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The Hammer men, you just don't know what's hiding

behind their personality or behind their demeanor.

And it's really apparent with Armie.

What's coming out publicly, about the love bombing

and the texting, and the controlling.

I'm not surprised by any of that.

And it weirds and scares a lot of people.

But for me, it's really familiar.

If you believe about making deals with the devil,

the Hammers are top of the totem pole.

After the documentary was announced and before we started filming,

I received a text and it was a friend. She said,

"Casey, be careful.

Seems to me that you are opening Pandora's box.

Don't go out after dark.

Always check to make sure you're not being followed.

Keep your name off a mailbox, unlisted phone,

watch your surroundings for a stranger's face

that appears more than once.

Be "aware" and "beware."

I have this reoccurring dream.

It starts with this motel sign.

But in my dream, the motel just keeps going.

Something worse is happening in each room.

And I can't get the fuck out.

And there's no way out.

So you have to go through the whole thing again.

The scenario with the ropes in Sedona was six days before I met his mom.

After that, it was horrible.

I completely disassociated.

I wanted to get as far away from him,

as far away from what had happened.

I always keep a journal.

This piece is something I wrote on my way

to my first treatment center on October 5th.

This was on the plane,

"It's 2:25 on the flight to rehab.

Not sure why the fuck I'm going here.

All I know is I don't give a fuck what happens to me.

I don't want to die, I don't think. But I'm not trying not to.

I don't see a way out of this one.

I surrendered to him 100%.

Gave him anything good I had left.

What in the fuck is wrong with you?

He used me in every way possible for months.

And I fucking let him, I feel absolutely numb

and small and disgusting and ugly."

While I was in rehab,

some idiot texted me, "Armie has a new girlfriend."

And I looked her up.

The first thing I thought, she was really young.

She's gorgeous.

But she posted a picture. It was kind of a lingerie picture.

She had bruises all over her arms, her chest, her legs.

I could see the bruises, and I knew what that picture was.

He says wear it like a badge of honor.

My heart fucking sank because I was like,

he'll do this to somebody who's 22 years old.

What he just did to me. I was 30.

She's 22. I know how it is in the beginning.

And I just like I knew what she felt at the time.

She looked so happy, like I was there.

He was on to the next one who's younger, maybe more naive,

maybe more impressed with his fame.

It was, he was off to do it to her.

I had just got out of a two-year-long relationship

and I moved to LA. I'd never been to LA before.

That was my second time ever going.

My first impressions of him were charming,

he captivated the room.

He was just full of life, loving, charismatic, kind of the person

that we see in the interviews and the person that we see on screen.

He really was so all consuming, and he made me feel like

it was a safe space, and this was normal.

It felt like it was going to be fun and sexy.

He carried safety pins, Shibari rope, knives,

like a paddle, a lot of the BDSM tools.

He would always travel with it wherever he went

and whenever he came over to my home in LA.

He said he wanted to find a doctor in Los Angeles to remove my ribs.

He wanted to eat my ribs, he wanted to smoke them.

He's obsessed with meat.

I brushed it off, but I do believe that he was serious.

He would set up things called "high protocol nights."

You set up a night with strict rules and it's all built around

inflicting pain on the submissive one in the relationship, which was me.

I didn't know what BDSM was. So I thought that that was normal.

To me, it's obvious that Armie Hammer chose people

who didn't have any experience in BDSM

because it gives him an advantage to prey upon these people.

They're more easily coerced because they don't know what BDSM really is.

I had no idea what I was getting into

and looking back, it's like very dangerous.

The traditional motto of BDSM is "safe, sane and consensual."

Most commonly in the dom/sub relationship,

the scenes are all centered around the sub's fantasies.

Safety and trust are right there.

It's the foundation of the BDSM relationship.

On one of these high protocol nights, I was tied up

and he basically looked over my body and said to me,

"Where should I put my initials on you?"

And then he just started to carve his initial into me

and I just didn't say anything.

It was bleeding and he was licking it,

drinking kind of like the blood.

Yeah. That's heavy.

The part that stands out is him coming to her

and said, where should I put my initials?

And then he just proceeded to cut her.

So there was no negotiations before the scene about it.

She is in a very vulnerable position because she is feeling submissive.

She's in a state of wanting to please him.

She doesn't want to say no.

I was in a weak position. He was in a position of power.

He knew how uncomfortable it made me, but I just never said no.

