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All right, buckle your seatbelt.

This is going to be the bet.

If I won,

I get to come over to your house with my bag of goodies.

Inside my bag of goodies,

there are several different bundles of Shibari rope.

Shibari is the Japanese art of rope bondage.

My bet was going to involve showing up at your place

and tying you up and incapacitating you,

and then being able to do whatever I wanted

to every single hole in your body until I was done with you.

Trouble for Golden Globe nominee Armie Hammer,

known for his roles in The Social Network

and Call Me By Your Name.

Disturbing messages allegedly sent to women

by the actor Armie Hammer are trending on Twitter.

Shocking DMs allegedly sent from Armie Hammer’s public accounts

are going viral on social media.

How did Armie Hammer go from Hollywood golden boy

to an alleged abuser?

The actor Armie Hammer has been confirmed as the suspect

in an alleged sexual assault case by the Los Angeles Police Department.

I thought we were joking about that Hammer stuff,

but that’s real. I just found out that that’s real?

His aunt wrote a book about their family,

and this stuff didn’t start with Armie.

I know my grandfather had a dark side.

I saw my father's dark side firsthand,

and I've seen my brother's dark side.

And I've just heard about Armie's dark side, but I believe it.

More, more, more.

Every generation of my family has been involved in dark misdeeds.

And it just gets worse and worse and worse.

My name's Courtney Vucekovich. I am from Dallas, Texas.

I am the CEO and founder of an app called FLASHD.

I started that in 2017.

I’m here to talk about...

what happened in my relationship with Armie Hammer.

I would love to be able to paint a picture

of the red flags that I saw. And...

what happened in order for me to get in the mindset

where I was almost fully controlled by somebody.

I had lost my entire sense of self.

You’re his, completely.

I think it was November, December 2019.

I remember the lights in Highland Park Village.

They light up. It's super-gorgeous.

I was trying to enjoy a night with my friends at a bar in Dallas.

My friend said, "That's Armie Hammer from the movie."

I didn’t know who he was. But he was tall

and he didn’t dress like a frat boy, so I was like, "Oh, he's super-cute."

We, like, saw each other in passing,

spoke very briefly at the bar. And then I go home.

But then I woke up the next morning, and he had added me on Instagram.

I followed him back

and we just sat there from afar looking at each other’s lives.

He acts very goofy. I remember being like, "This is fun."

It made him feel interesting.

Breaking news tonight as the COVID-19 virus continues to spread,

forcing millions of Americans into lockdown,

non-essential business ordered to close.

Covid happened in March, so everything shut down.

My business was on pause.

So you’re, like, sitting there with your thoughts.

It was difficult. And then June 2020,

I get an Armie Hammer DM. Little blue check mark.

He just chose to speak to me one day, so I was like...

You know, in my brain I’m like,

"I’ve been doing nothing for a month. It’s COVID, this is interesting."

But I was very hesitant because I see the persona that was public,

was he’s married, and he is a father of these two beautiful kids.

So I was like, "Aren’t you married?" You know?

He’s like, "My wife and I have been separated for almost two years.

I’ve been living in New York, she lives in LA."

And I believed it, he would send me text messages

and call me every day.

Constant communication, the second he woke up

to we’d fall asleep on the phone together.

And immediately, he was just sharing all these things with me.

Intimate details about his parents, family secrets.

And I’m like, "Wow."

This is really powerful. He must feel really safe.

In return, I felt very safe telling him mine.

I had gotten out of a really, really toxic relationship,

and we were sharing just very intimate things.

A lot of the things we shared were trauma we experienced

as children.

And it is even a deeper connection.

Really rooted those bonds for me that he was so vulnerable to share,

because I never told anybody. I wanted to help him.

At the same time, he’s blowing me up with compliments.

"How could you be this beautiful, this smart, so funny?

You're such a good listener. You get me."

He's like, "I feel such an intense connection with you.

Is that crazy? Are we being crazy?" And I'm just like, "Maybe we are."

Between the love bombing and the attention,

I felt like this was all perfect. This was amazing.

