Editing Mickey Rooney (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Mickey Rooney (2000).jpg|thumb|right|Rooney and his wife Jan at a Beverly Hills military concert in 2000]]
At the time of his death (April 6, 2014), Rooney was married to his eighth wife, Jan Chamberlin Rooney, although they had separated in June 2012.<ref name="Jan Rooney Contests">{{cite news|last=Duke|first=Alan|title=Mickey Rooney's widow contests late actor's will|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/08/showbiz/mickey-rooney-will|access-date=January 27, 2015|publisher=CNN|date=May 11, 2014}}</ref> He had 9 children and 2 stepchildren, as well as 19 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.<ref name=People-obit>{{cite web | access-date=September 3, 2019 | url=https://people.com/celebrity/mickey-rooney-dies/ | title=Mickey Rooney Dies at 93 | date=April 6, 2014 | website=People}}</ref><ref name=guardian>{{cite web | last=Beller | first=Kimberly | title=Breaking News: Legendary Actor Mickey Rooney Dead at 93 | website=Guardian Liberty Voice | date=April 7, 2014 | url=https://guardianlv.com/2014/04/breaking-news-legendary-actor-mickey-rooney-dead-at-93/ | access-date=September 3, 2019}}</ref>

Rooney had [[bipolar disorder]] and had attempted suicide two or three times over the years, with resulting hospitalizations reported as "nervous breakdowns".<ref name=THR/> He also had been addicted to sleeping pills, and overcame the addiction in 2000 when he was in his late 70s.<ref name="Vanity Fair – April 7, 2014" /> In February 1997, he was arrested on suspicion of beating his wife, Jan, but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.<ref name="Rooney arrested 1997">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-12-me-37301-story.html|title=Rooney Won't Be Charged With Abuse|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 12, 1997|access-date=May 19, 2014|author=Wilson, Tracy}}</ref>

In the late 1970s, Rooney became a born-again Christian and was a fan of [[Pat Robertson]].<ref>{{cite news | access-date=September 3, 2019 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/23/arts/the-zany-new-world-of-mickey-rooney.html | title=The Zany New World of Mickey Rooney | work=The New York Times | date=August 23, 1981 | issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[File:Mickey Rooney 2006.jpg|thumb|right|Rooney in 2006]]
On February 16, 2011, Rooney was granted a temporary restraining order against his stepson Christopher Aber and Aber's wife Christina, and they were ordered to stay 100 yards from Rooney, his stepson Mark Rooney, and Mark's wife Charlene.<ref name=HR>{{cite web | title=A Star Is Burned: Mickey Rooney's Final Days Marred by Bizarre Family Feud | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=April 9, 2014 | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/mickey-rooneys-final-days-marred-694716 | access-date=September 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12466486|title=Mickey Rooney granted restraining order against stepson|publisher=BBC|date=February 16, 2011|access-date=January 16, 2012}}</ref> Rooney claimed that he was a victim of [[elder abuse]].<ref name="Feinberg 4-9-14">{{cite news|last=Feinberg|first=Scott|title=A Star Is Burned: Mickey Rooney's Final Days Marred by Bizarre Family Feud|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/mickey-rooneys-final-days-marred-694716|access-date=April 9, 2014|newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 9, 2014}}</ref> On March 2, 2011, Rooney appeared before a special U.S. Senate committee that was considering legislation to curb elder abuse, testifying about the abuse he claimed to have suffered at the hands of family members.<ref name=HR /> In 2011, all of Rooney's finances were permanently handed over to a conservator,<ref name="BBC-lawyer controls">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12874412|title=Mickey Rooney lawyer to control finances|publisher=BBC|date=March 27, 2011|access-date=January 16, 2012}}</ref> who called Rooney "completely competent".<ref name="Feinberg 4-9-14" />

