All language subtitles for House.of.Hammer.S01E02.1080p.Sins of the father.x265-RARBG

[Casey Hammer] My grandfather
lived in Holmby Hills,

which is the neighborhood

right between
Wilshire Boulevard
and Sunset

in Westwood.

It's the elite of the elite.

And now, we're gonna come
up on the right side,

is my grandfather's house.

There's his house,

and we would park
right here in front,

and then we would get up
and race up the stairs.

And that front window
was Grandpa's office.

[newscaster] As president
of Occidental Petroleum,

Armand Hammer turned it
into the 11th largest
oil company

in the United States.

[Casey] The Hammer name
wielded a lot of prestige
and power.

[man] And the two
grandchildren,

Michael and Casey,
would you please stand up?

[Casey] We were always
hanging out with royalty
at these parties,

and we would get training,

and we would learn
how to address the royalty.

It was just this
kind of secret society,

kind of inner circle
of the elite.

[Prince Charles] How on Earth
do they expect us

to get anything done

without money?

[Casey] People were so curious
about that lifestyle,

about all that wealth.

On the outside,
we were a perfect family.

-[woman] Hi, Casey!
-Come on in.

Watch your step.

But beneath it all was
a dark world of deceit,

betrayal, and corruption...

...and that's why
I'm coming forward now.

It's time to stop the cycle.

So, this is a picture
of the Hammer family,

and there's my father, Julian.

I'm standing behind him.

You have my brother, Michael,

and then,
in the center of the shot

is my grandfather,

and he's holding Armie.

[man] How did Armie Hammer
go from Hollywood golden boy

to an alleged abuser

in the space
of one evening in January?

[woman] When all this
came out about Armie,

I was not shocked.

[newscaster] Sexually graphic
texts and DMs

of dominating, BDSM,

and even cannibalism
began trending.

[woman] This behavior,
it's deep-rooted.

[Casey] My father,
Julian Hammer,

is Armie's grandfather.

When my mother met my father,

they ended up in Tijuana,

drunk on the back
of a motorcycle,

and getting married.

And my mother had no idea

that my father was
Armand Hammer's son.

Had no idea about the wealth,
had no idea about any of it.

And then, when my father
got married,

my grandfather decided

that my father needed
to be responsible

now that he had a wife.

I was born in 1960.

We moved to Pacific Palisades,

which was near the coast
in California.

But my father was such a mess.

He was always drunk,

and you just never knew
what kind of condition
he was in.

There was a lot going on
behind closed doors.

Christmases were probably
my favorite time of year.

It was a big deal.

It was like
a department store.

We all got piles and piles
of Christmas presents.

That's my brother, Michael,

Armie's father...

...and there he is,
riding a little motorcycle.

I should be
somewhere in there.

I remember one year,
it was Christmas Eve.

I was young, maybe five,

and I still believed
in Santa Claus.

[distant shouting]

After I had gone to bed,

I heard screaming.

[indistinct shouting]

My father and mother
were fighting,

and he was threatening
to kill her.

[arguing continues]

-[slaps]
-[woman yelps]

[Casey] My father slapped
my mom really hard,

and I just remember
seeing blood splatter.

She made me go back to my room

and told me that everything
was gonna be okay,

and if I didn't
go right to sleep,

Santa Claus wasn't gonna come.

As a little girl,

when you're seeing your mom
get beat up by your father,

and blood running down
the front of her body,

and her screaming,

you don't really understand
what's happening.

I can't tell you
how many times

I would get under my covers
as a little girl

and put my fingers
in my ears and sing...

...because I didn't
wanna hear the noise.

I didn't wanna hear
the screaming...

...because you can't
make it stop.

As we got older, my father...

He just got worse
and worse and worse.

In the middle of the night,

my mom would collect me,

and we would grab
what we could

and get in the car
and drive down the hill

and go to a motel...

...and wait until the sun
came up...

...until my father
cooled down,

and then we would go
back to the house.

That happened a lot.

It always escalated.

You didn't know
what was gonna happen next.

My mom had been
threatening to leave.

But my grandfather
always said,

"If you leave my son,

I'll ruin you and make
your life miserable,"

and, you know,

"You won't have a penny."

My grandfather had very
powerful attorneys back then.

