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Lol, thanks for the history lesson. But Jesus, man. I don't need to know Armie Hammer's great grandfather's life story, especially when it doesn't tie into the abuse storyline.

I didn't know how close to the Russians the family was. That definitely sheds some light on his downfall—old enemies, or some blood feud, perhaps.
 

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How much you wanna bet at his trial all those quotes about cannibalism will be put on display?
 

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Armie Hammer Selling Timeshares in Cayman Islands Office
Armie Hammer Spending Time in Cayman Resort Office


Armie Hammer is indeed working as a timeshare salesman in the Cayman Islands ... the actor was heard pitching the benefits of owning property in the beautiful vacation spot. Armie is very much in salesman mode ... you see him sitting with a couple and going over pricing for a unit. A prospective buyer in the office says Armie was outlining a plan that would cost $2,020 per week ... or, as the "Social Network" star put it, only about $21,000 for 10 years of vacations! Armie delivered that sales pitch last month. Vacationing couples were enticed to go to the timeshare office through a flyer that promised discounts for excursions on the island. As we reported, Armie was spotted outside the office in late June after reports he was working there ... Armie's rep told us he had a friend who worked at the resort, but didn't know whether or not Armie was showing or selling timeshares.
 

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Yeah drug addled Hollyweird elites always bail each other out, plus that cannibal/rapist is twice elite. They only have each other to stick up for because no one else will. It would be great if fakestream news would just ignore them all together, just let them fade away and die.
 

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Armie Hammer's Aunt Article
Armie Hammer's aunt said she was not surprised to learn he had been accused of sexual assault. She claimed that generations of men in the family have been mentally, physically, and sexually abusive.​
Speaking to Insider, Casey Hammer described years of abuse she says she faced as the sole female heir of the Hammer family's oil fortune.​
"To be honest with you I really wasn't surprised or shocked," Casey Hammer told Insider of the sexual assault allegations against Armie Hammer that began to come out in January 2021. "You don't just wake up one day and become a monster," Casey Hammer said. "It's a learned behavior and again, that's why I wasn't shocked by a lot of what was happening.​
"House of Hammer," a new docuseries premiering on September 2 on Discovery+, details generations of abuse allegedly carried out by the men of the Hammer lineage. Casey Hammer said she signed on to the project to "elevate victims and hold men accountable" for their actions.​
Casey Hammer said when allegations started to come out against her nephew, she was sad because media reports focused on the salacious claims of cannibalism, not the victims.​
"Truly, the focus should have been on them and not making a joke out of what was being accused of," she told Insider.​
Lawyers for Armie Hammer did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.​
Allegations of misconduct and abuse against Armie Hammer​
In January 2021, an Instagram account called @houseofeffie started to share screenshots of messages claiming they were from Armie Hammer.​
The messages, which remain unverified by media outlets including Insider, detail fantasies including drinking blood, sexual domination, and even acts of cannibalism.​
@houseofeffie went on to share other stories purportedly from different women, who they said had come forward with their own experiences and screenshots of their conversations with Hammer.​
Allegations continued to pour in and by May 2021, Armie Hammer had checked into a treatment center for substance abuse and sex issues.​
The same year, the Los Angeles Police Department launched a nine-month investigation into allegations against Armie Hammer. The Hammers were serial abusers, his aunt alleged. When Armie Hammer was born, Casey Hammer said he was like the "prince." "He was the heir apparent. He was next in line after my brother," she told Insider. "It was one of those things where the men in the family ... they could do no wrong."​
In "House of Hammer," Casey Hammer said Armie Hammer was fawned over by their family as the next in line to the family fortune. In episode 2 of the three-part series, Casey Hammer launches into details of the alleged abuse dating back to her grandfather, the billionaire CEO oil tycoon of Occidental Petroleum, Armand Hammer.​
Casey Hammer alleged that Armand Hammer — and the next three generations of Hammer men including her father, Julius Hammer; her brother, Michael Hammer; and her nephew, Armie Hammer — were sexually, physically, and mentally abusive.​
"It's crazy what was happening behind closed doors, as opposed to what was out in public," Casey Hammer said. Casey Hammer detailed memories of her father hitting her mother and of her grandfather emotionally abusing the men and women around him.​
Casey Hammer told Insider she remembered being 12 years old and holding up a phone book to protect herself as her father shot at her. She alleged that her father held a .357 Magnum up to her temple to see if she was possessed by aliens. But the mental abuse was no easier to handle, she said.​
"A lot of what people focus on is the sexual abuse, the physical, which is, horrific. But also the mental abuse is a big component because it's like mind control. It's like brainwashing. The scars run so deep. And it's something that you live with the rest of your life," Casey Hammer said.​
When the family was together, she said, they all had to pretend they loved each other and act as if the abuse wasn't happening. "It was always out in public," Casey Hammer said of their family gatherings. "It was always what my grandfather wanted to portray. We had to be picture-perfect. Image was everything to him."​
She claims Armand Hammer "controlled the narrative" of their lives "and if you messed up at all, there were repercussions, there were threats, there was punishment, there was being cut off," she added. She said who's left of the family — she, Michael, Armie, and his brother, Victor — are not in close contact anymore. "It's best we just went our separate ways," Casey Hammer said.​
She added that growing up without social media clouded her view of how family life was supposed to be. She continued: "You just think 'this is the way rich people act.' "​
 

