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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 are going to 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.

As President of Occidental Petroleum,
Armand Hammer,

turned it into the 11th largest
oil company in the United States.

The Hammer name wielded
a lot of prestige and power.

And the two grandchildren,
Michael and Casey,

would you please stand up.

We were always hanging out
with royalty at these parties.

And we would get training

and you would learn
how to address the royalty.

It was just this secret society,
kind of inner circle of the elite.

How on earth do they expect us

to get anything done without money?

People were so curious
about that lifestyle,

about all that wealth.

On the outside, we were a perfect family.

- 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.

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.

How did Armie Hammer go
from Hollywood Golden Boy

to an alleged abuser
in one evening in January?

When all this came out about Armie,
I was not shocked.

Sexually graphic texts and DMs
of dominating BDSM

and cannibalism are trending.

This behavior, it's deep rooted.

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.

After I had gone to bed,
I heard screaming.

My father and mother were fighting,
and he was threatening to kill her.

My father slapped my mom really hard
and I remember seeing blood splatter.

She made me go back to my room

and said everything was okay.

And if I didn't go right to sleep,
Santa Claus wasn't going to 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 understand.

I can't tell you how many times
I would get under my covers

and put my fingers in my ears and sing,

because I didn't want to hear the noise.

I didn't want to hear the screaming
because you can't make it stop.

As we got older, my father,
he 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,
then we would go back to the house.

That happened a lot.

It always escalated.

You didn't know
what was going to 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 won't have a penny.

My grandfather had powerful attorneys.

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.

You would pick up your phone to talk
and you'd hear a click,

and you knew you were being recorded.

You didn't make a move
without thinking about,

"What if Grandpa finds out?"

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.

I like to say that our lives
were like a chess board

and my grandfather basically
controlled all the moves.

But I had no idea about half
of the things my grandfather did...

and how powerful he really was.

Well, look who is here.

He happens to be president and CEO
of Occidental Petroleum in LA.

He is also one
of the wealthiest men in the world.

Please welcome Dr. Armand Hammer.

My grandfather built an oil empire
that up until his death was,

I believe the 16th largest company
in the world.

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

Everything he touched turned to gold.

I worked for Armand Hammer
from 1986 to 1989

as one of his political
and media consultants.

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 and he helps me. It is mutual.

We do not discuss secrets, just business.

Buckingham Palace, the White House,

they were all at his disposal
and at his bidding.

- Mr. Hammer?
- Yes.

This is the president, how are you?

Oh, hello, President Kennedy,
I'm glad to hear from you again.

I remember asking my grandfather why
he wasn't president of the US,

and he laughed and said,
"There wasn't enough power in it."

I mean, even now
people are still so fascinated.

It 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

just by sharing the things
that I was looking into.

I had many tips coming in
and it wasn't just tips about Armie.

It was tips about the whole family.

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, and then Armie,

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

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.

My mom 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 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, 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.

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
in a very help yourself attitude.

It was an environment where
old men and young girls and cocaine,

and it was shocking.

Your parents aren't supposed to do that.

One time at a party, I'd 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,
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 recognize 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
they asked,

that was the mentality I saw.

Women were disposable
in the Hammer family.

So I had to move rooms,
they had to move my room.

Something about noise complaints.

I think they said it was... 417?

Oh, here it is.

A major news publication posted a video

and it showed Armie holding his phone,

walking into his room.

Alright, so far so good.

Bed looks pretty comfy.

He just glosses over a woman
on all fours, in lingerie,

and goes out and shows out the balcony.

Yeah, boy!

It's like, "Look the power I have.
I have a lady just sitting here

waiting for me to do
whatever I ask her to.

And she's staying quiet."

I was getting information via DMs
saying this is his finsta account,

El_destructo_86.

Finsta just means fake Instagram,

they are used by celebrities
that have a private account

separate from their public ones.