The public persona
turned into,

"I can take everything
away from you

with one stroke of the pen."

So it was a frightening,
scary energy

that my grandfather had.

The Hammer family name
had to be pristine.

You couldn't be the reason
for the black mark.

While my grandfather
was alive,

you played by his rules,
or you got cut off.

We were taught
that Big Brother's
always watching.

You can't get away from it.

My grandfather had files
on anybody you dated
or any of your friends.

[telephone ringing]

[Casey on recording] You would
pick up your phone
to talk to someone,

and you would hear a click,

and you knew
you were being recorded.

You didn't make a move
without thinking about,

"What if Grandpa finds out?"

[Mariann Vitamanti]
Casey's grandfather
controlled his family.

He controlled everything.

That has to be scary,

to know that there are people
watching you all the time.

"Walk the straight and narrow.

I see you.

You don't see me,
but I see you."

[Casey] I like to say
that our lives were
like a chessboard,

and my grandfather basically
controlled all the moves.

[applause]

But I had no idea
about half of the things

my grandfather did

and how powerful
he really was.

-[all applauding]
-[host] Well, look
who is here.

He happens to be
president and CEO

of Occidental Petroleum
in Los Angeles.

Maybe I should say he is
also one of the wealthiest
men in the world.

Please welcome
Dr. Armand Hammer.

[applause]

[Casey] My grandfather built
an oil empire

that up until his death

was, I believe,
the 16th largest company
in the world.

[host] Well, that's
a pretty good hand
for a rich guy.

Everything he touched
turned to gold.

[Neil Lyndon] I worked
for Armand Hammer
from 1986 to 1989

as one of his political
and media consultants.

And I saw him exercise
access around the world

which was unparalleled
for a private individual.

He could, at will,

enter the Kremlin.

I help him, he helps me.

It is mutual.

We do not discuss secrets,
just business.

[Lyndon] Buckingham Palace,
the White House...

They were all at his disposal

and at his bidding.

[machine beeps]

-[John F. Kennedy] Mr. Hammer?
-[Armand Hammer] Yes?

[John F. Kennedy] Oh, this is
the President, how are you?

[Armand Hammer] Oh, hello,
President Kennedy, I'm glad
to hear from you again.

[Casey] I remember once
asking my grandfather

why he wasn't President
of the United States,

and he laughed
and said there wasn't
enough power in it.

I mean, even now,

people are still
so fascinated.

This stuff didn't start
with Armie.

He is the great-grandson
of Armand Hammer,

an oil tycoon
whose son, Julian,

who would be Armie's
grandfather, was insane.

He beat the living daylights
out of his wife...

I was definitely
pulling in eyeballs,

like, just by sharing
the things that I was
looking into.

I had so many tips coming in,

and it wasn't just
tips about Armie.

It was just tips
about the whole family.

[clicks]

By virtue of sharing
the story,

Candice and I found each other
on Instagram,

and we started talking
about the case.

I didn't even know
who Armand Hammer was,

and looking into him
and his son,

and his son after that,

and then Armie,

it was so many people
in this family that had
a sort of history.

[Lauren Skae] People were
absolutely dumbfounded.

What are the odds
that there would be

so many generations
of a family

behaving so badly?

What became
readily apparent to us

was that there was still
a lot of things to uncover.

[Casey] My mom had always said
that she stayed with my father
as long as she did

because of my grandfather.

So, it was a never-ending
cycle for a very long time.

But then finally, I was 11,
and she'd had enough,

and we went
down the street
to the motel...

...and this time,
we didn't go back.

When my parents got divorced,

my grandfather kept
to his word,

and my father destroyed
my mother in court.

My father ended up
only paying, like,

$200 a month's child support.

My mom said that
the biggest regret of her life

was letting Michael decide
to stay with my father.

It was a while
before my mother let me
go down and visit my father.

I just remember,

it was the house I grew up in,

so it was familiar,

but yet, there were
tons of people.

It was a lot of drinking...

...a lot of
smoke-filled rooms,

a lot of screaming,
a lot of loud music...

...a lot of drugs.

He always had, like,
16 or 17-year-old
girls around,

not much older than I was,

five or six years older,

and he called them
his "housekeepers."

[man laughing]

It was code
for his girlfriends.

I believe it was...

