Does the power and money of the Hammer family overrule the acts of the men in the family? What about the “cancelling” trend within exposed celebrities? A dive into the exposé of Armie Hammer, and why his accusations were swept under the rug and why he gets to hideaway in the Cayman Islands.
By: Sabrina Pardo
You’ve seen the new Dahmer series or heard about them at least. And all the serial killer or cannibal stories that everyone seems to be so fascinated by. My questions is: Are we doing the same when we’re talking about Armie Hammer? We almost shrug off his crimes. Only for a while, did we talk about Armie Hammer and his cannibalism habits and possible other crimes. Why is that? Was this a luxury from the Hammer family? Our world is obsessed with stories of psychopaths, so why aren’t we following him?
We missed all the signs. From being seen in interviews talking about his rope tying skills, to posting pictures of his son sucking on his toes along with the hashtag “#footfetishonfleek”. But it was all okay because he was a beautiful, tall, and rich white man with a beautiful family - a high school sweetheart story, a decade long marriage.
Emily Chambers (ex-wife) responds to the backlash over Armie Hammer’s questionable post of his son.
Hammer was born into one of the richest families in the United States. His family empire, created by his grandfather, Armand Hammer came from oil. Armand’s company, Occidental Petroleum, made him one of the world’s most powerful and richest companies. Armand Hammer kept his personal life and public profile very separated. Behind the scenes, however, he was known to want control above all. In Casey Hammer’s book about her family, she wrote about the disturbing behavioral patterns among the Hammer men. She was cut off and disowned from the family in response.
Just like his grandfather, Armie Hammer has kept the shiny image with the perfect family for the cameras. But he was not as careful to cover up his tracks. The latest broadcast of Hammer’s scandal began shortly after announcing his divorce from his wife, Elizabeth. The relationship had been a decade long, and they seemed to have perfect kids, so it was shocking to the public.
However, the public had their jaws on the floor once a few women came forward with accusations and proof of Armie Hammer’s disturbing texts and stories of encounters with him.
Some of the alleged quoted messages exposed by victims. All these were allegedly sent by Armie Hammer, through his instagram.
The allegations just kept piling up from women that claimed he took them on vacations and suggested disturbing acts of BDSM and screenshots of messages suggesting further than just kinks. The actor flipped his image almost immediately from a handsome and wholesome guy to an abuser and cheater.
And it just kept going downhill from there. His fans came across his second, secret Instagram account, which went by “el destructo”, was found to have nothing short of what the allegations made him out to be - the drugs, drug tests failed, and drinking and driving, or a short clip of him doing drugs. It was like seeing another person.
During this time, enough media coverage was done for fans of Armie Hammer to find out about these allegations. And for the time that the news was fresh, it was covered in many different media. All the noise of the allegations caused Hammer to voluntarily drop his role in upcoming movies. And once the first woman, Effie, who remains anonymous to this day due to the hate and people who still do not believe her claims, more women came forward with similar stories.
These stories became a series of disturbing claims such as sexual assault, cannibalism, and graphic fantasies that Hammer opened up with to these multiple women. This escalated to legal matters, and Hammer voluntarily going to rehab. The vision of him as a handsome, young family guy disappeared, replaced by one of him as a sadistic cannibal.
Around this time, he started going off the grid, a few times after rehab, he was spotted working in a hotel in the Cayman Islands where the rest of his ex-wife’s family resided in. A few articles came out about his sightings in strange, and “normal” jobs, but the buzz around his name and the allegations started to die down.
Until the docuseries of the alleged abuse and the two women who were willing to open up about their experience with Armie Hammer, not much else has been heard about him. Other than speculations of Armie being cut off by his father, being in debt, it seems that his crimes were swept under the rug and these women have yet to go to court, other than Effie.
The docuseries had its own issues as well when Effie, the first woman to come forward about Armie’s abuse, refused to be a part of the docuseries interviews. Still, the producers chose to put her story in the series along with screenshots between her and Hammer without her permission. It was public record since she pursued her rape claims in court.
So why is it that Armie Hammer fell so far off the deep end that now his name is off the media’s radar? Well, for one, he had the luxury of high-end lawyers who managed to keep his investigation from going further without evidence. Then, there was a runaway to the Cayman Islands, which is another luxury that comes with money.
The family was willing to cut off one of their family members for exposing such truth. So, you must wonder what they would do to protect their prestigious son. The high celebrity status and how the public viewed him must have a playing factor in all this as well.