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Armie Hammer Family History Article

In 2021, the Los Angeles Police Department said it had launched an investigation into Armie Hammer after a 24-year-old woman, who identified herself as Effie, accused the actor of r*pe. Speaking at a press conference in 2021, Effie said Hammer, who is best known for his roles in the Oscar-winning film "Call Me By Your Name" and "The Social Network," raped her "violently" for four hours in 2017. "I thought that he was going to kill me," she said during the press conference, which she attended alongside her lawyer Gloria Allred.


In an email statement sent to Insider at the time, Hammer's attorney Andrew Brettler denied the allegations, describing them as "outrageous" and said Hammer "welcomes the opportunity to set the record straight." For many months prior to these allegations, Hammer had been the subject of intense social media scrutiny after he was accused of sending NSFW direct messages that involved discussions of sexual acts and cannibalism.

Since then, further details about Hammer's life, including his family history, have been laid bare in multiple reports as well as a new 2022 docuseries called "House of Hammer" on Discovery+.

Armie Hammer's father inherited a fortune estimated to be worth more than $180 million

In a 2021 exposé published by Vanity Fair, the Hammer family history is traced back to Dr. Julius Hammer, Armie's great-great-grandfather.


Julius was a Russian immigrant, who lived in the Bronx and was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and later imprisoned in 1919 after performing an abortion on a Russian diplomat's wife, who died days after the procedure.

The family's business activities, however, start with Julius' son Armand, Hammer's great-grandfather, who made a fortune by investing money he obtained from his third wife into the American oil company, Occidental Petroleum.

According to the report, Armand, who became close associates with many high-powered figures, including Prince Charles and Colonel Gaddafi, was also known for his involvement in "wide-ranging grifts," including "laundering money; using artwork to fund Soviet espionage" and "bribing his way into the oil business."

In the new docuseries "House of Hammer," which focuses on the family's controversies throughout the years, Armand's granddaughter Casey says that growing up, her grandfather was obsessed with maintaining the family's pristine public image. Per Casey, Armand had "files" on all of her friends and romantic partners, and would even record their phone calls to make sure she and other Hammer family members were behaving appropriately.


Both the Vanity Fair story and "House of Hammer" mention Armand's other questionable activities, including forcing his mistress to change her name, wear a disguise, and keep a homing device in her car after Armand's wife found out about the affair, and making an illegal contribution to the Nixon campaign that reportedly helped cover up Watergate.

Armand also recorded "decades' worth" of conversations illegally, according to both the report and docuseries.

When Armand died in 1990, Hammer's father (and Casey's brother), Michael, inherited almost all of the family's business empire, which is estimated to be worth more than $180 million. Casey was given $250,000, she said on "House of Hammer."

Armand Hammer with Prince Charles.

Armand Hammer pictured with Prince Charles.

Knoedler Gallery, owned by the family, closed down in 2011 after a forgery investigation by the FBI
Along with the cash fortune, Michael also inherited Knoedler Gallery, a commercial art gallery in New York City. Knoedler, founded in 1846, was one of New York's most venerated institutions.


In 2009, however, the gallery made headlines after its president, Ann Freedman, stepped down as rumors about the origins of many of the gallery's paintings began to emerge within the art world.

Two years later, the gallery collapsed after an FBI investigation uncovered that between 1994 and 2009, a slew of paintings said to be made by abstract expressionist masters like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning and were sold by the gallery to buyers for millions of dollars were, in fact, fakes. In total, Knoedler was accused of selling 63 forged paintings.

Ann Freedman, former director of Knoedler & Company art gallery, leaves a courthouse in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016.