...sexual, in a sense

where they were usually
sitting on each other's laps

or kissing or fondling
each other.

It was almost
like giant orgies.

Michael, my brother,
would bring his friends
up to party,

and they would
hit on them, as well.

The drugs were free-flowing,

so it was a very
free atmosphere.

Casey was one
of my best friends.

I don't remember

when the first time
I met Mike was,

but he was always around.

Casey and I would go
to Julian's,

her father's house.

As you walk in,

there was a big bowl
of cocaine

and a very, kind of,
"help yourself" attitude.

It was an environment
where old men

and young girls
and cocaine, and...

It was shocking.

[camera shutter clicks]

Your parents aren't
supposed to do that.

One time at a party,

I had come out of my bedroom
the next morning,

and everyone was passed out
all over the floor.

I remember walking
by the couch,

and there were
polaroid pictures of one
of my father's housekeepers,

and at the time, I thought
she was eating an ice cream,

because that's what you did
when you were little.

I kept looking at the pictures

trying to figure out
what was happening,

and that's how I realized
that it wasn't an ice cream,

that it was attached to a man.

One of the pictures,

in the background was
this figure in the corner,

in a chair, watching.

I recognized that that
was my father.

Being born in that family

and watching the behavior,

it was my normal.

I mean, how do you know
it's wrong when that's
all you know?

So, when my father
and my brother

surrounded themselves with
young, impressionable women

that would basically do
anything that they asked...

...that was
the mentality I saw.

Women were disposable
in the Hammer family.

[Armie Hammer] So, [sighs]
I had to move rooms.

They had to move my room

'cause of some, like,
noise complaints or something.

I think they said it was 417.

Oh, here it is.

[Candice Cronkhite]
A major news publication
posted a video,

and it showed Armie
holding his phone,

walking into his room.

[Armie] All right,
so far, so good.

Uh, that bed looks
pretty comfy.

[Cronkhite] He just
glosses over a woman
on all fours in lingerie

and goes out and shows
out the balcony.

[Armie] Yeah, boy!

It's like, "Look how much
power I have.

I have a lady
just sitting right here,

waiting for me to do
whatever I ask her to

and she's staying quiet."

[cell phone chimes]

I was getting
information via DMs

saying that this is
his Finsta account,

"el-_destructo-_86."

Finsta just means
"fake Instagram."

and these are often
used by celebrities

that have a private account

separate from
their public ones.

On this private
Instagram account,

he basically posted
anything he wanted.

Where his public one
was very curated,

this one, he was
posting videos

of him engaging
in sexual things,

him doing drugs.

It was pretty wild.

He really wasn't hiding
what he was doing.

He had posted a picture
of him on the toilet

with a drug test, saying,

"All negative.
My body is a finely tuned
toxicant processing unit."

Indicating that
he definitely took drugs
and he passed a drug test.

Shit's getting weird.

[man] More, one more.

[smacks lips]
Yep, got it all. [hissing]

It's just such a reflection
of how above the law
this man thinks he is,

that he is not only
in a car taking drugs

and drinking while driving,

but videotaping it...

[can pops open]

...and posting it,

because he thinks it's cool
to show his friends.

[sighs] Ah.

[Cronkhite] It seems
like each generation

was impacted
with a number of women

who had been wronged
by the Hammer family.

[photographer shouts]
Armie, looking up here.
Right here, over here for me.

[Skae] It's hard
to imagine one person
behaving that badly.

To hear that
it's been going on
for so many generations

is kind of unimaginable.

[producer] There we go.

[Edward Epstein] My name
is Edward Jay Epstein.

Everything okay?

In 1980,
The New York Times came to me

and asked if I wanted to write
a profile on Armand Hammer,

so I did.

I began traveling
with Armand Hammer.

I went all over the world
with him,

got to know him pretty well.

One of the things
that intrigued me about Hammer

was that his public persona

was purposely divorced
from his private activities.

Armand controlled everyone,
including women,

and Hammer in his life
had three marriages.

Well, you haven't been
unlucky in love then?

[Epstein] The first was
in Russia with Olga.

[Armand] She wanted
a career in Hollywood

and I was here in New York.

It didn't last.

We were divorced.

[Epstein] The second
was with Angela...

