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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.

Trouble for Golden Globe nominee, Armie Hammer,

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

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.

How did Armie Hammer go from Hollywood golden boy

to an alleged abuser?

The actor Armie Hammer has been confirmed as the suspect

in an alleged sexual assault case

by the Los Angeles Police Department.

I thought we were 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.

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.

More. One more.

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

and it just gets worse and worse and worse.

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.

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.

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

forcing millions of Americans into lockdown,

non-essential business ordered to close.

COVID happened in March, so 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...

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

You know, these movies weren't hitting.

What movie besides Social Network had really made money?

Thankfully, Call Me By Your Name

happened and got him buzzing again.

There was this buzz everywhere you looked

in the run-up to this movie coming out.

It just sounded very daring, very sexy.

The two of them together being sexual on screen

was going to make headlines no matter what.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Julia...

are you okay to bring up your phone

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

I haven't really digested this one.

He says...

"I have a fantasy about having someone prove their love and devotion

and tying them up in a public place at night and making their body free use

and seeing if they will fuck strangers for me."

When I 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?"

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

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.

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.

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."

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?

We are number one for departure.

Please prepare the captains.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

The couple were photographed walking around LA.

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

and they denied claims that he is currently dating anyone.

The thing with Rumer happened and...

he said it...

didn't mean anything.

But 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.

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."

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...

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?

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.

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... 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.

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.

Armie Hammer's ex-girlfriend, Courtney Vucekovich...

Courtney Vucekovich has come forward

with claims against her ex, Armie Hammer...

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.

What is happening with Armie Hammer?

Disturbing and racy messages allegedly sent to women

by the actor Armie Hammer are trending on Twitter.

Shocking DMs allegedly from Armie Hammer's public accounts

are going viral on social media.

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.

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.

Now it's entertainment.

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

waiting to see how dark this is.

While the DMs remain unverified,

the stories have kept coming in.

Once Courtney came forward, other women started coming forward.

One of them was the writer, Jessica.

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

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

Paige Lorenze was another woman involved

with Armie Hammer.

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

He kind of 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.

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.

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...

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.

Armie Hammer in Playboy said

he likes rough sex, he likes to pull hair.

Maybe a bit of choking, but he would never do it to his wife

because he respects her too much.

I found 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.

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.

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.

How can you see somebody...

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

and, oh, it was hard to watch.

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

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

during which he repeatedly slapped my head against a wall

bruising my face.

During those four hours,

I tried to get away, but he wouldn't let me.

The way that she was speaking through her story

through tears, and her conviction about what she had been through,

I just thought, 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.

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.

The actor Armie Hammer has been confirmed as the suspect

in an alleged sexual assault case

by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Right now, Armie's being represented by Andrew Brettler

who's known for his defense of people accused

of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct,

and that seemed a very strategic move.

And in a statement vehemently denied any wrongdoing

on behalf of his client.

I know his attorney well,

we've had many cases...

against that firm, and I have said many years ago

and it's still true today,

that firm represents Hollywood bad boys...

and I represent the women they hurt.

Even in BDSM relationships,

consent is still at the heart of it.

It doesn't mean that anyone can do anything...

to anyone during a sexual relationship.

If she withdraws her consent,

and he continues, that's a crime.

Simple as that.

Kinky is not against the law.

Rape is.

I do think a lot of women and men

can relate to engaging with somebody

who presented themselves

in an almost too good to be true way 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.

"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."

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.

She actually reposted me on Instagram.

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

Part of me was kind of pleased

because the world was finding out,

and the other part of me was...

"oh, my God, I'm dead.

My brother's 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.

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.