Like what we are all taught to think is a fairytale when we are little.

Not only is he an actor, a pretty well-known actor.

He was gorgeous and tall.

What does he want with me?

You know, to say that it didn't have an effect...

I think it would have an effect on anybody.

Unfortunately, Armie Hammer can’t be here,

which is probably better

because we’d all be staring at him since he is such a goddamn hunk.

There's people that, if they shine their light on you,

you believe you're the only one in the room.

There is an element of that to Armie.

I know Armie through acting class.

We were in the same Tuesday night acting class for years.

I got to watch his kind of rise to stardom.

Armie had bit player roles in the beginning.

He would have a couple of lines. You know, it builds a resume.

And then he got Gossip Girl, and that was what, a couple episodes.

We were all in the same kind of boat, we were scrambling to get auditions.

The Social Network auditions kind of hit like a tornado.

Everybody was auditioning for these roles.

This is a great opportunity.

Armie was cast as the Winklevoss twins.

They had the idea for Facebook on the Harvard campus.

You know, the attributes are tall, good-looking,

comes from extreme wealth. Armie has all of those.

And I do remember hearing that David Fincher,

the director of The Social Network, liked Armie's pedigree.

These are millionaires. Who knows better than that

than the descendant of Armand Hammer?

I can’t get over what a great name Armie Hammer is.

It's a hard name when you're five as it’s short for Armand,

which is a big name for a little kid.

Named for your great grandfather, who was the billionaire owner

of Occidental Petroleum,

which sounds like the bad corporation in a Batman movie, by the way.

Armie didn't like speaking about his family or his history.

Having lived in Hollywood for 20 years,

you see the name Hammer

on museums and on parks,

so I knew that family has a lot of money and power.

My name is Seth Abramovitch. I write for The Hollywood Reporter.

When I interviewed Armie,

he was in award contention for Call Me By Your Name

and was on that teetering cusp

of establishing himself as a force to be contended with in Hollywood.

We started at Holmby Park in Westwood at his request.

There is a sign that says, "The Armand Hammer Golf Course."

I was like, "Look, it’s your great-grandfather’s name."

Dr. Hammer parlayed outstanding private success into public power

as chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum,

a diversified 16-billion-dollar company.

Dr. Armand Hammer is one of the world’s leading capitalists.

Armie’s a very handsome actor who came out of privilege

and the history of his family is interesting.

No typical childhood.

So right away, I was intrigued by who this person was.

Armie was born in Santa Monica, California,

and he said his father made an unusual decision

which was to move the family to the Cayman Islands.

He and his young brother were brought there from a young age.

I was curious. Why the Cayman Islands?

I associate the Cayman Islands

with offshore bank accounts that can’t be touched,

so I assumed it was something financial.

They return to Los Angeles, I think he was in 7th grade.

And Armie started pursuing this idea

he had when he was younger. He wanted to be an actor.

The Social Network started his career.

He starred opposite Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield.

It was the movie of the year. That was what made him.

I remember bumping into him, and all of the sudden,

there's Armie in a three-piece suit,

looking amazing, looking like a movie star.

It’s official. I have arrived.

And Elizabeth was with him.

- I’m here with my beautiful wife. - Hi.

The roles just kept coming,

where he was always playing the handsome man.

But the problem was, it was a wave of box office bombs after bombs.

You know, these movies weren’t hitting.

What movie besides Social Network had really made money?

Thankfully, Call Me By Your Name happened

and got him buzzing again.

There was this buzz everywhere you looked

in the run up to this movie coming out.

It just sounded very daring, very sexy.

The two of them together being sexual on screen

was going to make headlines.

He was taking a real risk.

Hollywood loves when an actor takes a risk like that.

So that buzz is what pushed him onto our cover.

You were reading about him all the time. People cared more.

He was doing massive press for the movie

as he was on an Oscar campaign.

"Your fans want to hear from you."

You could say Armie started cosplaying the life

of kind of a perfect movie star, if you will.

He seemed to be doing things the exact right way.

