All language subtitles for House.of.Hammer.S01E01.1080p.Love Bomb.x265-RARBG

[man on voice message]
All right.
Buckle your seatbelt.

This is gonna be the bet.

If I won,

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

Uh, 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 completely 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.

[newscaster] Trouble for
Golden Globe nominee,
Armie Hammer,

known for his roles
in The Social Network
and Call Me By Your Name.

[newscaster]
Disturbing and racy messages
allegedly sent to women

by the actor Armie Hammer
are trending on Twitter.

Shocking DM's allegedly sent
from Armie Hammer's
public accounts

are going viral
on social media.

[journalist] How did
Armie Hammer go from
Hollywood golden boy

to an alleged abuser?

[newscaster] 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 all joking
about that Armie Hammer stuff,
but that's real?

I just found out
that that's real.

I have a new development,
his aunt wrote a book
about their family,

and let me tell you,
this stuff didn't start
with Armie.

[Casey Hammer] I know
my grandfather
had a dark side,

but 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.

[man] More. One more.

[Casey] Every generation
in my family has been involved
in dark misdeeds...

...and it just gets worse
and worse and worse.

[exhales deeply]

[exhales]

[exhales]

My name's Courtney Vucekovich,
um, 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 Christmas lights
in Highland Park Village.

They light up.
It's super gorgeous.

I'm just trying to enjoy
a night with my friends
at a bar in Dallas.

Then my friend's like,
"That's Armie Hammer,
from the Facebook movie."

I didn't know who he was.
Like, he was tall,

and he didn't dress like
a frat boy, so I was like,
"Wow, yeah. He's super cute."

We, like, saw each other
in passing, like,

spoke very briefly at the bar,
and then I go home.

[message notification rings]

Then I woke up
the next morning,

and he had added me
on Instagram.

I followed him back,
and 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.

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

forcing millions of Americans
into lockdown,

non-essential business
ordered to close.

[Courtney Vucekovich]
COVID happened in March,
so with 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,
a little blue checkmark.

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

You know, my brain,
I'm like...

[sighs] "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 that he's the father

of these two beautiful kids.

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

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

I've been living in New York.
She lives in LA.

And I believed it

because 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, like,
really powerful. He must
feel, like, 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,

like, really, like, rooted
those bonds for me,

that he was so vulnerable
to share something
like this with me,

because I'd 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."

It's like, 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,
this was, like,
what we're all taught to think

is a fairy tale
when we're little.

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

...he was gorgeous
and tall and...
What does he want with me?

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

I think it would have
an effect on anybody.

Unfortunately, Armie Hammer
can't be here today,
which is probably better

because we'd all
be staring at him

since he's such
a God damn hunk.

[Ryan Bailey] There's, like,
certain people that if they
shine their light on you,

you believe, like,
you're the only person
in the room.

There is an element
of that to Armie.

[crowd cheering and clapping]

[Bailey] 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.

Hey! Star dork.

[Bailey]
And then he got Gossip Girl,
and that was, what?

Like, a couple of episodes?

But we were all
in the same kind of boat.

We were all just scrambling
to try to get auditions.

The Social Network auditions
kinda hit like a tornado.

Everybody was auditioning
for these roles, you know?
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 a descendant
of Armand Hammer?

I just can't get over
what a great name
"Armie Hammer" is.

It's just a really hard
name to be when
you're like, five.

Especially 'cause it's, like,
short for "Armand."

Which is, like,
a big name
for a little kid, so...

-You were named for
your great grandfather...
-Yeah.

...who was the billionaire
owner of, uh,
Occidental Petroleum.

-Yes.
-Which sounds like
the bad corporation

-in a Batman movie,
by the way.
-[crowd laughs]

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

[Seth Abramovitch]
Having lived in Hollywood
for twenty years,

you see the name Hammer
on museums and on parks.

So I knew their family
had a lot of money and power.

My name is Seth Abramovitch,
and I'm a journalist.

I write for
the Hollywood Reporter.

When I interviewed Armie,
he was in awards contention
for Call Me By Your Name,

and was on
that teetering cusp

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

We started at Holmby Park
in Westwood, at his request.

There's a big sign that says,
"The Armand Hammer
Golf Course."

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

[newscaster] Dr. Armand Hammer
has parlayed outstanding
private success

into public power
as a Chairman and CEO
of Occidental Petroleum,

a diversified
$16 billion company.

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

[Abramovitch]
Armie's a very handsome actor
who came out of privilege,

and the history of his family
is very interesting.

He did not have
a typical childhood.