[Armand] Unfortunately,
she was an alcoholic,

and after ten years
of putting up with her,

I divorced her.

[Lyndon]
Armand's wife, Angela...

...in her divorce testimony,
she said that he,

"willfully, maliciously,
and deliberately pursued
a course of conduct,

employed techniques,
tactics and practices

calculated and designed
to destroy her will.

He threatened her with serious
bodily violence and injury,

and to beat her brains out
by brandishing a metal pipe.

'I feared my husband.

He is a master
of psychological warfare.'"

[Armand]
My present wife, Frances,

we've been married 31 years
and this is the happiest...

31 years of my life.

Well, what's the moral
of this story?

Well, we must never give up.

[audience laughing]

[Epstein] Armand Hammer
considered his relations
with women

as a means
of getting something.

They served a purpose to him.

He married Frances
for her money.

She gave him the money
that allowed him

to go into the oil
business in a big way.

[reporter] Dr. Armand Hammer
and his third wife, Frances,

took a $100,000 gamble

when they invested
in Occidental Petroleum,

a small and struggling
oil company.

[Epstein] As far as
the public was concerned,

Armand did not have
extra-marital relationships.

But in truth, he always
had mistresses,

and he always womanized.

He looked for young
women who he could
control completely.

You have this page,

you got a lot of pictures
of the different women
in his life,

but this page, I wanna
show the picture up here.

That's a woman
named Martha Kauffman...

[Epstein] It was
Martha Kauffman, yes.

-...but down here, the same
woman is Hilary Gibson...
-[Epstein] Right.

...who are these two people?
Are they the same person?

I interviewed Martha Kauffman

also known as Hilary Gibson,

one of Hammer's mistresses.

She told me that his wife,
Frances, found out

she was having a liaison
with her husband.

Frances laid
down the law and said,

"you have to get
rid of this woman."

So, rather than
give up his mistress,

he found a solution that
was typical to the kinds
of solutions he found.

He had Martha Kauffman
change her name.

Hilary Gibson.

Wear a white wig...

...and pretended
to his wife that she
was a different woman.

[interviewer]
And Frances, his wife
never figured it out?

No.

What he demanded was control
of every part of her life

including her identity.

It was all in his nature

of a man who totally
wanted to control

a woman that he
viewed as a object

not as a human being.

"Martha Kauffman,
Armand's mistress,

had to be available to meet
his schedule at short notice.

He gave her two beepers
to alert her to his calls.

He prohibited her
from seeing other men,

and to make sure of her
whereabouts in Los Angeles,

he had a homing device
installed in her car

and a tap placed
on her phone."

...He had my location
on his phone...

"He also controlled
her vacation schedule.

She had to submit
to his sexual demands

even when she considered
them extremely humiliating."

...something is very
degrading, very belittling...

Unfortunately, not shocked.

This is exactly
the kind of things...

...I experienced. This is...

...extremely humiliating.

I resonate with that.

Armie is so consuming.

He does whatever
he wants, but...

...you're his.

Completely.

[Cronkhite] I kept looking
more into the archives
of newspaper articles

trying to find more content
relating to the overlaps

and parallels between
each generation.

"Son of Armand Hammer Seized.

Julian Hammer, 47-year-old son
of industrialist Armand Hammer

was arrested at his Pacific
Palisades home Thursday night

for allegedly
threatening a man in his
home with a shotgun.

Hammer brandished the weapon
after returning home

and finding 19-year-old
Gary Bowers there
with Cathe Boal, 28.

Hammer reportedly
said to Bowers,

'hold it, take another step
and I'll blow you apart.'"

[interviewer]

Stop!

[clapper]

[interviewer 2]

You're welcome
and Casey's welcome.

I'm doing this for Casey.
[chuckling]

I met Julian Hammer
in the mid-70s.

He needed someone
to come and clean the house

and he offered me the job.

I had just had a child,

so I was able to bring
my son up there

while I was
cleaning the house.

The first day I came
to work, there was
a big party going on.

It was a gambling party,

it had been going
on for a couple days,
apparently.

Everybody in Pacific
Palisades that lived there

knew about Julian.

He was always in really nice
pajamas and a beautiful robe

and slippers and stuff.

That's how he entertained.

Because he was the Hugh
Hefner of Pacific Palisades.