He had the picture-perfect marriage, he had two children,

everything he described was much lovey-dovey, fairy tale.

He came from this family of wealth and privilege,

and his career was swimming.

Generally, you did not get the whiff of scandal around him.

There was one thing that repeatedly came up

when I talked to people and told them I was profiling him,

and it was about that he had a sort of edgy interest in BDSM sex.

I did bring it up,

and he shut me down pretty decisively.

He said he has less of a comment than even if he had no comment.

Julia. Are you okay to bring up your phone

so we can talk about some of those examples?

I haven’t really digested this one.

He says, "I have a fantasy

about having someone prove their love and devotion

and tying them up in a public place at night

and making their body free use

and seeing if they will fuck strangers for me."

When I saw that Armie Hammer was following me,

it was about a week before quarantine.

And I looked up his Instagram,

and I said, "Oh, it's the guy from The Social Network ."

Like, he's a big movie star. He was just in Call Me By Your Name.

I opened up my messages with the intention of saying,

"Thanks for the follow," or something like that.

And I had seen that he had already messaged me in 2017.

And it was this long message.

He was inquiring about a series of photographs of me.

And when I reached out back to him almost exactly three years later...

he got back to me within an hour, and then we just started talking.

My name is Julia Morrison. I am an artist and writer

based in New York and Los Angeles.

That series of artworks is titled For Arabella

by an artist named Sarah Bahbah.

They are about a toxic relationship and breaking free from that.

You have very existentialist sorts of captions with beautiful girls.

A lot of them are quite provocative.

I did ask him which artworks of that series he was drawn in by.

He said he liked that photo of me being choked.

He started saying like, "You’re so perfect.

It’s like you were made for me."

Which is ironic, because, you know, he completely missed the message.

Being a young woman in this industry

where you're modeling, acting, making art,

people shower you with compliments,

and you're like, "My shit's tight. Why wouldn't they be obsessed?"

So, like, I mean, I don’t want to sound totally full of myself,

but, no, I was not fully alarmed. I was more intrigued.

He invited me to a play really early on.

Within a few hours really of our conversation was, you know,

"Oh, are you in New York?

I'm working on a play here. Do you want to come?"

And I was interested in going, and then lockdown happens.

Shortly after, things became sexual in conversation.

It didn’t really seem that unnatural, at first, for me

because of the context of the times we were going through in that moment.

You know, my friends were telling me about zoom dates

and phone sex with so and so from, you know, Hinge or Tinder.

And I'm speaking with Armie Hammer like this in my Instagram DMs.

Once the sexual nature of the DMs started,

it was all he wanted to ever talk about.

He says to me, "Fine. Let's be open and honest.

I've wanted to tie you up since I saw the pictures and messaged you.

Shibari is how it's spelled, it's the Japanese art of rope bondage

with its cousin Kinbaku for total restraint."

And then he was saying to me about how if I were to submit to him

at the level where he could, you know,

call me and say one word and get me to come on command,

like Pavlovian dog style.

Like kind of getting you into this submissive space

where, like, you know, he's, you know, the dominant...

These are messages being sent within seconds of each other.

You know, very heavy and very frequent.

"Let me take care of everything? You don't worry about anything

except being a good little pet, my own personal little slave.

In return, you will be worshipped, fed, and fucked.

I was like, "Like."

But those little hearts means you're engaged

or that you received it.

That’s different than being in an intimate space with someone.

All of that very forward talk

was kind of like back and forth for six months.

But I did Google and see that he had, you know, had a family.

And so I figured a man who is married who is doing that with me,

I am not naïve enough to think that I’m the only one.

For July 4th,

he tells me he was doing this road trip.

He was going Miami to LA, and cross through Texas.

I had plans to go to The Hamptons with some friends.

It was already set.

And he almost got upset with me that I was going to be gone

when he was driving through.

Somebody had my phone

and, "Somebody named Armie has called you 22 times."

He sends me a picture, when I'm away,

of my building in Dallas.

At this point, we’ve never spent time together, so it was weird.