So right away I was intrigued
by 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 out of all
the places in the world,
the Cayman Islands.

I associate the Cayman Islands
with offshore bank accounts
that sort of can't be touched.

So I assumed
it was something financial.

They returned to Los Angeles,
I think he was
in seventh grade,

and Armie started pursuing
this idea that he had

when he was younger,
which was that he wanted
to be an actor.

The Social Network
absolutely launched
his career.

He was starring 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 a 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.

[Bailey] 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.

[crowd cheering]

[Abramovitch]
There was this buzz
everywhere you looked

in the run-up to this movie
coming out.

It just sounded very daring,
very sexy.

[Francesca Bacardi]
The two of them together
being sexual on screen

was going to make headlines
no matter what.

[Abramovitch] He already
was taking a real risk.

Hollywood loves when an actor
takes a risk like that,

and so that buzz
is really what pushed him
onto our cover.

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

He, of course, was doing
massive press for the movie

because he was on
on Oscar campaign.

[paparazzi] Your fans
want to hear from you.

At the time, 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.

[Abramovitch] He had
the picture perfect marriage
he had two children.

Everything he described
was very 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.

[interviewer] Julia...

...are you okay to bring up
your phone

-so we can talk about
some of those examples?
-Yeah.

[Julia Morrison]
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."

[Morrison] When I first 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, you know,
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, you know,

"Hey, 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 a artist and writer,
uh, 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, you know,
very existentialist sorts

of captions
with beautiful girls.

A lot of them
are quite provocative.

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

He said he liked that photo
of me being choked.

He started saying
things like,
"God, you're so perfect.

It's like you were made
for me."

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

Being a young woman
in this industry

where you're modeling,
acting, making art,

people will shower you
with compliments,
and you're like,

"Oh, yeah.
Well, my shit's tight."
You know?

"Like, why wouldn't they
be obsessed with me?"

[laughing] So, like,
I mean, I don't want to sound,
like, totally full of myself,

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

He invited me to a play
really early on.

I mean,
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 happened.

Shortly after that,
things became sexual
in conversation.

It didn't really seem
that unnatural at first for me

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

You know, my friends
were telling me about
Zoom dates

[laughs] and phone sex
with so and so from, you know,
Hinge or Tinder,

and I'm, you know,
speaking with Armie Hammer

like this
in my Instagram DM's.

Once the sexual nature
of the DM's started,

it was all that he ever wanted
to talk about.

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

"I've wanted to tie you up
since I saw those
god damn pictures

and messaged you about it."

"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, um,

at the level of, uh,
where he could, you know,

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

um, like Pavlovian dog style.

Like, kind of getting you
into this, like,
submissive space

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

These are messages
that are being sent literally
within seconds of each other.

You know, very heavy
and very frequent.

"Let me take care
of everything?"

"You don't think or 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
just means

that you're engaged
or that you even received it.

That's totally different
than actually being, like,

in a intimate space
with someone.

All of that very forward talk
was just kind of, like,

back and forth like that
for six months.

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

and so I figured a man
who's married

who is doing that with me,
I'm not naive enough to think
that I'm the only one.

[Vucekovich] For July 4th,
he tells me he was doing
this road trip.

He was going Miami to LA,
and he's gonna cross
through Texas.

And I have had plans
to go into the Hamptons
with some friends.

It was already set,
and he almost got
upset with me,

that I was gonna be gone
when he was driving through.

Somebody had my phone,
they're like,

"Somebody named Armie
has called you
like 22 times."

He sends me a picture
when I'm in the Hamptons
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."
So I open the envelope,

and it just says,
"I'm going to 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 so sweetly
sometimes on the phone,

just, like, compliments
and compliments,

then you get a note that says,
"I'm going to bite
the fuck out of you."

As crazy as that sounds,
I took it metaphorically,
not literally.

I thought he just 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 talking,
I left that part out.

I think that says a lot.

[newscaster]
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 enough,

so, you know, they were
gonna be super supportive
of each other.

"This was an amicable split.
We've grown apart.
We've done everything."

[Bailey] You know,
there's this thing of, like,
if you get married young,

if you have kids young,
eventually you're gonna have
some sort of midlife crisis

or something
that you're gonna explore
all of these darker sides.

Or was that Armie all along?

[airplane pilot]
We are number one
for departure.

Please prepare the captains.

[Vucekovich]
I was coming to LA.
I was coming to see a friend,

and after
just talking constantly,

Armie and I were
both, like, okay,
we have to meet.

And this is a new
experience to me.

