Mickey Rourke, who was hot in the late 80s and through the 90s, dropped off of our collective radar until he reemerged with the movie “Sin Cityâ€, for which nobody remembers him, as Jessica Alba spent the entirety of the film gyrating in leather. With the movie “The Wrestlerâ€, he was definitely back. Now, he’s been seen sucking face with beautiful women all over the globe, despite the fact that it looks like unlicensed plastic surgeons have been hacking away at him for years. Somehow, despite looking like an orange left out in the sun too long, he’s been attracting the babes like crazy.
Women Are On Him Like Flies On...Well...
Now he’s scored himself a Victoria’s Secret model. She was born at about the same time he was steaming up movie screens all over the planet in the movie “9 ½ Weeksâ€. It was the movie that made Kim Basinger a star and rang the first death knell of his career. But when Mickey Rourke reemerges, he does it with a big bang, so to speak. Since “The Wrestlerâ€, he has gone through women more often than he changes his underwear.Â
Okay, more often than clean people change their underwear.
The point is: he has let his fame draw women to him. But to see the same woman, twice, and within 2 weeks? This is a relationship in Mickey’s world. And the lucky lady? 24 year-old Eugenia Volodina, seen in both the Victoria’s Secret catalogs and in their runway shows. Evidently, while out together at the Bijoux Lounge in New York, the two made a vile series of displays of affection, oblivious to onlookers. They were photographed with their tongues down each other’s throats before they actually decided to lie down on the couch.
Ew.
Despite their obvious chemistry, Mickey has said that he will not settle down with just one woman until he finds someone who gives him the same “thunder and lightning†feeling that ex-wife Carre Otis did. Rourke and Otis exchanged wedding rings in 1992 and were married for 6 ½ years. Rourke says that he waited 10 years for her to come back. Alas, she never did, and he has been one a one-night-stand spree since. While carrying his young girlfriend around, his tattoo “Carre Forever†was on his left arm still, for all the world to see. Perhaps Eugenia hopes that she can be that “thunder and lightningâ€. More likely, she either hasn’t noticed the tattoo yet, or maybe can’t read that well in English.Â
Considering that she is already a 9 year modeling veteran (yes, that means she was wearing couture at age 15, ladies and gentlemen), having posed in campaigns for Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel, she is obviously not into Mickey for his money. Maybe she’s irresistibly drawn to those sexy white hair extensions. Maybe she likes the feel of leather, and his skin has taken on that texture by now.Â
Although their union defies explanation, so do many that occur in Hollywood. At least watching this one play itself out will be both gross AND entertaining.