I remember being like, "Are we flirting, or is this scary?"

I get back from New York, and he left me this note.

"Oh, this will be a cute note."

I open the envelope, and it says, "I'll bite the fuck out of you."

And then he autographed this note.

I didn’t know how to feel about the note.

You know it was like...

He talks sweetly sometimes on the phone,

compliments and compliments.

And I get a note that says, "I'll bite the fuck out of you."

As crazy as that sounds, I took it metaphorically.

I thought he wanted the intimacy, the closeness,

wanted us to be together.

So I chose to look at it as more flattering than concerning.

When I told my friends about us, I left that part out.

I think that says a lot.

Elizabeth Chambers

and her actor-husband Armie Hammer split.

On Friday, the movie star shared the news in an Instagram post.

Quote, "It has been an incredible journey,

but together we’ve decided

to turn the page and move on from our marriage."

They released a joint statement, interestingly.

They'd be supportive of each other.

"This was an amicable split.

We’ve grown apart, we’ve done everything."

There’s this thing of, like,

if you get married young, if you have kids young,

eventually, you are going to have a mid-life crisis

or something that you’ll explore these darker sides.

Or was that Armie all along?

I was coming to LA to see a friend.

After talking constantly, Armie and I were like, "Okay, we have to meet."

This is a new experience to me.

I've never been with somebody like this.

He's like, "We're going on an adventure, to the desert."

This is flirty, fun, different,

but bizarre, risky. I've never met this man.

So I’m freaking out.

I’m so anxious.

I didn't know what was going to happen.

When I got to LA,

the plan was, Armie would pick me up after I had dinner with my friends.

I was very nervous. So was he, he was texting me like,

"I can’t believe this, I’m so nervous."

He pulls his truck up, and I had my dog,

and I had a little suitcase.

We saw each other, we kissed on the lips immediately.

I think we were both like, "What?" It just felt natural.

I got in the car, and then we were off to the desert.

It was very surreal. I’d spent, like, the last month talking to this person

five hours a day, and then you are spending time with each other.

We spent every day together for the next three weeks.

We spent a lot of time in 29 Palms.

Armie's friend owns a motel that he's renovating.

They’ve painted it.

I have a picture of my little dog under this, like, motel sign.

Here is where we would have, like...

you know, like, dinners right here on this long table,

candle-lit dinners. We didn't leave each other's side.

If my chair was a foot away from his, he's pulling my chair over.

He’s always like... His hand's on my leg.

Even the first day we met, his hand was always just on my knee,

Always touching me, showing affection,

making me feel really comfortable and really safe.

It was so hot. So I'd be in a bikini all day, on the back of the scooter.

At night, we would go by the pool at the back of the motel

and put a projector out and a screen and just watch E.T.

It felt like... I don’t know, it felt like another world. It felt magical.

We really connected just as two people,

not a famous actor and...

me, who’s a very private person. I’m just a business owner in Dallas.

It's not me to drop everything and leave for a man.

I've never been like that.

I was starting to fall for him, for sure.

I wouldn’t have said "I love you," but it was heading towards that.

I took a picture right there,

a post to remember how happy I am for a second.

I truly was so fucking happy.

I was like, "I can’t believe this is happening to me."

But there were times that something didn't feel right.

This is at this tractor supply where he looked for those ropes.

He would take me in the rope section.

They were out of rope, and I was just like, thankful.

I'm just like, "Okay, let’s go."

I think that's when he sensed that was out of my comfort zone,

so he kind of softened.

One night he was like, "Watch this movie."

It's called Secretary. It is one of his favorite movies.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is the assistant to this lawyer.

He was training her to be very submissive.

She acts as the desk,

or she'll do the stapler with her chin,

or do everything for him.

And I just was like, "Is this what he wants from me?"

And...

there was one thing that happened to me.

I don’t even like to think about it.

The situation that happened was something...

I didn’t...

It’s something you speak about before it’s done,

and we didn’t speak about this. I...

It was something that has never been done to me,

and it is something that is very degrading, belittling.