I think being coerced into things

and we don't want to say no, we don't want to be undesirable.

It's traumatizing.

I was vulnerable.

I was groomed by him.

Someone who's getting off on somebody else's fear,

when that person feels uncomfortable about it,

is not a kinkster doing BDSM.

That person is an abuser.

That's very sad to think about when you look back

you realize it was abuse and manipulation.

It wasn't somebody that cared for you

and you fell into their trap so gracefully.

When the abuse allegations came out,

it was a mixture of shocked and not shocked.

I had an opportunity to work with Armie Hammer.

What I had experienced was nothing compared to what

they had experienced,

but the same kind of qualities were there.

Basically every story I have to tell about him can be rooted in

I control you because you're my employee.

Armie puts on this beautiful face to everybody.

We're trying to make a damn movie. Everybody needs to calm down.

You could work with him the entire movie

and never see through that façade.

Behind closed doors, it's different.

There was one instance where he told me this old friend of his

was coming and he wanted me to go to airport

and hold up a sign in the airport that said, "faggot."

I have chills thinking about it right now.

If I said no to him about something, he'd try and find ways to shame me,

and this time he took a poll from everybody.

Should I fire him because he won't do what I told him to do?

It was a big joke or whatever, and he kept really pushing

because he thought it'd be funny.

We ended up at a strip club once.

10:00 a.m. on a Tuesday.

Me and Armie and other actors and other crew members

and lording his position and my position over my head,

forced me into getting a lap dance.

I was very against it, I didn't want to do it,

I felt incredibly uncomfortable, but he basically ended up again

saying, "I'm your superior, you need to do this."

And so he made me believe that I had no choice.

I could have walked away

but you just get scared of the stature of it all,

the job title and the person.

- Do you do dangerous things? - Yeah, I like to.

It just snowballed.

We would get into his car and we would do 140 miles an hour,

like through residential streets while he was inebriated.

And it would scare me like crazy.

My wife was convinced that I had what she called

a frontal lobe issue, which I guess, she says that's where you assess risk

and danger. And she says mine is just severely underdeveloped.

It was this daredevil machismo and exerting power.

I want to be helpful to people that need it.

There are a lot of women that have had their lives

irreparably damaged by all of this.

It's like Dante's Inferno.

It's going to get worse, the deeper down you go.

At the bottom it’s just Armie.

I knew Armie came from wealth.

There are stories about his connection to Armand Hammer.

I would say, had I chosen to sort of follow the family's path

and gone in business it'd have been more advantageous.

He told me about growing up in the Caymans

and how his father bought a mansion there

because he had seen The Firm.

That's rich people shit.

I feel like with wealthy families, there's always a dark story there.

No one can ever be totally normal when you have that much wealth.

And Armie’s father is the picture-perfect example of that.

Michael and Dru basically walked away with everything

after my grandfather died.

They took control of the Hammer Foundation,

his estate, and millions of dollars.

There were famous rabbis at his funeral and he literally

was supposed to have bar mitzvah the day after he died.

Dru’s father in the middle of Armand Hammer's funeral

declared Armand had changed his religion

and accepted Jesus on his death bed.

Dru's father says that before Armand died, he said,

"I accept Christ."

And all these people's jaws just fell open.

Michael Hammer had $40 million in that trust

and he is now taking Armand's funds

and putting them into all of these evangelical causes,

Christian organizations and Christian universities.

It feels like he rewrote the script for his grandfather

and it just doesn't seem like things are being handled in the way

Armand would have wanted.

Michael technically worked for Occidental for like another year.

And then he left Oxy.

Michael didn’t want to carry on the name for my grandfather at all.

You have Michael,

who is the most Christian man out there to the public,

but at the same time, behind the scenes,

it’s clear to me that there was some bad behavior.

Hang on to your hats, guys.

The Armie Hammer article dropped and the tea is piping hot.

Michael Hammer, Armie’s father, seems he passed down

some of his proclivities to his son.

The sex throne, I heard about a confirmed photo...

so, it's seven feet tall...

and there's also the Hammer insignia, their family crest on the throne.

People claimed that Michael boasted about a sex throne or naughty chair,

and kept it Hammer foundation headquarters.

It is 7 feet high and features a chair

with a hole in the seat and a cage underneath and a hook.

There's a hook, like a meat hook,

and I... almost don't even want to imagine

what somebody would do with this.