Ann Freedman, former director of Knoedler & Company art gallery, leaves a courthouse in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. AP Photo/Seth Wenig
The forged paintings had been created by the infamous forger Pei-Shen Qian in his Queens, New York, garage. Qian reportedly used techniques such as using tea bags to stain his canvases to make the forgeries appear period-appropriate. (He claims he didn't know the paintings were being sold as the real deal.)

The paintings were bought by the gallery from a Long Island art dealer named Glafira Rosales at the instruction of Freedman (Freedman said she didn't know the paintings were fake and described herself as the "central victim"). Rosales claimed the paintings had belonged to a mysterious and well-connected art collector named "Mr. X."


Ten lawsuits were filed against the gallery, all of which were settled. However, one case went to trial in 2016 where Domenico De Sole — a Sotheby's chairman — and his wife accused the gallery of knowingly selling them a fake Mark Rothko painting for over $8 million.

The case was ultimately settled, but during the trial, a former Knoedler accountant testified that Michael had used the gallery's credit card to fund his personal lifestyle.

Expenses reportedly included a $1 million trip to Paris and the purchase of two luxury cars.

Julian Hammer, Armie Hammer's grandfather, was accused of killing a man in 1955. He was separately accused of sexual abuse by his daughter.
While Hammer's father Michael was given the keys to the family fortune, Michael's father (Armie Hammer's grandfather), Julian, who appeared to be the natural successor, was given $250,000.


Armand is said to not have cared much for Julian because he "caused too much trouble."

In 1955, Julian was arrested on suspicion of killing a man at his Los Angeles home on the morning of his 26th birthday. The charges were later dismissed. According to Vanity Fair, Armand had $50,000 in cash delivered to a lawyer in Los Angeles before the charges were dropped.

On "House of Hammer," Casey recalled being in her father's house during his raucous parties, which allegedly included underage women and "bowls of cocaine." Casey has also alleged that Julian sexually abused her as a child. She made the allegation in her self-published 2015 memoir "Surviving My Birthright" and also said Julian was abusive to other members of the family, Vanity Fair reports.

Although Julian never addressed the allegation before his death in 1996, Casey's half-sister, Jan Ward, told Vanity Fair in a statement, "I will say that I love my family very much, which includes my brother, my sister, and my nephews." She declined to comment about the allegations at the time.
 

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Armand Hammer with Nixon


Untold History of the Armand Hammer Family
Julius Hammer, who named his son Armand after the arm-and-hammer symbol of the Socialist Labor Party, was a founder of the American Communist Labor Party and one of the major reasons why Armand later rubbed elbows with Vladimir Lenin and Leonid Brezhnev, per The New York Times. Julius helped the Soviet Union procure necessary supplies from the United States in light of embargos. When he was arrested for a fatal abortion, Armand took over and became the first in command. He was the main actor for Soviet concessions, allowing him to mine asbestos in the Soviet Union while he persuaded American companies to invest in the country. He also saved the Soviet's food industries by shipping them beef and phosphoric acid — which was used in agriculture.

His relationship with the Soviet Union dwindled when Joseph Stalin took over, per CS Monitor, despite Lenin's personal appeals to Stalin to trust in Hammer, per The New York Times. But their ties were strengthened again once Leonid Brezhnev was in power, and it was around that time that the Kremlin wanted their guy as the American ambassador to the Soviet Union. Unsurprisingly, the request was denied by the White House.

Occidental Petroleum, the oil giant Armand Hammer chaired until his death in 1990, was once responsible for the world's worst offshore oil disasters. The oil platform, Piper Alpha, suffered a leak, leading to an explosion and fire. It occurred after a safety valve on one of Piper Alpha's gas compression pumps was removed, per Britannica. A lack of communication led other workers to use the pump, unaware that it was decommissioned. Its improper handling led to the gas leak. A domino effect ensued; the heat from one explosion put pressure on a nearby gas pipeline, leading to another explosion, per BBC news. It resulted in a mass casualty — of the 226 people working on the platform, 167 people died.