I've never been
with somebody like this.

[cell phone chiming]

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 gonna happen.

When I got to LA,

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

I was very nervous,
and so was he.

I mean, he was texting
me, like, "I can't believe
this. 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
and we, like, kissed
on the lips immediately.

And I was, like, I think
we were both, like, whoop?

What? Like...
It just felt natural.

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

It was very surreal.

I had spent, like,
the last month
talking to this person.

Five hours a day,
and then you're spending
time with each other.

We spent every day together
for the next three weeks.

We spent a lotta time
in Twentynine Palms.

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

We painted it.

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

[camera shutter clicking]

Right here, this is where
we would have, like, you know,

like, dinners right here
on this long table.

Candlelit 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 always, like,
his hand's on my leg.

It's like, even the first day
that we met, his hand was
always just, like, on my knee.

Like, always needed
to be touching me,

showing me affection,
making me feel really
comfortable, and really safe.

It was so hot,
so I'd just be, like,

in a bikini all day, like,
on the back of his scooter.

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

and, like, put a projector out
and a screen and then
just, like, watch E.T.

I just 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 so not me
to drop everything

and leave for a man, that's...
I've never been like that.

I think I was starting
to fall for him, for sure.

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

I took a picture right there.

Just a pose to remember
how happy I am for a second.

I truly was so fuckin' 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 the first time
at this tractor supply

that he, like, looked
for those ropes.

He would take me
in the rope section.

They were completely
out of rope and I was just,
like, thankful, you know?

Or I'm just, like,
"Okay, let's go!"

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

so he kind of softened.

One night, he was, like,
"Watch this movie, it's
called The Secretary."

It's one
of his favorite movies.

Maggie Gyllenhaal
is the assistant
to this lawyer

What is wrong
with you? That...

[Vucekovich] 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 just, like, that's
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...

...I think 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,

very belittling,
and I just don't...

I don't like to...
I don't wanna
put it out there.

Then I'm, like,
holy shit! I've gotta
get back to my life,

so I go home.

I broke down in the shower...

crying in the shower.

And I had
this wave
of anxiety,

it's like my body
was responding,

trying to be like, hey,
something's not right.

But I... I put it out
of my mind,

because when we talk, it's
like, "I miss you so much,
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's, like, giving
me quality time,
and constant communication,

and PDA, you just
feel so loved.

When we were together,
it felt good, but when
we were apart,

I had this, just, like,
pit in my stomach.

We didn't have
the conversation
where we're exclusive,

but we have all these talks
where I'm not supposed
to be with anybody,

so it's just him.

He wants complete
control of me,

and I didn't have
the mental capacity
to think about another soul.

Because, you know, usually
he's sending me a thousand
texts and a hundred calls.

I wasn't going on dates,
and that's how he wanted it.

[reporter] 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.

[Vucekovich] The thing
with Rumer happened and...

...he said it...

...didn't mean anything.

But it's like,
I remember seeing

the way his hand
was around her,

'cause he's very aggressive
with his hands.

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

...But, like, the way
he was touching her,
I was just, like...

...Made me feel,
like, 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.

So I go to the teeny-tiny
pool house and I'm like,
I'm gonna end it.

When we were
at that pool house,

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

He... And he said,
"No, you're... You're
gonna have to block me,

you're gonna have
to do all these things."

I leave, we're both crying.

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

and 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.

I thought this...
He's fighting for me.

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

I think when you really
care for somebody,

it's kind a crazy
what your mind is willing
to look past or justify.

But then... There, you know,
there's these things
that keep happening that...

Just... I would have,
like, hand marks, like,
that would stay on my body.

I think Armie took
that picture.

He bites really hard...

...and he tells you to wear
them like a badge of honor.

Almost like he convinced
me that I'm lucky to have it.

It's like... As fucked up
as that sounds,

at that time, I was
interpreting that as love.

Like, looking at it now
makes me sick.

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

And then the tone
of the next trip

just felt different
from the very beginning.

[door closing]

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.

There's this gin,
vermouth, like, it's...
He orders four a 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.

I was... 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.

So then I was, like,
"I'm really not in the mood,
I don't feel good.

I don't feel well."

He was just like... Acted mad,
like, would look away, like,

I... I just was like,
how do I get outta this?

And then that night,
he was drunk,
I was not,

and... I didn't say, "No."

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

[distorted] ♪ No you don't
have to try ♪

[Vucekovich] So he puts
on this creepy playlist,

and...

Just like...

Like...

It's... The ropes were
around your neck,

your wrists, your ankles,
behind your back.