As days went on, he started
kinda opening up to me

about the real him instead
of being the phony

with all of the people coming
up and partying and stuff.

He was a real charmer,
he knew how to get his way,

and he was just suave,
you know, when he
wanted to be.

As time went on we
just got real close.

When my son was
nine months old,

Julian convinced me that
I should leave my husband.

We had probably
been seeing each other
around six months or so

and we, um, got engaged.

He seemed to be more
possessive as time went on.

He didn't want me
to have any friends.

Just him.

I was naive, really,
I guess you might say,

but I thought if I could
give him enough love

that maybe I could change him.

Which, of course,
you don't change anybody,

but I didn't know that then.

One night, I convinced
him that it was time for him
to take me out.

And after we had dinner,
he wanted to stop at a bar.

-[disco music playing]
-♪ I will go away ♪

Julian started hanging
around with the guys in there

and kind of flirting
around with the guys.

I got jealous,
I didn't like the idea

that he's flirting
with these guys.

"Why aren't you flirting
with me? Why are you
flirting with these guys?"

Then I started realizing
it was a gay bar.

♪ Phunkee man, phunkee man ♪

He did not want to leave.

I just got so upset,
I just walked out of the bar,

walked across the street,
put my thumb out.

Within, like, five minutes,

this really nice
guy pulled over

and he took me
to Julian's house.

And as he started to leave,
Julian pulled up.

And that's
when everything escalated

'cause Julian saw
him at the door...

...and got upset that
a man had brought me home.

The go-to was always a gun.

That was his thing when he
got mad like a little baby.

"I'm gonna go get my gun
and I'm gonna shoot you."

That was his
way to get control.

[faint arguing]

Oh, boy.

"Julian Hammer, 47,
son of industrialist
Armand Hammer,

was arrested
on suspicion of assault
with a deadly weapon

and released
on a $1,000 bail."

Somehow or another
I always would give into him

thinking, "all right,
this time it'll be better,
this time it'll be better."

Unfortunately, it never was.

Few days later,
we got in an argument,

and I saw the gun in his
hand and I just said,

"you are not gonna pull
that gun out on me,

you're not gonna
point it at me,"

and that's
when I went for the gun.

[gunshot]

The gun went off.

My nine-month-old
son was in the same room.

He was only a few feet away,

and so it could have
ricocheted and hit him
and killed him.

So, that was it, I left,
that was it, it was over.

[Vitamanti]
There's no consequence.

Well, what message
are you sending?

"So what? What's gonna
happen to me? I'm a Hammer."

Nothing ever
happened to Julian

because Armand Hammer had
the money to make it go away.

[Cathe Boal]
Bottom line, he could
do whatever he wanted.

He could get away with murder.

And he did.

[Cronkhite] Armie Hammer's
great grandfather, Julian,

was arrested
for manslaughter in 1955.

His old friend, Bruce,
came to LA to celebrate
his birthday,

and reminded him
that Julian owed him $400,

and then Julian
shot him two times.

This all happened when Sue
was pregnant with Armie's
father, Michael.

[Casey] The story that
he told us was self-defense,

but my mom was
very quick to tell me,

"no, your father just
murdered someone
in cold blood."

[Epstein] Armand Hammer
got a phone call

saying that his son
had just shot someone.

And so, to save not his son,

but to save his
own reputation...

...he actually delivered
$50,000 in cash to his lawyer,

basically quashing
the charges against his son,

stopping his son from going
to prison for murder.

[Boal] And he didn't
even seem like he was
really bothered

in that he shot his friend
over the gambling debt.

He talked to me just
nonchalant about it.

[Casey] You could get
away with murder,
you could do anything.

There was no accountability.

[Cronkhite] Each generation,

the men learned very early
that money makes things
go away.

It keeps people quiet.

[Epstein] After the murder,

Julian was given
a position by Armand Hammer

at Occidental Petroleum
out of the public eye.

Julian eventually began
doing things for his father,

illegal things like
helping his father

surreptitiously record
conversations.

Julian set him
up with a hidden microphone

and wired 'em up as
we've seen in police movies.

So, he became part
of the secretive world.

A spy world, if you want.

Armand Hammer understood
the criminal mind.

That if you're wired
and have someone on tape,

you have control over them.

