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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. We’ve now lost James Van der Beek, Robert Duvall, and Eric Dane all within a freaking week.

And what about Jesse Jackson? Did you forget him?

If you consider Jesse Jackson to be an entertainment figure, then you don't understand his legacy at all. This is the entertainment forum.

-POC

Simply mentioning that he also passed does not indicate that PP thinks he's an entertainment figure. Get a clue.

Are you crazy? The point is we were talking about entertainment icons that passed. Which is the point of this forum. PP brought it up as if the previous poster had done something wrong in not talking about him. So bringing up the context makes perfect sense. You get a clue.

+1,000

He was so great as Mark Sloan. I read he was only supposed to be in one episode, but he was such a fan favorite that they wrote him into the show. He was so handsome but also just so funny in that role. You had to laugh when he got that twinkle in his eye and said something terrible.

Anonymous wrote:This is an essay by Rebecca published on December 29, 2025. It is long and worth reading. She talks about their complicated relationship, how they have handled things with their daughters, the reality of managing Eric's care, and she really paints a picture of their reality.

https://archive.ph/oOgsX

Wow there's a lot of wisdom in there. Thanks for sharing.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the folks criticizing the Van Der Beeks’ Go Fund Me make their way to this thread. Eric Dane has one now and he’s worth $7 million.

I suspect his wife will step in and divert the funds to ALS research. I doubt she started the campaign.

His wife’s boyfriend is worth $800 million. She doesn’t need the money.

A boyfriend is not a plan.

Asking your billionaire boyfriend for a few mill to help your kids is a waaay better plan than begging regular people.

How do you know she didn't?

This is an essay by Rebecca published on December 29, 2025. It is long and worth reading. She talks about their complicated relationship, how they have handled things with their daughters, the reality of managing Eric's care, and she really paints a picture of their reality.

https://archive.ph/oOgsX

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the folks criticizing the Van Der Beeks’ Go Fund Me make their way to this thread. Eric Dane has one now and he’s worth $7 million.

I suspect his wife will step in and divert the funds to ALS research. I doubt she started the campaign.

His wife’s boyfriend is worth $800 million. She doesn’t need the money.

A boyfriend is not a plan.

Asking your billionaire boyfriend for a few mill to help your kids is a waaay better plan than begging regular people.

But nobody knows who started this thing. In the age of social media, it's easy for people to get hit by the good idea fairy and then hit "post." I doubt his widow is overly worried about the optics of a GFM right now. Have yall seen pics of her the past year? She's aged 10 years. She was stepping in and doing caregiving, fighting with their insurance company, taking the kids everywhere, and just dealing with the emotional stress of it all.

Who knows what her relationship with her boyfriend is like. I would assume she spent the bulk of the past year helping Eric and the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the folks criticizing the Van Der Beeks’ Go Fund Me make their way to this thread. Eric Dane has one now and he’s worth $7 million.

I suspect his wife will step in and divert the funds to ALS research. I doubt she started the campaign.

His wife’s boyfriend is worth $800 million. She doesn’t need the money.

A boyfriend is not a plan.

Asking your billionaire boyfriend for a few mill to help your kids is a waaay better plan than begging regular people.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. We’ve now lost James Van der Beek, Robert Duvall, and Eric Dane all within a freaking week.

And what about Jesse Jackson? Did you forget him?

If you consider Jesse Jackson to be an entertainment figure, then you don't understand his legacy at all. This is the entertainment forum.

-POC

Simply mentioning that he also passed does not indicate that PP thinks he's an entertainment figure. Get a clue.

Are you crazy? The point is we were talking about entertainment icons that passed. Which is the point of this forum. PP brought it up as if the previous poster had done something wrong in not talking about him. So bringing up the context makes perfect sense. You get a clue.

Residuals are no longer very lucrative because of streaming, the online net worth speculations are based on known salary and guessing at expenses, and ALS requires round the clock care.

Eric Danes had other diseases before ALS: depression and addiction. He sought treatment for them repeatedly. The Last Ship paused because he was suffering a severe bout of depression. I am sure there were high costs associated with the treatment.

His dad was an alcoholic and died when Eric was 7. It was reported as an accident but widely believed to be suicide. He had sports injuries that interfered with his life and contributed to his addiction. In his first interview following his ALS diagnosis one of the things he said (paraphrasing) was that he never had a problem that other people created, that he was responsible for everything that made his life harder. He had every reason to be bitter but he was always grateful, kind and supportive of others.

He isn't here to have anything to say about the GFM, and I don't think Rebecca's boyfriend should be assumed to be responsible to provide for her daughters. I think the existence of GFM is a sign of a sick society. I don't have any judgment about those who donate or those who don't. and it feels wrong to have the anti-donation narrative in a memorial thread when quite obviously he didn't create it. Maybe we should have a general thread about celeb GFMs.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. We’ve now lost James Van der Beek, Robert Duvall, and Eric Dane all within a freaking week.

And what about Jesse Jackson? Did you forget him?

If you consider Jesse Jackson to be an entertainment figure, then you don't understand his legacy at all. This is the entertainment forum.

-POC

Simply mentioning that he also passed does not indicate that PP thinks he's an entertainment figure. Get a clue.

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Anonymous wrote:The Go Fund Me is ridiculous. It’s in very poor taste.

It also makes GFM look bad. If I worked at GFM I would require celebrities to prove they are broke.

A lot of GFM are stupid and frivolous. GFM doesn't care.

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Anonymous wrote:The Go Fund Me is ridiculous. It’s in very poor taste.

It also makes GFM look bad. If I worked at GFM I would require celebrities to prove they are broke.

You can do a private campaign too. Idk why it wasn't distributed in that way (if it had to be distributed at all). I doubt Eric Dane wanted his fans donating to this thing. I guarantee he didn't know about it. There was no way he was thinking about GFM in the last brutal few months of his life.

Anonymous wrote:The Go Fund Me is ridiculous. It’s in very poor taste.

It also makes GFM look bad. If I worked at GFM I would require celebrities to prove they are broke.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the folks criticizing the Van Der Beeks’ Go Fund Me make their way to this thread. Eric Dane has one now and he’s worth $7 million.

Better to donate to an ALS charity or research fund.

I’m the PP whose mom died of this and the ALS Association - both the national organization and the DC/MD/VA chapter - are wonderful and very deserving of support.

This is good to know, thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the folks criticizing the Van Der Beeks’ Go Fund Me make their way to this thread. Eric Dane has one now and he’s worth $7 million.

Better to donate to an ALS charity or research fund.

I’m the PP whose mom died of this and the ALS Association - both the national organization and the DC/MD/VA chapter - are wonderful and very deserving of support.