It's like...

♪ Thy will be done ♪

It was... I mean,
I had bruises,
I had... I hated it.

It's like, I understand
that if this is, like,
your fantasy,

or this is 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 like,
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 just stuck there.

And I'm just closing
my eyes until it ended and...

...and we just... He just went
to sleep like it was nothing.

Can we take a break?

[Vucekovich] I almost
didn't wanna 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."

After 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,
like, it felt like, okay...

You know, I'm just clinging
to, like, little things
to make this okay.

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

But at that point,
it was kind of 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 his madness everywhere.

[dog barking]

[computer starting up]

[typing]

[Candice Cronkhite]
I woke up on the second
week of January.

I got my coffee, I sat down.

I started opening up Twitter
and combing through.

My name is Candice Cronkhite
and my IG handle is BBFBravo.

I've always been interested
in anything with pop culture.

I really liked, you know,

deep diving people's
backgrounds and why are
they the way that 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 DM's."

All of these screen grabs
that were pulled on Twitter

were coming from a anonymous
account called houseofeffie.

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

The content that you're
reading and you're like,
okay, this is a little kinky,

to progressively getting
darker and darker.

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

After a couple a text
messages, I would see this
one posted by houseofeffie.

You know that there are some
kinky things, or things
that 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... It's... I...
[stammering] I can't...
It's just really... Sick.

And so I couldn't stop.

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

Armie Hammer has
been in hot water
over leaked texts.

Because of the community
guidelines, I'm not going
to say what that's about,

but you could head
over to my IG highlights
to see for yourself.

Sadly, I saw people
laugh it off

and not believe
houseofeffie

and give it
the attention it deserves.

[text message chimes]

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

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
houseofeffie,

and they were really
sexually violent messages.

So, she messaged me...

"Is this true?"

I know how this man speaks.

I could write a text
for him, I've seen
them 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.

You know, I was like,
"that's 100% true,
that's Armie."

At that point,

I just wanted to validate what
houseofeffie was saying.

The next morning,
my life just blew up.

[reporter 1]
Armie Hammer's ex-girlfriend,
Courtney Vucekovich...

[reporter 2]
Courtney Vucekovich
has come forward

with claims against
her ex, Armie Hammer...

[Bacardi] Once Courtney was
willing to go on the record,

this story blew wide open.

It was about abuse
and power and gaslighting.

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

[reporter 1] What is
happening with Armie Hammer?

[reporter 2] Disturbing
and racy messages allegedly
sent to women

by the actor Armie Hammer
are trending on Twitter.

[reporter 3] Shocking DMs
allegedly from Armie Hammer's
public accounts

are going viral
on social media.

[reporter 4] His sexually
graphic texts and DMs
are dominating.

BDSM and even
cannibalism began trending.

I think this specific
one that she posted

really shocked people.

I mean, he said,
"I'm 100% a cannibal."

He's, like, "fuck, it feels
weird even saying that,"

and I can picture him
saying that so vividly.

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

There's this whole, then,
darker underbelly
that just starts

getting you sicker and sicker.

He's talking about
wanting to eat flesh.

Really, really, really
horrific things and imagery.

Where does this end?
Where does this go?

At this point people were just
running with the cannibalism.

♪ I'm loco Four Loko
mad like Hannibal ♪

♪ but not like Armie Hammer
that dude's a cannibal ♪

[Vucekovich] Nobody cared
about anything except
the word cannibal.

Pretending like it
was all a joke didn't
sit well with me

because it wasn't a joke.

[Bailey]
Now it's entertainment.

Now we're, like,
we're leaned in

waiting to see
how dark this is.

[reporter]
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 had said, "if anyone's
questioning whether these
DMs are real,

I'm here to tell
you that they are."

[Bacardi] Paige Lorenze
was another woman involved

with Armie Hammer.

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

He kind of just took
me in under his wing
and he really

was so all-consuming,

and he made me feel
like it was a safe space,

made me feel like
this was normal,

he made me feel like this
was gonna be fun and sexy,

but I think he used BDSM
as, like, a smokescreen,

ultimately, to hurt women
and inflict pain on women,

which is the scariest part.

Hollywood is a very
business-oriented industry,

and now after Me Too
happened and Time's Up,

nobody is taking
a chance on anybody.

[reporter]
The actor Armie Hammer

has been dropped
from the upcoming film
Shotgun Wedding,

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

Armie said in a statement,

"in light of the vicious
and spurious online
attacks against me,

I cannot in good conscience
now leave my children

for four months
to shoot a film."