In a photo Michael sits on it grinning

while holding the head of a blonde woman,

sitting in the cage, also smiling.

Michael's lawyer came out and said that this was a gag gift.

It seems like large gag gift

and a customized gag gift to give.

Sex thrones most certainly do not align with a Christian image.

"Like father, like son."

It’s such a façade.

I think we’re all seeing the pattern.

It’s just generation to generation.

We all know Armie’s public persona.

His team and his family kind of curates this image around him.

The Hammers are very keen on presenting themselves

for public consumption in a certain way.

And so Armie Hammer used the same practices as his father,

Michael, and his great-grandfather, Armand Hammer.

You don’t see what’s going on behind the curtain.

Armand Hammer had many secrets.

When Armand Hammer died, to my surprise,

Julian Hammer gave me a great deal of material.

He gave me all his private papers.

As well as recordings of his father.

I think that it was because, very simply spoken,

he hated what his father had done in cutting him out of his will.

He decided that he was going to expose his father as a criminal.

Occidental would’ve been a small oil company

which we wouldn’t even know the name today,

except Hammer was a master at bribery.

Armand Hammer would go to a powerful person.

He would offer them money, illegal cash bribes.

He would deliver the money.

And Julian would record the entire crime being committed

so he could later blackmail the person.

When this thing is done, how much do we pay?

In total amount of money? Three million dollars.

I guess that money talks!

Very little shocks me, I should say.

But the tapes he gave me shocked me.

Who is the collector?

The collector has changed and is now the president's secretary.

That’s the President of Venezuela he is bribing.

Hammer had no shame.

He ignored all laws.

Armand Hammer built his own business empire

on a great number of great crimes.

The extraordinary thing about the Hammer family

is the consistency of vice over virtue.

I shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow.

In the movie All the President's Men,

which was about the Watergate scandal,

Deep Throat says, "Follow the money."

If they did, they would've found that it led to Armand Hammer.

Hammer made illegal campaign contributions to politicians.

I saw it first-hand that the political establishment

is buyable from top to bottom.

This money was used to pay off the Watergate burglars.

Hammer orchestrated a cover up where other people lied.

And when that collapsed,

Hammer had to plead guilty to a misdemeanor.

Today, Hammer pleaded guilty of hiding contributions

to the Nixon re-election campaign.

Having an outstanding conviction was bad for business,

and he saw creating a relationship with Prince Charles...

"I am indebted to Dr. Hammer."

...as a way of making himself respectable again.

He knew that everybody has a price.

With Prince Charles he just had to discover what that price would be.

When Prince Charles and Diana visited the United States,

their only unofficial non-state occasion

was the gala that Hammer threw for them.

On the front pages of every newspaper,

every magazine their visit was the top story.

And in the end Hammer provided 40 million pounds

to Prince Charles's causes, which would add up

to like a quarter of a billion today.

And Charles did see Hammer as a source

of funds for everything he cared about.

How on Earth, do they expect us to get anything done without money?

I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States.

George Bush Sr. did give him a pardon over the Watergate scandal.

Why did Bush pardon him?

Hammer was a major contributor to both political parties.

Hammer told me his private golden rule was

the person with the gold makes the rules.

I had reservations about the way he presented himself.

But it was only really from '88 that my eyes were fully open

to the lying on which his life was based.

Now the situation in the North Sea

where an Occidental Petroleum oil rig blew up.

Piper Alpha was a platform owned by Occidental in the North Sea.

It was the cornerstone of Occidental's wealth.

Mayday mayday. Explosion and fire on the Piper...

In July 1988, there was an accident on Piper Alpha,

which was the worst accident on an offshore platform

in the world, ever.

The ensuing fire was so severe, half the platform collapsed.

167 people died.

Within minutes, the first London newspapers were on the phone

calling me asking if I knew anything.

And I started to think about how I could serve Armand Hammer

in these circumstances.

I said to Hammer, be the spokesman for the corporation.

Don't duck away. The worst thing you can do is hide.

There were hundreds of journalists, and Hammer took the stage

and just gave the performance of his life.

But how do you feel personally about it?

I feel very sad.

He was sad, he was brave, he fronted up,

he said the buck stops with me.

Which was a complete falsehood.

The press completely swallowed it.

There was not one skeptical question.

Nobody said to him, this platform has a deplorable safety record.

There’s already been one man killed in recent years,

there was a mass evacuation.