In April 2011, the temporary restraining order that Rooney was previously granted was replaced by a confidential settlement between Rooney and Aber.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tmz.com/2011/04/06/mickey-rooney-chris-aber-restraining-order-tro-settlement-stepson-fortune-steal|title=Mickey Rooney drops restraining order against stepson|publisher=TMZ|date=February 15, 2011|access-date=January 16, 2012}}</ref> Aber and Jan Rooney denied all the allegations.<ref>{{cite web | access-date=September 3, 2019| url=http://www.aarp.org/relationships/caregiving/info-03-2011/mickey-rooney-claims-elder-abuse.html | title=Mickey Rooney Claims Elder Abuse, Testifies Before Senate Committee |year=2011 | website=AARP Bulletin | last1=Fleck | first1=Carole }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M.|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20470562,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306160339/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20470562,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 6, 2011|title=Mickey Rooney: 'Elder Abuse Made Me Feel Trapped'|work=People|date=March 3, 2011|access-date=January 16, 2012}}</ref>

In May 2013, Rooney sold his home of many years, reportedly for $1.3&nbsp;million, and split the proceeds with his wife, Jan.<ref name="CNN-4-7-14" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Hetherman|first=Bill|title=Mickey Rooney's home to be sold for $1.3M to West Hills firm|url=http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20130304/mickey-rooneys-home-to-be-sold-for-13m-to-west-hills-firm|newspaper=Daily Breeze|date=March 3, 2013}}</ref>

=== Marriages ===
Rooney was married eight times, with six of the unions ending in divorce; his eighth and final marriage lasted longer than the previous seven put together. During the 1960s and 1970s he was often the subject of comedians' jokes over his apparent inability to stay married. In 1942, he married his first wife, actress [[Ava Gardner]], who at that time was still an obscure teenaged starlet. They divorced the following year, partly because of his alleged infidelity.<ref name="THR" /> While stationed in the military in Alabama in 1944, Rooney met and married Betty Jane Phillips, who later became a singer under the name [[B. J. Baker]]. They had two sons together. This marriage ended in divorce after he returned from Europe at the end of World War II. His marriage to actress [[Martha Vickers]] in 1949 produced one son, but ended in divorce in 1951. He married actress [[Elaine Devry|Elaine Mahnken]] in 1952, and they divorced in 1958.<ref name=People-obit /><ref name=guardian />

In 1958, Rooney married model and actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell), they had four children. She was murdered in 1966 by stuntman and actor [[Milos Milos]] (at the time bodyguard for French actor [[Alain Delon]]) who then shot himself. Thomason and Milos had an affair while Rooney was traveling, and police theorized that Milos had shot her after she wanted to end it.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14799211/mickey_rooneys_wifemurder_suicide/|title=Mickey Rooney's Wife Murder-Suicide Victim|date=February 1, 1966|work=The Charleston Daily Mail|page=1|access-date=October 31, 2017|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref> Rooney then married Barbara's best friend, Marge Lane, though the marriage lasted only 100 days. He was married to Carolyn Hockett from 1969 to 1975, they had two children.<ref name=People-obit /> In 1978, he married his eighth and final wife, Jan Chamberlin. Their marriage lasted until his death, a total of 34 years (longer than his seven previous unions combined). However, they separated in 2012.<ref name="Jan Rooney Contests" />

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Wives !! Years !! Children
|-
| [[Ava Gardner]]
| 1942–1943
|
|-
| rowspan=1 | [[Betty Jane Rase]] (née Phillips)
| rowspan=1 | 1944–1949
| 2, [[Mickey Rooney, Jr.]] and [[Tim Rooney]]
|-
| [[Martha Vickers]]
| 1949–1951
| 1, Teddy<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/teddy-rooney-dead-mickey-rooneys-908325 |title=Teddy Rooney, a Former Child Actor and a Son of Mickey Rooney, Dies at 66 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=July 4, 2016 |access-date=June 18, 2017}}</ref>
|-
| [[Elaine Devry]]<br/>(a.k.a.: Elaine Davis)
| 1952–1958
|
|-
| rowspan="1" | Barbara Ann Thomason<br/>(a.k.a.: Tara Thomas, Carolyn Mitchell)
| rowspan="1" | 1958–1966
|4, Kelly Ann, Kerry, [[Michael Rooney|Michael Joseph Rooney]] and Kimmy Sue
|-
| Marge Lane
| 1966–1967
|
|-
| rowspan="1" | Carolyn Hockett
| rowspan="1" | 1969–1975
| 2, Jimmy and Jonelle
|-
| Jan Chamberlin
| 1978–2014<br/>(separated, June 2012)<ref name="Jan Rooney Contests"/>
|
|}

