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “9 1/2 Weeks” and “Rumble Fish,” Rourke‘s film career took a nosedive, with his off-screen antics frequently overshadowing his acting.
“I lost everything. My house, my wife, my credibility, my career,” he told The Times in an interview in 2008. “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 tips on how to repair myself.”
In 2005 he reemerged with the neo-noir motion thriller “Sin City.”
Three years later, Rourke’s portrayal of growing older, washed up wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson, within the Darren Aronofsky movie “The Wrestler,” earned him a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for lead actor.
Rourke’s return to the large display screen has not been a wholly easy trip.
In April, he agreed to exit “Celebrity Big Brother UK” after producers warned him over the usage of “inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behavior,” based on a press release a spokesperson for the present launched on the time.
His remarks allegedly included feedback about JoJo Siwa’s sexuality