And I just don’t...

I don't like to... I don’t want to put it out there.

And then I’m like, "Holy shit. I’ve got to get back to my life."

So I go home.

I broke down in the shower. Crying in the shower.

And I got this wave of anxiety.

It was like my body was trying to be like, "Something is not right."

But I put it out of my mind because when we talk, it's like,

"I miss you so much, you should move to LA, be my girlfriend."

He needed me. And it felt nice.

And so we saw each other about a week later.

He is, like, giving me quality time, and constant communication, and PDA.

You just feel so loved.

Together, it felt good. But when we were apart, I had this...

pit in my stomach.

We didn’t have say if where we were exclusive,

but we have these talks

where I'm not supposed to be with anybody, just him.

He wants control of me,

and I didn’t have the capacity to think about another soul

because he is sending me a thousand texts and a hundred calls.

I wasn’t going on dates. That is how he wanted it.

Actress Rumer Willis was spotted on a date with Armie Hammer.

The couple were photographed walking around LA.

According to an insider, he’s not looking for a relationship.

And they denied claims that he is currently dating anyone.

The thing with Rumer happened, and...

he said it didn’t mean anything,

but I remember seeing

the way his hand was around her.

He’s very aggressive with his hands.

He always wanted to be hand on me, hand on my arm, hugging me, always.

But the way he was touching her made me feel even smaller.

And I felt betrayed,

so I tried to end it.

I was supposed to come back to LA in September.

By this time, he had moved into this teeny, tiny pool house.

I go to the teeny, tiny pool house, and I’m like, "I'm going to end it."

I was like, "You're hurting me. I can't do this anymore."

And he said, "No, you're gonna have to block me and do all these things."

I leave, we're both crying.

The next day, I go to my friend’s in Beverly Hills.

We were on a walk, and he showed up on his scooter where we were walking.

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

And I fell right back into it. I thought it was romantic.

"He's fighting for me."

And instead of going back to Dallas, we went on another road trip.

When you really care for somebody, it's crazy what your mind

is willing to look past or justify.

But then there are these things that keep happening that...

I would have hand marks that would stay on my body.

I think Armie took that picture.

He bites hard, and he tells you to wear them like a badge of honor.

Almost like he convinced me I'm lucky to have it. It’s, like...

As fucked up as that sounds,

at that time, I was interpreting that as love.

Looking at it now makes me sick.

And he pushes your boundaries a little bit at a time.

And the tone of the next trip just felt different from the beginning.

This time, when he picked me up,

I saw a brown bag and it had ropes in it.

We drove through Sedona.

We get to this hotel.

We have dinner.

He has this gin vermouth. Like, he orders four of these.

I've had one margarita.

And it’s like we're not getting along.

He's in a weird mood. Nothing about the moment felt good.

And then he mentions the ropes. My heart dropped in my stomach.

He told me he's only ever tied up mannequins, never people.

He wants to share this with me, his fantasy, this experience.

Something new that he's never tried with anybody.

I was like, "I’m not in the mood, I don’t feel well."

And he just acted mad, would look away.

I just was like, "How do I get out of this?"

Then that night, he was drunk. I was not.

And...

I didn’t say no.

I said, "I didn't feel good." I said everything except no.

So he puts on this creepy playlist,

and...

Just like...

Like... It's... Like, the ropes were around your neck,

your wrists, your ankles behind your back. It’s like...

I mean, had bruises. I hated it. It’s like...

I understand if this is your fantasy or your thing, more power to you.

But this was not. I didn't like it. And it’s like...

It didn't feel safe or, like...

I didn't feel, like, loved, or...

It was just horrible. And you're completely immobilized.

And it's like... There’s something about trauma...

while you're immobilized and can't move.

There's that fight or flight, you can't do either, you're stuck.

I'm just closing my eyes until it ended.

And then he just went to sleep like it was nothing.

Can we take a break?

I almost didn't want to make it real by writing it down.

But...

After that night, this is what I took away from it.

"Armie wanted total control of me and absolute compliance,

destroying any sense of bodily autonomy.

