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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