[Joseph Finder] The perception
of Hammer in the early 1980s

was that he was
a humanitarian,

a philanthropist,

he was a billionaire,

basically,
whose mission in life

was to bring
about world peace.

A few of us who were
writing about Hammer

were finding out there
was this story there

that the press had
not gotten a hold of.

How do you do,
ladies and gentlemen.

[Finder] Hammer had
successfully buried
the story of his past.

[Cronkhite]
In the Hammer family tree,

you have Armie Hammer
and his father, Michael,

his father, Julian,
his father, Armand,

and his father, Julius.

I'm here to talk about Julius.

[Epstein] Julius Hammer
had come to America

like many
of the Jews of Russia.

He was also a doctor,
but more than that,

he became
an active politician.

[Finder]
Julius Hammer was a founder

of the American
Communist Party.

[Epstein] When his
son in 1898 was born,

he named him Armand
Hammer after the symbol...

...of the Communist
Party in Russia.

The arm and the hammer.

[Finder] The Russians
used the Hammer family

through Julius Hammer
to channel money
into New York,

fund the Communist Party
and then steal technology,

and trade secrets
from the United States.

After years of research,

the CIA concluded
that Armand Hammer

was used to collect
information for the KGB.

He was an agent
of the Soviet Union.

[Epstein] Armie's great
grandfather, Armand Hammer,

goes to Moscow
to take over what his
father had built there.

[Finder] Armand Hammer
became an agent of his
father's company.

He was a money launderer,
he was a courier

for funds that were channeled

to Soviet espionage
in the United States.

It was secret, it was illegal,
it was dangerous.

[Epstein] Behind every great
fortune is a great crime.

Certainly behind
the Hammer fortune...

...there were a great
number of great crimes.

[reporter] The time
for successful capitalists

earning profits in the height
of communism was over,

and Dr. Armand Hammer
decided to leave

because he realized his
businesses would never triumph

under Stalin's crushing rule.

[Finder] When Hammer
arrived in the U.S.
in the early 1930s...

...there was still this fear
of Russia and communism,

so, one of his most
important missions

was to bury his past.

Dr. Hammer, I must show this
audience a picture of Olga.

This is your first wife here.

There she is.

What didn't fit
in with his legend

of being an American who
just happened to be in Russia

was that he had a Russian
wife and a Russian child

born in Moscow, Julian.

So, he tried to create
as much distance as he could.

He even had
a paternity test taken

in the hopes that it would
show that his son, Julian...

...was not really his son.

It was very sad when I
heard the whole story

from Julian's point of view.

He knew he was
always thought of as
an embarrassment.

An albatross.

So, the relationship between
Armand and Julian

was a relationship
of a father trying to hide...

...his son.

And his only son
from the world.

[Casey] My father and brother
hated each other.

They constantly were arguing
and bickering and fighting.

But on the outside
in front of Grandpa,

they were patting
each other on the back

and being so phony
and superficial.

My brother wanted
to surpass my father,

but my father wasn't
gonna let that happen.

[Boal] Julian was very jealous
of Michael. That I saw.

He was very jealous,
he was very rough on Michael.

Very mean to Michael.

I did see a pattern there.

That Julian, I think,
was hard on his children

because Armand
was hard on Julian.

The second trip I took
from Washington

down to visit my father...

...everyone was drinking
way too much...

[music playing in background]

[Casey] ...and my father
offered my brother

$1 million for his girlfriend.

[faint arguing]

My brother, it was like
a monster unleashed.

They both said,
"I'm gonna kill you,"
and they ran outside,

and when I finally
circled the building,

I saw police had
separated them.

The cops didn't arrest
either one of 'em,

and let them both drive away
intoxicated as they were,

and Michael's girlfriend
ended up going with my father

quote unquote
to tame the situation.

She was older than
most of the girls.

Probably 19.

She ended up living
with my father for, like,
another eight months.

When I graduated from high
school, my grandfather said,

"you're now going
to the University of San Diego
because your brother's there."

USD was a Catholic
private school,

2000 students,
so, it was very small.

Michael was larger
than life on the campus,

meaning he had a reputation.

Him and his friends
are partying and just, um,
all kinds of things.

Michael was
the life-of-the-party guy.

He was the leader of the guys.

When their group
would come in,

Michael would always
be front and center.