As soon 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.

[Cronkhite] It was always
talking about how,

"what is Armie going to do?
He lost this movie deal."

Nobody was talking
about the victims.

I just felt like I couldn't
leave the story alone.

I really 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 a interview,

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

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

-Uh...
-[audience laugh]

...and it was, like,
"hmm, that's weird."

You look through the Twitter,
you look through Instagram,

you look 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.

[Bacardi] 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.

[Cronkhite] I found DMs
that were showing more texts

and more and more
and more content

relating to him being
involved in the BDSM world.

At that point I was
just confused about it

beyond Fifty Shades of Grey.

Soon enough, I found out that

if you set these
pre-determined boundaries

and they're crossed
over and over again,

that is a problem.

The more research
that I've done,

the more I found that
these things that he did

are actually not BDSM,
but he's calling them BDSM.

But it's actually just
unsafe, um, behavior

that would, you know,
normally be criminal.

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

It was getting darker.

This looked like abuse.

[Bacardi] And then Effie
of Instagram account
houseofeffie 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.

[Gloria Allred]
I'm attorney Gloria Allred.

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

I'm a partner in a 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

by removing and crossing
my boundaries

as he became
increasingly more violent.

He abused me mentally,
emotionally and sexually.

[sobbing]

[Vucekovich]
How can you see somebody...

...breaking down like that
and not feel for it...

...and, oh,
it was hard to watch.

[sobbing]

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

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

...during which he repeatedly
slapped my head against a wall

bruising my face.

[over phone]
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, you know,
every woman thinks,

"oh, God, that could
have been me,"

you know, and it's been
really close to being me,

and in other situations,
it has been me.

So, I was really grateful,

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

[Bacardi] She came forward
and told everything...

He also committed other
acts of violence against me

to which I did not consent.

...and it launched a police
investigation within the LAPD.

[reporter] The actor Armie
Hammer has been confirmed
as the suspect

in an alleged
sexual assault case

by the Los Angeles
Police Department.

[Bacardi] 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.

[Lauren Skae]
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 in the beginning

that was really just
a manipulation tactic

that led to really
bad behavior.

My name is Lauren Skae,

I go by the Zen Blonde
on social media.

Okay, so, Armie's
lawyers have spoken,

and they called these
claims outrageous

and said that all of his
encounters were consensual.

So, I saw the Armie Hammer
case unfolding,

and in hearing all
these stories, I wanted
to amplify them

because I wanted to push
them towards justice.

I had so many tips coming in,

and it wasn't just
tips about Armie,

it was tips about
the whole family.

Armie Hammer's not
only a famous actor,

but a famous actor whose
family is an institution.

And then, eventually,
my friend tipped me off

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

Casey Hammer
is Armie Hammer's aunt.

I found Casey's
book on Audible,

so I downloaded it,
and immediately
started listening to it,

and literally, like, could not
believe what I was hearing.

[Casey Hammer]
"That is when I understood

that 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, like,
just observing it from afar,

it seemed like it was
a multi-generational trend.

That very, like,
wealthy, privileged men

got away with different
bad things throughout
these generations.

And then I'm on Google,
and I'm, like,

"I can't be the one
that tied this together,

I can't be the one
that tied this together,

this has to be something
that's known, I'm just
late to the story."

And then realizing
that nobody knows this

and then feeling like...

...I need to put this
out immediately,

this needs to immediately
become part of the narrative.

I'm gonna let everyone
catch up with the Armie stuff,

but I have a new development,
his aunt wrote a book about
their family.

And let me tell you the stuff
didn't start with Armie.

He is the great grandson
of Armand Hammer,
an oil tycoon.

His son, Julian,
who would be Armie's
grandfather, was insane.

He beat the living
daylights out of his wife.

I posted everything
in rapid succession

as I was still
listening to the book.

The first video
started going viral,

and then everyone jumped
to the videos after,

and some people were
literally watching them live.

She ended up finding
photos of her dad, again,
Armie's grandfather,

watching as one
of the housekeepers

performed a sexual
act on another man.

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

It grew overnight.

When it started going
viral, I was, like,

"oh, no, this is a real human,

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

[Casey] I remember 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.

[Skae] She actually
reposted me on Instagram.

She said, "I don't know
who you are, but thank you."

[Casey] 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 gonna
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,

so, 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.

-[gunshot]
-[Casey] 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 in my
family has been involved
in dark misdeeds,

and it just gets worse
and worse and worse.

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

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

the dark twisted secrets
of the Hammer family.