Armie Hammer family history: what you need to know
, 2022-09-02 02:00:00,
Armie Hammer’s fall from grace is the subject of a new documentary, but the actor’s story is just one small part of an unthinkable family legacy.
After a slew of allegations, including rape, threatening text messages and cannibalistic fantasies, Armie Hammer quickly went from Hollywood’s golden boy to a tainted name, in turn causing many onlookers to wonder: “Where is Armie Hamer now? What happens next?”
According to his aunt, Casey Hammer, who appears in Discovery+’s Armie Hammer documentary, House of Hammer, none of these anecdotes about her nephew came as a surprise.
“You don’t just wake up one day and become a monster,” she told Insider (opens in new tab). “It’s a learned behavior and again, that’s why I wasn’t shocked by a lot of what was happening.”
Before the Call Me By Your Name star was accused of physical and emotional abuse, the men in his family generations before had committed similar—and worse—acts.
“If you believe in making deals with the devil, the Hammers are top of the totem pole,” Casey says in the documentary.
Armie Hammer family history: what to know
Before Discovery+ decided to shed light on the actor’s news, the Hammer family was the subject of books, like Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Jay Epstein and feature stories.
Vanity Fair’s (opens in new tab) exposé on the Hammers takes a look all the way back to Dr. Julius Hammer, Armie’s great-great-grandfather, who was jailed in 1919 for manslaughter after performing an abortion on a…
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