He was almost
the stereotypical

wealthy kid that you see
in teen movies.

What was his, uh, slogan?

I think he even wanted
T-shirts made that said,
"Decadence, a way of life."

[family friend]
He kind of always had
a different girl.

It would be one
of those things where,
you know,

"Do we really have
to get to know her?

There will just
be a new one next week."

It didn't matter what room
he was in,

he commanded your attention,
he wanted your attention.

Almost every single one

of Casey's closest friends

ended up sleeping with Michael
at some point or another.

[Casey] One night, I had found
a photo album in his closet.

And it was a lot
of naked people

in the pictures, like an orgy,

and there was cash,
and there were drugs,

and there was a gun
in the closet as well.

Michael was mirroring
my father

and showing early signs
of what my father was like.

It was scary.

[Wendy Williams]
My name is Wendy Williams.

Casey Hammer
and Michael Hammer

are my cousins.

I thought that they were
just wealthy,

they had this wonderful life,

when it was not
like that at all.

Michael was pretty reckless
when he was younger.

I remember Armand Hammer

coming in to intervene
with Michael.

He was making very
specific demands

of how Michael's life
was going to be.

Basically, there would
be no money

unless he cleaned up his life

and did what Armand...

...wanted.

Which was, come work
for the company.

[family friend] It always
appeared that Michael

was the Hammer heir.

And Casey was,

for a lack of a better way
to say it,

"Just be nice and be pretty
and we'll take care of you."

[Casey] Michael had
gotten back into graces
with my grandfather

and then was hired at Oxy.

And so, Michael saw

he could try and manipulate
my grandfather,

or get, you know,
above my father's hierarchy.

[orchestra playing]

[woman singing]
♪ Happy birthday ♪

♪ To you ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

[Casey] Grandpa would
throw parties all the time.

We would get invited,

and it was a select few 2,000
of his closest friends.

And it was who's who
in Hollywood
if you got invited.

It's now my great privilege
to introduce Mr. Gregory Peck.

[jazz music playing]

[Casey] It was a huge deal
when they were like,

"Armand Hammer
is hosting Prince Charles
and Lady Diana."

So, yeah, it was pretty cool
when you got to tell people
that you were there.

My father was forced
to show up

at a function or a party,

and just didn't wanna
have anything to do with it.

Whereas my brother
wanted it so deeply...

...to take his place
as heir apparent
to the throne.

I tried watching
the HBO show Succession.

I got through
three episodes...

...and I had to turn it off.

Everyone's brown-nosing
each other

and saying fake stuff,
and everyone hates each other
on the inside,

but on the outside
they're all pretending
to get along.

Magnify Succession
a million times,

and it was literally
my family.

Michael was 27, 28,
when he first met

Armie's mother, Dru.

He was flying first class
and he was really drunk,

and I guess Dru
was sitting next to him.

And she said before she
got off the airplane,

she was planning to marry him.

She was very religious

and very not like
what Michael goes out with.

So when he got off
the airplane

and he was saying,
"I met someone,"

we were all like,
"Sure, okay."

And then when we met Dru,

we just thought,
"Oh, that's never gonna last."

But my grandfather rolled out
the red carpet for her
and her parents.

He wanted Michael and Dru
to get married,

because this was a wholesome,
Tulsa, wealthy family

that was very religious,

and my grandfather believed
that Dru could change Michael.

After we got out of college,
Michael came over one night
to Casey's house

and introduced this woman
as his fiance,
and we got to know her.

But then he was
with other girls

who went out with us,

and, you know, we would
ask questions like,

"Oh, did you break up
with your fiance?"

"No, no, she's fine.
She just couldn't
come out tonight."

[Casey] When they got married,
it was a big, elaborate,
to-do in Tulsa

where who's who was invited.

It was a giant wedding.

When Dru gave birth to Armie,

they would parade him
around to Grandpa's.

Everyone fawned all over him.

I remember being
at Michael and Dru's house
in the Palisades.

Armie, just this little,
cute towhead little boy,

comes up to me.

And Michael says,
"Are you gonna give

your aunt Casey
a hug goodbye?"

[laughing] And he kicked me
in the shins.

I was like, "You're such
a little brat."

But God forbid you touch
or say anything bad to Armie.