His ultimate fantasy."

That scenario in Sedona, I really started to kind of unravel.

It didn’t sit well with me,

but then it's followed up with him pulling me even closer

and being like, "I want you to meet my mom,"

which is huge to me.

I think that’s a really big deal. It felt like, "Okay."

You know I’m just clinging to little things to make this okay.

The situation with the ropes was three days before I met his mom.

At that point, it was like a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

There was just like, too much had happened.

We broke up two days after meeting his mom.

I knew something about him would come up in the future

because I know how careless he is. I know how he texts

and he just leaves trails of all this madness everywhere.

I woke up on the second week of January, I got my coffee,

I sat down, and I started opening up Twitter and combing through.

My name is Candice Cronkhite, and my IG handle is bbfbravo.

I have always been interested in pop culture.

I like deep diving in people’s backgrounds

why they are how they are,

and curating things that the public may not know about a person.

I passed by a screenshot of a DM with the headline,

"Armie Hammer's ex-girlfriend is leaking his DMs."

All of these screengrabs pulled on Twitter were coming

from an anonymous account called House of Effie.

When I opened up that first text, it was shocking.

The content you're reading, you’re like, "This is kinky,"

to progressively getting darker and darker.

Like, "This is shocking," to, "This is disturbing."

After a couple of text messages, I would see this one

posted by House of Effie.

"You were the most intense and extreme version that I've ever had.

Raping you on your floor with a knife against you.

Everything else seemed boring.

You crying and screaming, me standing over you.

I felt like a god.

I've never felt such power or intensity."

There are some kinky things or things you are unfamiliar with.

But the idea that somebody gets off on raping somebody,

and that is what they're pretending to do, it’s...

I can't. It's just really sick.

And so I couldn't stop.

I had to do a story, because I could tell that this was going to be big.

Armie Hammer has been in hot water over leaked texts.

Due to community guidelines, I can't say what it’s about,

you can head over to my IG highlights to see for yourself.

Sadly, I saw people laugh it off

and not believe House of Effie

and give it the attention it deserves.

In January, I see a message from the DeuxMoi account.

It’s a gossip account.

She knew that Armie and I had been together in a relationship,

because my name had already been leaked,

and so DeuxMoi would talk about it.

The DeuxMoi account was posting these screenshots

from an account called House of Effie.

And they were really sexually violent messages.

So she messaged me.

"Is this true?"

I know how this man speaks. I could write it.

I've seen it a million times.

I know the language he uses, punctuation he uses.

He always used the word "kitten."

He'd be like, "Hi, my little kitten." That was very common.

The messages that House of Effie was showing,

he said this exact same word to me.

I was like, "That's 100 percent Armie."

At that point, I wanted to validate what House of Effie was saying.

The next morning, my life just blew up.

Armie Hammer’s ex-girlfriend Courtney Vucekovich...

Vucekovich has come forward with claims against her ex.

Once Courtney was willing to go on the record, this story blew open.

It was about abuse, and power, and gaslighting.

He said things like he wanted to barbecue and eat her.

What is happening with Armie Hammer?

Disturbing and racy messages allegedly sent to women

by the actor Armie Hammer are trending on Twitter.

Shocking DMs allegedly sent from Armie Hammer’s public accounts

are going viral on social media.

His sexually graphic texts and DMs of dominating,

BDSM, and even cannibalism began trending.

This specific one that she posted really shocked people.

He said, "I'm 100 percent a cannibal."

He said, "It feels weird saying it." I can picture him saying it vividly.

And then he said that he shot a deer and then ate its heart.

There's this whole darker underbelly that starts getting you sicker.

He's talking about wanting to eat flesh.

Really, really horrific things and imagery.

Where does this end?

At this point, people were running with the cannibalism.

I'm loco, Four Loko Mad like Hannibal

But not like Armie Hammer That dude’s a cannibal

Nobody cared about anything except the word "cannibal."

Pretending like it was all a joke.

It didn't sit well with me, because it wasn't a joke.