=== Death ===
[[File:Mickey Rooney Grave.JPG|thumb|right|Grave and Crypt of Mickey Rooney at Hollywood Forever Cemetery]]
Rooney died of [[natural causes]] (including complications from [[diabetes]]) in [[Studio City, Los Angeles, California]], on April 6, 2014,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-mickey-rooney-20140407,0,5338354.story?page=1|title=Mickey Rooney dies at 93; show-business career spanned a lifetime|first=Valerie J.|last=Nelson|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=April 6, 2014}}</ref> at the age of 93.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/04/08/rooney-estate-stepson/7486121/ |title=After 80-year career, Mickey Rooney estate: $18K |agency=Associated Press |date=April 9, 2014 |access-date=August 11, 2018 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] }}</ref> A group of family members and friends, including [[Mickey Rourke]], held a memorial service on April 18. A private funeral, organized by another set of family members, was held at [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]], where he was interred, on April 19. His eight surviving children said in a statement that they were barred from seeing Rooney during his final years.<ref name="Daily News – funeral">{{cite news|last=Durkin|first=Erin|title=Mickey Rooney laid to rest in private funeral at Hollywood Forever Cemetery|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/mickey-rooney-laid-rest-article-1.1762590|access-date=April 22, 2014|newspaper=Daily News|location=New York|date=April 20, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Funeral – LATimes – 4-19">{{cite news|last=Stevens|first=Matt|title=Mickey Rooney funeral set for today at Hollywood Forever|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mickey-rooney-funeral-20140419,0,4496797.story|access-date=April 20, 2014|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 19, 2014}}</ref><ref name=Express-4-13-14>{{cite news|last=Parker|first=Mike|title=Mickey Rooney died too poor to pay for his own Hollywood funeral|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/470170/Mickey-Rooney-died-too-poor-to-pay-for-his-own-Hollywood-funeral|access-date=April 19, 2014|newspaper=Daily Express|date=April 13, 2014}}</ref>

At his death, ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' called Rooney "the original Hollywood train wreck".<ref name="Vanity Fair – April 7, 2014">{{cite magazine|last1=Sales|first1=Nancy Jo|title=Mickey Rooney Blew Through Wives and Fortunes, but God, What a Talent!|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/mickey-rooney-nancy-jo-sales|access-date=January 27, 2015|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=April 7, 2014}}</ref> Despite earning millions during his career, he had to file for bankruptcy in 1962 due to mismanagement of his finances. In his later years, Rooney had entrusted his finances to his stepson, who funneled Rooney's earnings to pay for his own lavish lifestyle. His millions in earnings had dwindled to an estate that was valued at only $18,000. He died owing medical bills and back taxes, and contributions were solicited from the public.<ref name=LAT-burial-4-8-14>{{cite news|title=Mickey Rooney's body goes unclaimed as family feuds over burial site|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-mickey-rooney-20140409,0,589697.story|access-date=April 10, 2014|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 8, 2014|author=Kim, Victoria|author2=Ryan, Harriet}}</ref><ref name="Rooney website-appeal for funds">{{cite web|title=The Official Mickey Rooney Site|url=http://mickeyrooney.com|access-date=April 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609203621/http://mickeyrooney.com/|archive-date=June 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>