He was given
Armand Douglas Hammer,
after my grandfather.

He was the prince, the crown,

the continuation
of the Hammer name,

so the whole Hammer family
could live again

in a whole another generation.

-Armand Hammer--
-Dr. Armand Hammer--

Self-made millionaire
Armand Hammer is dead.

He died last night
at the age of 92.

[Casey] I was living in Hawaii
when I got a phone call

that my grandfather
had passed.

And...

...it was the phone call
that you never thought

was gonna happen.
It was from Michael.

I remember
dropping the phone...

...and the room spinning.

[newscaster 1] Armand Hammer,
philanthropist, art collector,
and industrialist...

It was a huge deal.
The coverage was incredible.

[newscaster 2] From 1921,
Hammer was making deals...

[Casey] I just remember
being at the airport getting
ready to board my flight,

and on all the monitors
and TV screens,
"Armand Hammer Dies."

[newscaster 3] Armand Hammer,
the son of one of the founders

of the American
Communist Party,
acquired Occidental...

[Casey] You couldn't
get away from it.

It was just surreal.

I hope that when I pass on,
I will have left the world

a little better than
when I found it.

[Casey] Michael had called me,

and Grandpa was still
dead on the bed

while he was
looting the house.

There were five vans
out front,

and Michael and Dru
bringing down tapestries

and taking things
from the house.

I had flown in that morning.

I rented a car and I remember
driving to my father's house.

I was just trying
to make sense of everything.

Few days later, we were called
into Arthur Groman's office,

who was my grandfather's
best friend and attorney,

and that was where
the reading of the will was.

Michael was on my right
and my father
was across from me.

Arthur Groman's
reading through it and saying,

"And I leave my granddaughter,

Casey Layne Hammer,
$250,000 in cash."

Let's see what else.

"And I leave Julian Hammer,
my son...

...$500,000.

Pay off his house and car
and debts.

And I leave
Michael Armand Hammer
the Rolls-Royce."

[child laughing]

[Casey] And then
the last paragraph or so was,

"And the executor
of the estate

is Michael Armand Hammer

and his wife, Dru Ann Hammer."

My grandfather had

$40 million of cash left.

I got $250,000,

my father got $500,000...

...everything else got
passed on to Michael.

At that point, you're like,
"Wait, what?"

You don't think
you're hearing any of it.

And my father starts
going off,

"What do you mean,
you get the Rolls-Royce?

I want the Rolls-Royce."
And I'm like,

in my mind, thinking,

"You don't even
understand the gravity
of what just happened."

It made no sense.

And when I asked when
the new will was signed...

...it was in October.

Forty days later,
my grandfather died.

[Epstein] The expectation
of his family members

was he was a billionaire.

And then when
his will was read...

...they learned
that he wasn't.

He had given away
most of his money.

So, the Hammer family
was left basically fighting
among themselves.

Michael decided he would grab
as much of the money

and as much of the power
as he could,

and as executive,
there were very few people
to oppose him.

[Casey] It was like checkmate.

Michael was putting the screws
to my father and I,

and my brother told my mother,

"Casey's just a casualty,"

because he hated
my father so much,

he wanted him out
on the street.

To have Michael,
who professed himself
as a man of God,

doing this to my father
and myself...

...it's not about
the inheritance as much
as it is about

just being acknowledged.

I was completely left out.

That's really sad
when you realize that

[voice shaking]
you don't have any family
or anybody who love you.

I don't know how
to process all of that.

I just, um...

...yeah.

It didn't end well.

Armie talked a lot about
the evilness

of the men in his family.

His dad, his grandpa,
his great-grandpa.

But he didn't sound like
he was ashamed of it.

It's almost like it was
a badge of honor.

After the Sedona night
with the ropes,

Armie's pulling me
even closer.

We go to Dallas
and meet his mom.

He warned me that
it would be interesting.

And that, it was.

She's just like Armie,
she's gorgeous, tall,
really beautiful.

They both command a room.

You know,
they have a presence.

At dinner, Armie was talking

negatively about his father.

And she just blurted out,
"You need to give him
some slack,

because this happened to him

when he was younger."

And it was something
that I should not
have been there for.

Nobody could have
been prepared for what
I heard that night.

It was just some
deep-rooted family trauma.

[producer]