He got off the way he intended and in the way that I had devised.

We went to the airport.

Prince Charles and Princess Diana came to the airport to meet him.

They came striding towards him with their faces

a kind of picture of sorrow and grief.

Prince Charles had his hand out to shake Hammer's hand.

He said, "You mustn't blame yourself."

We got on the plane, and Hammer called to the guys

and he said, "Let's have champagne and caviar. We've had a great day."

So to enlist Prince Charles, as his supporter paid off.

There were no direct consequences whatsoever

in terms of punishments for Armand Hammer

or the board of Occidental.

Nothing at all.

Hammer took no interest whatsoever in the survivors

or their families, the families of the dead.

I go back every 10 years for the 10th anniversary

memorial services and ceremonies around Piper Alpha.

And you see there...

children who didn't know their fathers,

grandchildren who didn't know their grandparents.

There was no moral defense for what I’d done.

After Piper Alpha, I decided to get out of my degrading position

with Hammer as fast as I could.

I think he was the most satanic man

of the second half of the 20th century.

In terms of corrupting the political process,

in terms of controlling people and making them dance his tune,

there is no comparison.

Armand Hammer was the embodiment of sin,

because he was the embodiment of ruthless ego.

After my grandfather died, I gave up my career, quit my job,

I came back to Los Angeles and moved in with my father.

My father was out of control.

He slowly started deteriorating.

He would come downstairs and he was foaming at the mouth,

which later I found out was meth and coke and all kinds of drugs.

He would be carrying a loaded .357 magnum,

he would wake me up with a gun barrel on my temple,

and make me open my eyes,

and say, "I need to look in your eyes to see if you're possessed,

because if you're possessed, I'm pulling the trigger.

He would have sane moments, and then totally volatile moments

where he was going crazy and he wasn’t getting help.

And this went on for months.

I just knew that I needed to get out of there.

And so then I moved out.

It was just a way to protect myself.

- Hi, Casey! - Come on in.

Watch your step.

I tried to move forward and make a name for myself.

Welcome to my home.

A friend of mine was a producer for a local news station

and she was doing a piece called Victim No More.

I wanted to be an actress.

You can scream Case. Whatever you... Action.

Someone came up from behind me.

Get out! Get out of the car!

Something visceral was happening in my body

and I was so afraid that he was gonna kill me or hurt me.

Something took over inside of me and I hurt him.

Ah, goddamit.

I realized I needed help.

I went to a psychologist in Beverly Hills,

and I remember walking into his office

and I said, "Hi, my name is Casey Hammer.

My grandfather was Armand Hammer, and I'm really fucked up."

And we started...

and then the memories started happening when I was in therapy.

The floodgates opened.

I remembered one particular incident, where there was a lot of noise

and party going on, my brother was there as well,

my father started shooting at the walls.

And then my father was like "Wait, I've got an idea,"

and said to me, "Casey, hold this phone book."

And I did it thinking, "They’re not going to shoot at me."

So the phonebook was held up right to my head.

I dropped the phonebook.

I remember taking cover.

I started remembering all the abuse, being choked

and suffocated.

And I thought, "This can't be... something's weird."

I remember talking to my mom and started saying to her

what I was remembering and hoping she would tell me,

"Oh, you're just crazy."

But it turns out she did know about it.

And what I was remembering was actually happening.

Things happened to me

that shouldn’t ever have happened to a child.

Casey, was your father sexually abusing you?

Yes.

And...

that's all I've ever said because...

maybe he's the only person I want to see when,

I don’t even think he is in heaven

or on the other side or whatever you believe, but...

and that’s how I know that it is so deep and so...

I don't know if I'll ever be normal, because...

the fact that I still think he'll save me or be there for me.

I found out what my father was doing and I never confronted him

because I didn't want to hear him say the words.

There's that hope that the person's going to change

and that they didn't mean to hurt you.

My father ended up dying in ’96, five years after my grandfather died.

But...

it's still so hard because you want to share your backstory.

You want to explain why you're fucked up, and broken.

The generation I grew up in, it was closed door.

But you know, it's a different time.

It was my sentiment with Courtney, it's incredibly brave nowadays,

because not only are you traumatized from what he's done,

but you're probably traumatized over and over and over.

But he needs to be held accountable.

And I hope she finds peace and whatever that means for her.

I went to a residential rehab.

It was based on what you were struggling with which,

they placed me in the trauma lodge.