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Vanity Fair Article
By the 1950s, Armand had divorced Olga as well as a second wife, Angela, who had told the court that, due to his time in Russia and his medical training, “[it] causes him no pain to see the sufferings of others.”
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Armand tried to distance himself from his Soviet connections, reimagining himself as a self-made industrialist—he even hired a journalist to ghostwrite a memoir, The Remarkable Life of Dr. Armand Hammer. He had a private Boeing 727; palled around with Prince Charles and high-powered politicians (he was a close friend of Senator Al Gore Sr. and attended the inaugurations of FDR, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, among other presidents); collected expensive artwork; and convinced Chinese leaders to lend two pandas to Los Angeles for the city’s 1984 Olympics. He died in 1990.
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Armand bugged his office and home, plus his cuff links, to record decades’ worth of conversations, had a fixer, and was known to do business with a briefcase full of cash. He also made an illegal contribution to the Nixon reelection campaign which, “in all likelihood,” according to The New York Times, “went to help pay for the Watergate cover-up.” Though he faced a felony charge for obstructing justice, a Washington lawyer helped him plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, and H. W. Bush later pardoned him.
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In the morning hours after Julian’s 26th birthday, in 1955, he killed a man inside his Los Angeles home over a gambling debt and supposed advances on his wife, Glenna Sue. The front-page headlines read “Millionaire’s Son Kills GI.” Armand had a friend deliver $50,000 in cash to a lawyer in Los Angeles. Julian claimed self-defense, and charges were dismissed.
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“We call these guys the lucky sperm club here,” said a person with ties to the family. “Never accomplished anything. They know a whole lot about spending other people’s money.”
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For years, three people claimed, Michael boasted about a sex throne or “naughty chair,” as he has called it, that he kept in Armand Hammer Foundation headquarters in Carpinteria—a warehouse where two people claim Michael lived for several years after his divorce. The structure, about seven feet high, features a chair with a hole in the seat, a cage underneath, and a hook. The Hammer coat of arms—the same one that, for years, adorned the exterior of the headquarters—is painted on the seat. In one photo Michael sits atop the throne grinning while holding the head of a blonde woman, sitting in the cage and also smiling. In response to Vanity Fair’s questions about Michael’s sex throne, drug and alcohol use, finances, and history with women, Clare, counsel for Michael Hammer and the Armand Hammer Foundation, said, “These questions, which ask about unsolicited gag gifts sent by friends, conduct that sounds pretty typical of recently-divorced people, and entirely legal financial transactions that were properly accounted for, are absurd.”
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In September the then 22-year-old Paige Lorenze met Armie. She, too, got an immediate barrage of sordid family secrets. “A lot of really dark stuff,” Lorenze said. “I felt confused why he was telling me this stuff so instantly...It was stuff I would never share off the bat...He said his grandfather was this kind of very scary person who had these crazy sex parties where there would be guns.” But, said Lorenze, there was an unmistakable tone of awe. “He thought it was cool and was proud of him in a way.”

Armie quotes
“I am 100% a cannibal…. Fuck. That’s scary to admit. I’ve never admitted that before. I’ve cut the heart out of a living animal before and eaten it while still warm.”
“I want to see your brain, your blood, your organs, every part of you. I would definitely bite it. 100%. Or try to fuck it. Not sure which. Probably both.”
“If I fucked you into a vegetative state id keep you, feed you, watch you, and keep fucking you...Till you are so sore and broken…. I can’t stop thinking of [fucking] your actual brain.”
“Brand you, tattoo you, mark you, shave your head and keep your hair with me, cut a piece of your skin off and make you cook it for me…. “Who’s slave/master relationship is the strongest?” We’d win. When I tell you to slit your wrists and use the blood for anal.”
“Raping you on your floor with a knife against you. Everything else seemed boring. You crying and screaming, me standing over you. I felt like a god. I’ve never felt such power or intensity.”
Tattoos


His account was under el destructo 86 - recorded himself drunk driving and doing drugs




Ex Paige Lorenze claims Armie carved A into her skin

“He would always tell me when he got back from the gym that he was bragging to his friends about carving an ‘A’ into me,” and tells us she believes he took and shared images of her without her permission. “I have gotten a DM saying Armie had sent me photos of me tied up that I didn’t know about. I didn’t even know the photos existed or what they look like. I don’t know if I was blindfolded.”
 

