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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'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.

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 we would learn how to address the royalty.

It was just this kind of 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 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.

How did Armie Hammer go from Hollywood golden boy

to an alleged abuser

in the space of one evening in January?

When all this came out about Armie,

I was not shocked.

Sexually graphic texts and DMs

of dominating, BDSM,

and even cannibalism began 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 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.

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?"

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 chessboard,

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 Los Angeles.

Maybe I should say 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.

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.

Buckingham Palace, the White House...

They were all at his disposal

and at his bidding.

- Mr. Hammer? - Yes?

Oh, this is the President, how are you?

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

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.

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.

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 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."

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.

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.

So, 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.

A major news publication posted a video,

and it showed Armie holding his phone,

walking into his room.

All right, so far, so good.

Uh, that 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 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."

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.

More, one more.

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.

Ah.

It seems like each generation

was impacted with a number of women

who had been wronged by the Hammer family.

Armie, looking up here. Right here, over here for me.

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.

There we go.

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?

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 of 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 by 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 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...

It was Martha Kauffman, yes.

- But down here, the same woman is Hilary Gibson... - 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.

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.

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.'"

Stop!

You're welcome and Casey's welcome.

I'm 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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."

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.

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.

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 '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.

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.

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 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.

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 United States.

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 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.

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.

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.

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...

and my father offered my brother

$1 million for his girlfriend.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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."

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?"

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.

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.

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 TV screens, "Armand Hammer Dies."

Armand Hammer, the son of one of the founders

of the American Communist Party, acquired Occidental...

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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.