I had a specialty therapist

she was like, "What's the last time you felt

really uncomfortable, really embarrassed, really afraid?"

And I went into the night.

I remembered the music that was playing really vividly.

I remembered the feeling of the ropes on my wrist.

It was just very surreal.

I felt like I was back in that room, back in that moment.

I got diagnosed with trauma and PTSD.

My therapist said I had to repeat, I was used, abused and abandoned.

So you're trying to make sense of what happened.

And that's what she had me repeat over and over,

it's not your fault you feel this way.

It stuck with me. And it really made sense.

That's truly what happened, I was used abused, abandoned,

just discarded, after having my life turned inside out.

Armie Hammer’s ex-girlfriend, Courtney Vucekovic"

"Armie Hammer’s accounts are going viral"

"...has come forward with claims against her ex, Armie Hammer"

When this all blew up, Paige messaged me on Instagram.

I sent her my number and she called me.

First thing she said was, why didn't you tell me?

And then she told me her story and it's like, holy shit!

It is a copy paste.

The same road trip, the same motel,

we wore the same cowboy hat in our pictures,

we both watched that movie, the Secretary.

I sent her the album that he played

when he was tying me up, traumatizing me.

She goes, he played the same album to her.

She was like, does he call you little thing?

I said, yeah, perfect little thing. She was like, yeah.

He says the same, called us the same nicknames.

She met his mom. She went home with him.

I mean, who just introduces everyone to their mom?

They'd known each other a month. I had met her weeks prior.

We had the same relationship, and I would almost guarantee

there was another one that day, he was going to do it again to.

And he was going to continue the cycle,

this destructive cycle until he couldn't anymore.

To Armie Hammer, and some good news for him involving

one of the allegations against him, an allegation of rape.

It is looking like that is not going to result in charges.

It’s a huge slap in the face to see something like this.

I am in shock, but I’m not surprised.

I can assure you that when TMZ made that report,

the case had not yet been sent to the district attorney,

let alone dropped.

TMZ never even checked with me before they ran that story.

It's a common PR tactic, quite frankly.

It's like, okay, I'm going to own up to having a problem,

so I'm going to try to rectify it.

Seems Armie Hammer has quietly hired a new PR person, hear me out.

This was front page on the Daily Mail this morning on snapchat,

that this new girl, Lisa Perejma, has turned Armie Hammer’s life around.

Article says, Armie is happier and healthier than I’ve seen him.

I think rehab was his steppingstone trying to rebrand his image.

The same week that Death on the Nile is coming out,

an article saying that Armie has done so much work in rehab

came out, right before the movie.

Cancel culture is on peoples' tongues way more than rape culture,

and rape culture is a much bigger issue.

Cancel culture wouldn't exist

if rape culture wasn't such a big issue.

I think at the end of the day, PR will win the situation.

Hollywood is built on money, and obviously,

He comes from a family that was built on money.

So if Armie can find a way to make somebody money,

then why couldn't he possibly work?

I think that we all expect he’s not going to get in trouble.

We all know there’s no justice

when it comes to people with this much power.

I'm sure there are people,

especially in this town, who look at who I am or my family

and that's why he got the part.

Generation to generation,

they have had a history of doing what they want

and getting away with it because of the power and money

that they have and that's pretty intimidating.

Every generation, every period of humanity has always dealt

with the same shit, we'll always deal with that.

We just wear different clothes when we do it.

I'm really grateful Armie and I didn't meet up.

By the time that we got to January and I had seen

he had been doing this for years, that's when I realized

how close to danger I really was.

A lot of the press was just all about all of the roles he had lost.

And that was very frustrating to me.

My intention was to bring back

to the conversation the abuses that this person has inflicted.

I felt like art was the way for me to speak to this issue.

So, I decided to make art pieces from my conversations with Armie.

Going back to the messages was something I had avoided.

But when I did, I did it from a place of power.

The first two pieces that I made painted a good picture

about the intersection between wealth, predation,

and abuse of power.

Here I posted this meme,

about the greatest wealth transfer we've seen in history of humankind.

It says, "Trying to enjoy the weekend without fear of impending doom."

This was in August of 2020,

so this is still during the height of the pandemic.

I said, "Eat the rich for real, nom, nom, nom,"

and then Armie reacted to my story, slid right in, "100%,"

which is ironic, because he comes from

one of the wealthiest families on the planet.