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Armie Hammer reveals he was sexually assaulted by a pastor at 13 in his first interview since sexual abuse claims surfaced
Armie Hammer broke his silence after sexual misconduct and r*pe allegations were made against him and collapsed his career in 2021.​
Hammer's interview with Air Mail's James Kirchick, published on Saturday, comes two years after he became enveloped in controversy. Hammer's then-wife – Elizabeth Chambers – filed for divorce in July 2020, months prior to the release of unverified Instagram messages purportedly from Hammer that discussed cannibalism, drinking blood, and sexual dominance in January 2021.​
The account's owner, Efrosina Angelova, also accused Hammer of sexually assaulting her and said they were involved in a years-long relationship.​
In his interview with Kirchick, the 36-year-old denied the sexual assault allegations from Angelova but said the two had a consensual sexual relationship. Hammer said that the details Angelova presented was, instead, a "scene" the pair planned out.​
"This alleged r*pe was a scene that was her idea. She planned all of the details out, all the way down to what Starbucks I would see her at, how I would follow her home, how her front door would be open and unlocked and I would come in, and we would engage in what is called a 'consensual non-consent scene,' CNC,'" Hammer told the outlet.​
He continued that he sought consent during each of his sexual encounters, saying: "Every single thing was discussed beforehand. I have never thrust this on someone unexpectedly. Never."​
Angelova later formally accused Hammer of sexual assault in March 2021 during a press conference, saying: "I thought that he was going to kill me."​
She added: "On April 24, 2017, Armie Hammer violently raped me for over four hours in Los Angeles, during which he repeatedly slapped my head against a wall, bruising my face. He also committed other acts of violence against me to which I did not consent."​
Hammer's attorney, Andrew Brettler, denied the allegations at the time in a statement to Insider's Libby Torres.​
"[Effie's] own correspondence with Mr. Hammer undermines and refutes her outrageous allegations," Brettler wrote. "As recently as July 18, 2020, [she] sent graphic texts to Mr. Hammer telling him what she wanted him to do to her. Mr. Hammer responded making it clear that he did not want to maintain that type of relationship with her."​
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Insider in March 2021 that Hammer was the subject of an investigation. TMZ reported in December 2021 that the investigation ended and it was unlikely that Hammer would face charges.​
Hammer also addressed sexual misconduct allegations from two of his ex-girlfriends, Paige Lorenze and Courtney Vucekovich, in Air Mail's interview.​
Lorenze shared purported explicit text messages between her and Hammer with Page Six, telling the outlet that Hammer carved the letter "A" near her vagina with a knife.​
"These latest messages are just further evidence of the reality of his dangerous proclivities and his reaction shows his blatant disregard for the women he has traumatized," Lorenze told Page Six.​
Vucekovich told Page Six in January 2021 that Hammer once told her that he "wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it," alongside other emotional abuse accusations. Brettler told People at the time that "all interactions between Mr. Hammer and his former partners were consensual. They were fully discussed, agreed upon in advance with his partners, and mutually participatory."​
Hammer told Air Mail that "the power dynamics were off" and he should have considered how his fame affected consent.​
"I would have these younger women in their mid-20s, and I'm in my 30s. I was a successful actor at the time. They could have been happy to just be with me and would have said yes to things that maybe they wouldn't have said yes to on their own. That's an imbalance of power in the situation," he told the outlet.​
He later added: "I had a very intense and extreme lifestyle and I would scoop up these women, bring them into it—into this whirlwind of travel and sex and drugs and big emotions flying around—and then as soon as I was done, I'd just drop them off and move on to the next woman, leaving that woman feeling abandoned or used."​
When asked if he emotionally abused his accusers, Hammer told the outlet, "one million percent."​
As a result of the allegations, Hammer said in February 2021 he experienced suicidal ideation while quarantining in the Cayman Islands.​
"I just walked out into the ocean and swam out as far as I could and hoped that either I drowned, or was hit by a boat, or eaten by a shark," Hammer told Air Mail. "Then I realized that my kids were still on shore, and that I couldn't do that to my kids."​
Hammer told Air Mail that his interest in BDSM began when he was 13, after experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of a youth pastor for nearly a year.​
"What that did for me was it introduced sexuality into my life in a way that it was completely out of my control," Hammer said. "I was powerless in the situation. I had no agency in the situation. My interests then went to: I want to have control in the situation, sexually."​
Hammer said attending therapy helped him draw a connection between his BDSM interests and abuse. He continued that the sexual abuse he faced as a child "set a dangerous precedent in my life."​
Hammer's path to accountability may have included help from Robert Downey Jr., who outlets reported paid for Hammer's rehab. A source close to Hammer told Vanity Fair in July 2022 that Downey allowed Hammer to stay in one of his homes while recovering.​
"There are examples everywhere, Robert being one of them, of people who went through those things and found redemption through a new path. And that, I feel like, is what's missing in this cancel-culture, woke-mob business," Hammer told Air Mail. "The minute anyone does anything wrong, they're thrown away. There's no chance for rehabilitation. There's no chance for redemption. Someone makes a mistake, and we throw them away like a broken disposable camera."​
In the article, Hammer contended that he doesn't want to be absolved from blame and found personal motivation by working as a sober companion with a fellow addict.​
"I'm here to own my mistakes, take accountability for the fact that I was an asshole, that I was selfish, that I used people to make me feel better, and when I was done, moved on. And treated people more poorly than they should have been treated," Hammer told Air Mail.​
 
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