Now it's entertainment.

Now we're like... We’re leaned in, waiting to see how dark this is.

While the DMs remain unverified, the stories have kept coming in.

Once Courtney came forward, other women started coming forward.

One of them was the writer Jessica.

She said, if anyone's questioning whether these DMs are real,

I'm here to tell you that they are.

Paige Lorenze was another woman involved with Armie Hammer.

She told her whole story, and she did not hold back.

He kind of took me under his wing, and he really was so all-consuming.

He made me feel like it was a safe space,

like this was normal, he made me feel as this was fun and sexy.

But I think he used BDSM as a smokescreen ultimately

to hurt women and inflict pain, which is the scariest part.

Hollywood is a very business-oriented industry.

And now after #MeToo happened and Time's Up,

nobody is taking a chance on anybody.

Armie Hammer has been dropped from the film Shotgun Wedding

which he was due to be starring in with Jennifer Lopez.

Armie said in a statement, "In light of the attacks against me,

I cannot, in good conscience, leave my children

for four months to shoot."

As allegations start to come out that seem to have substance,

they're dropping you like a hot potato.

WME immediately dropped Armie Hammer.

Armie Hammer has been fighting for his career

after being plagued by a social media scandal.

It was always, "What will Armie do? He lost this movie deal."

Nobody was talking about the victims.

I just felt like I couldn’t leave this story alone.

I wanted to figure out more about him,

wondering what different things has he dropped

that we have all been missing.

The first thing I saw was an interview

where he was talking about tying a rope within 30 seconds.

People get thrilled when you pull out rope at a party.

And it was like, "That's weird."

You look through the Twitter, at who he's following on Instagram.

He followed a lot of Shibari accounts which is a form of Japanese bondage,

a lot of women in suggestive poses.

And then there was an article on Playboy.

Armie Hammer, in Playboy, said he likes rough sex,

he likes to pull hair, maybe a bit of choking,

but he would never do it to his wife because he respects her too much.

I found more DMs that were showing more texts,

and more and more and more content

relating to him being involved in the BDSM world.

I was just confused about it beyond Fifty Shades of Grey.

I found out that if you set these predetermined boundaries

and they're crossed over and over again, that is a problem.

The more I researched, the more I’ve found what he did

are actually not BDSM, but he is calling them BDSM.

But it's actually unsafe behavior that would normally be criminal.

When I looked into it, you could tell this was not BDSM.

This was getting darker.

This looked like abuse.

And then Effie of Instagram account House of Effie came forward.

She had hired famed attorney Gloria Allred

who's known for advocating for women.

Effie is 24 years old, and she lives in Europe.

She had a romantic and an intimate relationship with Armie Hammer,

on and off, between 2016 to 2020.

Effie issued a statement that was an absolute bombshell.

I'm Attorney Gloria Allred.

I'm a women's rights attorney in Los Angeles.

I’m a partner in the law firm.

I deal with many victims of rape, sexual assault,

and sexual harassment.

I do represent Effie.

Victims need to have support if they're going to come forward

against a rich, powerful, famous figure.

They shouldn't have to do it alone.

Doing it alone is dangerous, it's frightening.

This is not for the faint of heart.

I met Armie Hammer on Facebook in 2016 when I was 20 years old.

The relationship progressed rapidly,

and the emotions from both sides became really intense.

He would often test my devotion to him.

Finally removing and crossing my boundaries

as he became increasingly more violent.

He abused me mentally, emotionally and sexually.

How can you see somebody breaking down like that

and not feel for it? And, oh, it was hard to watch.

On April 24th, 2017, Armie Hammer...

violently raped me for over four hours in Los Angeles...

during which he repeatedly slammed my head against the wall,

bruising my face.

During those four hours, I tried to get away, but he wouldn’t let me.

The way that she was speaking through her story, through tears,

and her conviction about what she had been through,

I just thought, every woman thinks,

"Oh, God, that could have been me, and it’s been close to being me."

And in other situations, "It has been me."

So I was really grateful...

for what she had done, and her bravery of coming forward.