He said, "Dibs on the glute muscles and ribs for smoking."

In light of everything that's come out since,

I don't find that funny and him mirroring my frustrations

is a way for him to say that he's just like me.

It's a way to gain my trust and for me to let my guard down.

I'm quite vocal on my Instagram about my background

of having grown up in foster care.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had read that,

and thought, "Oh, okay, she's vulnerable."

We spoke about my past history of abuse

and he very openly confided

about almost getting into a fistfight with his father in the islands,

and his father drinking and taking Vicodin at the same time.

He painted a pretty chaotic picture.

But it wasn't coming from a place of good intention.

It was coming from a place to manipulate and figure out

what tools that then he could use to keep you under control

or use them against you in the future.

When I came forward about my experiences with him,

there was a lot of online harassment.

If you're just some troll, in a dark room, just spewing hate

towards other people who are doing shit with their lives,

I'm not going to let someone like that get to me.

I went in this not understanding the fandom

that was Call Me By Your Name,

but the Charmies are essentially super fans of Armie Hammer.

The women that have come forward, they target in a very big way.

Shame on them. If any of them would like to show their faces,

I would love to know who you are.

One of the hardest times of my life was that news coming out.

I started getting harassed by his diehard fans.

I mean, they really hit you where it hurts.

They have endless chatrooms about what to do to me.

They would text my personal phone number.

They would send me pictures of my apartment building I lived in.

They would send me death threats.

I moved out of my apartment, I bought a house,

and I put cameras all over.

The "charmies" made my life hell.

They want you to break so bad.

Fear is the weapon that keeps victims

emotionally paralyzed.

It's very hard, because once the victim

enters that dangerous world of the court of public opinion,

there is generally going to be some backlash

that they didn't expect how ugly it could be out there.

- Nice to meet you. Can I hug you? - Yes, absolutely.

- How are you? - I’m good, how are you?

I’m okay.

How are you handling everything?

Um, it comes in waves.

I think I can say now that I'm out of it, looking back,

I'm a lot stronger than I was.

And I've learned a lot from what I experienced.

And I learned a lot about how to avoid people like that.

It's one of those things where it continues

and until someone breaks the cycle

and it's so important for someone like you,

who's very intelligent, successful to let people know

- it can happen to anybody. - It's so common.

The way we grew up, it was secretive in a sense.

And now for me with social media, like I can't even imagine

when I see someone like you up against this dynasty...

that have gotten away with this for so long.

Before the internet, it was difficult

for women who were used and abused to speak out.

They felt silenced and, in fact, they were silenced.

Now with the internet, many women refuse to suffer in silence,

and speak out against those who have used, abused,

and manipulated them.

My hope that speaking out about the abuse endured

at the hands of Armie Hammer is that he will be held accountable.

They want their voices to be heard.

For many of them, they want to warn other women.

They have a feeling they can’t undo the wrong that was done to them,

but maybe they can protect someone else’s daughter.

That’s why they speak out.

While I say that these charmies were being horrible,

I had thousands of people message me, like women,

they were like I had this exact same thing happen.

Everybody was relating. It gives me chills because

I got the saddest, most real, vulnerable messages,

of everyone being like, "It’s toxic, I’m getting out."

I was willing to open up about it

to help people avoid a situation like this.

There was a thousand messages that were like okay,

well, something good came out of this.

You want people to recognize these abusive patterns.

I feel like then it changes.

You feel good because it is for the right reasons.

- Not because you're bitter or sad. - Absolutely.

So much of what Courtney echoes

is what I continue to struggle with.

And mine was a long time ago.

I was sent a letter recently by my brother,

It says, "Dear Casey, although we haven't spoken in many years,

I heard the untrue and hurtful things

you've recently said about our family.

I can no longer remain quiet and allow you to feed your thirst

for notoriety at the expense of our family

and the Armand Hammer Foundation.

If you choose to continue pretending

that the stories you have invented are the truth,

I will have no choice

other than to pursue every legal remedy

to set the records straight.

Despite all the pain your fabrications have caused,

you share the blood running through my veins,

you are still my family,

and I wish you nothing but the best. Very truly yours, Michael.

My brother thinks he can silence me.

The way my brother is intimidating me right now

through that letter and those words,

it's exactly what my grandfather would do.

I've let the Hammers control me so much my whole life,

it’s time to stop.

I refuse to be silenced.

Francesca Villa Iyuno-SDI Group