On this private account,
he 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,

"Negative. My body is a finely tuned
toxicant processing unit,"

indicating that he took drugs,
and he passed a drug test.

Shit's getting weird.

Yep, got it all.

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 and posting it

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

It seems like each generation
was impacted with a number of women

who had been wronged
by the Hammer family.

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

To hear it's been going on
for generations

is kind of unimaginable.

My name is Edward J. 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.

I got to know him pretty well.

One of the things that intrigued me
about Hammer

was that his public persona

was purposefully 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.

The first was in Russia with Olga.

She wanted a career in Hollywood,
and I was here in New York.

It didn't last, we were divorced.

The second was with Angela.

Unfortunately, she was an alcoholic.

And after ten years putting up
with her, I divorced her.

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
while brandishing a metal pipe.

"I feared my husband.

He is a master of psychological warfare."

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.

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.

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.

As far as the public was concerned,

Armand did not have extramarital
relationships.

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 have pictures
of the women in his life.

But this page... in the picture up here.

- That's Martha Kaufman...
- That was Martha Kaufman, yes.

- ...and down here is Hilary Gibson.
- Right.

- Who are these two people?
- Well, they're the same person.

I interviewed Martha Kaufman,
also known as Hilary Gibson.

One of Hammer's mistresses.

She told me that when 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 typical
to the kinds of solutions he found.

He had Martha Kaufman
change her name... Hilary Gibson,

wear a white wig,

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

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 an object,
not as a human being.

Martha Kaufman, 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 that's 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.

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 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."

Right now, in San Francisco,
we are interviewing Cathe Boal.

Stop.

I want to start by saying
thank you for being here today.

You're welcome, and Casey is welcome.
I am doing this for Casey.

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 there,

while I was cleaning the house.

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

A gambling party going on
for a couple of days apparently.

Everybody in Pacific Palisades
that lived there knew about Julian.

He was always in nice pajamas
and a beautiful robe and slippers.

That's how he entertained.

Because he was the Hugh Hefner
of Pacific Palisades.

As days went on, he started kind of
opening up to me about the real him,

instead of being the phony

with all the people coming up
and partying and stuff.

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

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 been seeing each other
around six months or so,

then we 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,

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.

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.

Why aren't you flirting with me?
Why with them?

Then I started realizing
it was a gay bar.

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
because 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,

I'll go get my gun, and I'll shoot you.

That was his way to get control.

Oh, boy.

Julian Hammer, 47,
son of industrialist Armand Hammer,

was arrested on suspicion of assault
with a deadly weapon

and released on a $1000 bail.

Somehow or another,
I'd always give in to him,

thinking this time it'll be better.

Unfortunately, it never was.

A few days later, we're arguing
and I saw the gun in his hand.

I just said, "You are not going
to pull that gun out on me,"

"or point it at me."
And that's when I went for the gun.

The gun went off.

My 9-month-old son was in the 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.

There's no consequence.

Well, what message are you sending?

What's going to happen to me?
I am a Hammer.

Nothing ever happened to Julian.

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

Bottom line,
he could do whatever he wanted.

He could get away with murder.

And he did.

Armie Hammer's great grandfather Julian

was arrested for manslaughter in 1955.

His friend Bruce came to LA
to celebrate his birthday

and reminded him that Julian
owed him $400

and Julian shot him two times.

This while Sue was pregnant
with Armie's father Michael.

The story that he told us
was self-defense.

But my mom was very quick to tell me,

"No, your father murdered someone
in cold blood."

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.

He didn't even seem like he was bothered

that he shot his friend
over the gambling debt.

You talked to him,
he was nonchalant about it.

You could get away with murder.

You could do anything,
there was no accountability.

Each generation,
the men learned very early

that money makes things go away.

It keeps people quiet.

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 him up,

as we've seen in police movies.

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.

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.

The few of us who were writing
about Hammer,

we're finding out
there was this story there

that the press had not gotten a hold of.