She came forward and told everything.

He also committed other acts of violence against me,

to which I did not consent.

It launched a police investigation within the LAPD

The actor Armie Hammer has been confirmed as the suspect

in an alleged sexual assault case by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Right now, Armie's being represented by Andrew Brettler, who's known

for his defense of people accused of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct.

And that seemed a very strategic move.

And in a statement,

vehemently denied any wrongdoing on behalf of his client.

I know his attorney well.

We've had many cases against that firm.

And I have said many years ago, and it's still true today,

that firm represents Hollywood bad boys,

and I represent the women they hurt.

Even in BDSM relationships, consent is still at the heart of it.

It doesn't mean that anyone can do anything

to anyone during a sexual relationship.

If she withdraws her consent and he continues,

that's a crime. Simple as that.

Kinky is not against the law, rape is.

I do think a lot of women and men can relate to engaging with somebody

who presented themselves in an almost too-good-to-be-true way

that was just a manipulation tactic that led to really bad behavior.

My name is Lauren Skae. I go by TheZenBlonde on social media.

Armie’s lawyers call the claims outrageous

and said that all of his encounters were consensual.

I saw the Hammer case unfolding, and in hearing the stories,

I wanted to amplify them to push them towards justice.

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

It was tips about the whole family. Armie is not only a famous actor

but a famous actor whose family is an institution.

And then eventually, my friend just tipped me off

that the Hammer family was crazy, and that there were books about it.

Casey Hammer is Armie Hammer's aunt. I found Casey's book on Audible,

so I downloaded it and started listening to it.

And literally, I could not believe what I was hearing.

That is when I understood the red down her front was blood.

She was screaming for my father to stop.

I could see pain and fear shooting out from her eyes.

I heard her voice in my head, "Run, run!"

I was paralyzed with fear.

I was so infuriated by the book. For me, just observing it from afar,

it seemed like it was a multi-generational trend

that very wealthy, privileged men

got away with different bad things throughout these generations.

I’m on Google and, "I can’t be the one that tied this together."

This has to be something known. I’m late to the story."

And realizing that nobody knows this and then feeling like

I need to put this out,

this needs to be part of the narrative.

I have a new development.

His aunt wrote a book about their family.

The 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 posted everything in succession as I was still listening to the book.

The first video went viral,

and everyone jumped to the videos after.

And some people were literally watching them live.

She found photos of her dad, again Armie’s grandfather,

watching as one of the housekeepers performed a sexual act on a man.

I have to say, like, things exploded on TikTok really quickly.

It grew overnight.

When it went viral, I was like, "Oh, no. This is a real human.

I should have maybe alerted her that I was doing this?"

Someone texted me and said, "Someone’s blowing you up on TikTok."

I remember pulling up that video, and I was watching comments

on the screen, things like,

"Are you sure it’s his aunt? Did anybody do a DNA test?"

I mean, it makes sense.

I had been erased from the family.

She actually reposted me on Instagram.

"I don’t know who you are, but thank you."

Part of me was kind of pleased because the world was finding out.

And the other part of me was, "Oh, my God, I’m dead.

My brother’s going to fucking kill me."

What Armie is experiencing came from, I'm convinced,

maybe even further back than my grandfather.

Because you just don't wake up...

and become this dark controller, abuser.

There has to be a seed that's planted.

My grandfather built an oil empire.

He had politicians in his back pocket.

He never took no for an answer.

His life was all about secrets.

My father had loaded guns all over the house.

He used to shoot at me. It was terrifying.

That’s the sign of a true monster. You can look in the mirror

and not see any fault or that you're doing anything wrong.

And that's how deep it goes with my brother.

And that's why he's so scary, because he has no conscience.

Now it's Armie.

Every generation of my family has been involved in dark misdeeds,

and it just gets worse and worse and worse.

There's so much beneath the surface now it's finally coming to light.

My name is Casey Hammer, and I’m about to reveal

the dark, twisted secrets of the Hammer family.

Francesca Villa Iyuno-SDI Group