Memorabilia Site Defrays Corey Haim Funeral Costs

By PopEater Staff Posted Mar 14th 2010 09:00AM

Just days after Corey Haim's family solicited donations to fund the late actor's burial, a celebrity memorabilia Web site, Startifacts, has announced they are "giving [Judy Haim] $20,000 directly from our own bank account to be used however she sees fit," Jon Hill, a manager for Startifacts.com, told E! News. The company will donate proceeds from their Haim-related auctions to help defray burial costs, including transporting his body to Toronto. Startifacts will present the actor's family with a check next week at his funeral, rather than wait until the auction items are sold.

His family posted a thank you to all the fans who reached out with donations. "It appears that we may have now raised enough money to cover all expenses of Corey's funeral! Many thanks to Startifacts & all his caring fans & friends who sent in donations... The Haim family is very relieved to know that they will be able to lay Corey to rest at home in Canada," his family said in a statement on Haim's official Web site.

On March 11, his family urged fans to help pay for the funeral costs. "Corey's funeral will be taking place next week in his hometown of Toronto, Canada. Due to the unexpected expenses of transporting his body to Canada for final resting, a fund has been set up to help his family," Haim's family wrote on the Web site.

Haim, the former teen idol who rose to fame in 1980s classics 'The Lost Boys' and 'Lucas,' died Wednesday morning of an apparent drug overdose in Burbank, Calif., the LAPD has confirmed. He was 38. Haim collapsed in the Oakwood apartment belonging to his mother, who was at home at the time and called 911.

The final cause of death has been deferred pending toxicology and histopathology testing. The final report is expected in six to eight weeks.

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Sunday 14 March

By kittywhiskywhiskers

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@Brenda...if you think you're woman enough....make me. See? I can be just as immature as you.

By Joe

his good friend corey feldman should offer to pay for everything

Sunday 21 March

By loviatar9

I agree. I'm sure feldman made enough off of that pathetic "reality" show he did w/haim

Monday 15 March

By The Punisher

LABTECH302

SUCK IT!

By Barbie

I think its sad and pathetic that this family is asking for a handout. If they can't afford the funeral than do what every other family would do, cremate him and carry him home to Canada in a box. If he was so famous and knew so many famous people they should have written checks to help with the funeral, not ask everyday people who are losing their homes and jobs. This smells like the Britney Murphy scam that her husband and mother tried to pull on Hollywood and fans. Just pathetic.

By Kripa

Wouldn't everyone feel like an ass if he didn't die the way you think. The past doesn't always mean a demise in the future. Some people just have more faith in someone than others. R.I.P. Corey Haim. You will be missed.

Wednesday 17 March

By mike&trish

we are life long fans of corey,who left us well befor his time.your pain and problems are over now SO YOU WALK WITH JESUS. we all have our own crosses to carry,but coreys was put in the spot light.our love and prayers are with his mother now,who for a short time gave us a wounderful person to watch grow up on the screen. for all the haters out there,DONT THROW STONES WHEN YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE.

I was kinda surprised to see so many people hatin' on Haim's family about this, but I've gotta agree that it's quite crass to be making a public appeal for funeral funds. The mother lives in Oakwood, CA... I doubt she's broke. Drug addiction is a VERY expensive past-time so I'm sure most, if not all, of the money he had as an adult (after whatever his parents used up of his kiddie cash) was paid out to dealers. But just because he still had a little bit of fame left doesn't make it ok not to take care of your own by paying for their funeral.

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