Hammer had successfully buried
the story of his past.

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.

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.

Julius Hammer was a founder
of the American Communist Party.

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.

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 US.

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.

Armie's great-grandfather, Armand Hammer,

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

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 US.

It was secret. It was illegal.
It was dangerous.

"Behind every great fortune
is a great crime."

Certainly, behind the Hammer fortune,

there were a great number
of great crimes.

The time for successful capitalist

earning profits in the height
of communism was over.

And Dr. Armand Hammer decided to leave

as he realized his businesses
would never triumph

under Stalin's crushing rule.

When Hammer arrived in the US
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'll show this audience
a picture of Olga.

This is your first wife here.
Here 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 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.

My father and brother hated each other.

They constantly were arguing
and bickering and fighting,

but in front of grandpa,

they were patting each other on the back

and being phony and superficial.

My brother wanted to surpass my father,

but my father wasn't going
to let that happen.

Julian was very jealous of Michael,
that I saw.

He was very jealous.

He was 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.

And my father offered my brother
a million dollars for his girlfriend.

My brother, it was like
a monster unleashed.

They both said, "I'll kill you,"
and they ran outside.

When I finally circled the building,

I saw police had separated them.

The cops didn't arrest either one
of them,

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,

"Go 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, of partying
and just all kinds of things.

Michael was the life of the party.
He was the leader of the guys.

When their group would come in,

Michael would always be
the front and center.

He was almost the stereotypical,
wealthy kid you see in teen movies.

What was his slogan?

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

He kind of always had a different girl.

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

do we have to get to know her?
There'll 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.

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.

Michael was mirroring my father.

And showing early signs
of what my father was like.

It was scary.

My name is Wendy Williams.

Casey and Michael Hammer are my cousins.

I thought 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 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.

It always appeared that Michael
was the Hammer heir,

and Casey was,
for lack of a better way to say it,

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

Michael had gotten back
in good graces with my grandfather

and then was hired at Oxy.

And so, Michael saw he could try
and manipulate my grandfather

or get above my father's hierarchy.

Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you...

Grandpa would throw parties all the time.

We'd get invited and it was a select
few of 2000 of his closest friends.

It was who's who in Hollywood,
if you got invited.

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

It was a huge deal when they were like,

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

So yeah, it's 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 want to 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 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 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.

When he got off the airplane and he said,

"I met someone,"
we were all like, "Sure."

Then when we met Dru, we thought,
oh, that's never going to 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 fiancée.

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,

"Did you break up with your fiancée?"
"No. She's fine."

"She couldn't come out tonight."

When they got married,
it was an 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 grandpas.

Everyone fawned all over him.

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

Armie, just this little cute
toe head little boy

comes up to me and Michael says,

"Will you give your aunt Casey
a hug goodbye?"

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.

Armie 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 'nother generation.

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

Millionaire Armand Hammer is dead.

He died last night at the age of 92.

I was living in Hawaii
when I got a phone call

that my grandfather had passed.

And it was that phone call that
you never thought was gonna happen.

It was from Michael.

I remember dropping the phone,

and the room spinning...

Armand Hammer philanthropist,
art collector, and industrialist...

It was a huge deal.
The coverage was incredible.

From 1921, Hammer was making deals...

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

and on all the monitors and screens,
"Armand Hammer dies."

Armand Hammer,
the son of one of the founders

of the American Communist Party,
acquired Occidental Petroleum...

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.

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

and I was just trying to make sense
of everything.

A 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 Lane Hammer, $250,000 in cash."

And then, "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.

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 dollars of cash left.

I got $250,000, my father got $500,000.

Everything else got passed on to Michael.

And at that point, you're like,
"Wait, what?"

You don't think you are 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 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.

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 few people to oppose him.

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 sad when you realize

that 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.

He didn't sound 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, 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.

Casey, was your father
sexually abusing you?

Francesca Villa Iyuno-SDI Group