With wealth and power often comes a dark side. The Armie Hammer documentary, House of Hammer, has finally dropped on Binge in Australia. The male line of the Hammer dynasty is a cesspit of sex, drugs, women and controlling tendencies. The three-part doco brings to light Armie’s misdeeds and those of his father, Michael, his paternal grandfather Julian and Armand.
On the outside, the Hammer family are charismatic. On the inside, however, they are toxic in all caps. The Armie Hammer documentary highlights so much information that has been suppressed over time but dug up, thanks to internet investigators and investigative journalists who want to expose the truth about the story behind the unhinged behaviour of one of America’s wealthiest families.
The revelations about Armie cost him two movie roles. Also, his agent dropped him. he is now allegedly working in timeshares.
Before we dive in, it should be stressed that the topics of domestic violence, sexual violence, drugs and other mature themes will be discussed, so please, turn away now.
Armie And His Sexual Desires And House Of Effie
Armand Douglas Hammer, the eldest son of Michael Armand Hammer, became a household name after starring as the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, in the David Fincher film, The Social Network. Then, after a series of bombs at the box office, Armie starred alongside Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name.
In 2010, Armie married television personality Elizabeth Chambers. Together, they had two children, a daughter, Harper, in 2014 and a son, Ford, in 2017. Everything seemed perfect. However, Armie was not the man he portrayed to the media. If House of Hammer is accurate, he cheated on his wife with a young woman named Effie between 2016 and 2020. She would later open the House of Effie Instagram account.
Effie released a video statement revealing Armie had raped her over four hours. This prompted the LAPD to launch an investigation. During her video testimony, Effie also revealed that the actor crossed the lines with her sexually as he had an addiction to BDSM, known to most as kinky sex.
Thie sentiment was backed by Seth Abramovitch, a journalist with the Hollywood Reporter, who was intrigued by Hammer’s history. After talking to several people who knew Armie personally, he discovered that BDSM was a dominator. Moreover, the actor was fascinated with Shibari, a form of Japanese rope bondage.
Courtney Vucekovich Speaks Out On Her Experiences With Armie
Courtney Vucekovich, a former girlfriend of Armie, backs Effie’s sentiments about the vile behaviour Hammer has demonstrated. She was in a relationship with the disgraced actor after a chance run-in with him at a bar in the Winter of 2019. While she Googled him and found he was married, she fell into his honey trap of deceit after he lied, saying he and his wife had been separated for a couple of years.
The relationship went from innocent to controlling incredibly quickly, resulting in acts Courtney couldn’t talk about on camera. Finally, she confirmed that Armie had roped her (no pun intended) into BDSM, which was unsettling. Her goal was to make him happy. She was not allowed to date anyone else while she was with him. Essentially, she became his sex slave.
Courtney’s instincts started screaming at her, telling her something was wrong. She attempted to break the relationship off after it appeared in the press that Armie had gone on a date with Rumer Willis, a daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. But, instead, the Hammer stalked her, and she fell back into his clutches.
Julia Morrison: The One Who Narrowly Escaped
Artist Julia Morrison was lucky that she didn’t meet with Armie. In 2017, she received a DM on Instagram from him but didn’t see it until 2020. The messages became sexual during the pandemic lockdown. Around this time, the DMs involving him wanting to tie her up to have people have sex with her in public were sent.
Julia, much like Courtney, knew that Armie was married. However, in the final episode, she says she is glad she never met Armie.
Paige Lorenze: The One That Almost Had Her Ribs Removed
One of the girlfriends after Courtney was Paige Lorenze, who unknowingly had fallen into the same trap Courtney had. When Courtney looked her up on Instagram, she first noticed the bruises, which Armie had told her were a ‘badge of honour.’ She is the first one to say that the BDSM practices were unsafe and a fantasy conducted by Hammer.
According to Paige, during the Armie Hammer documentary, Armie was obsessed with barbequing meat and wanted to find a doctor to remove her ribs so he could eat them.
What The Armie Hammer Documentary Reveals About Social Media At the Time Of The Allegations Dropping
House of Hammer does a great job of looking into what social media thought of the allegations. The Charmies, Armie’s toxic fanbase, started trolling the actors’ victims. When the claims of cannibalism started, social media thought it was a joke.
Though, when Courtney’s DMs started going viral, other women began coming forward with their experiences with Armie. This is more or less where Lauren Skae (@thezenblonde on social media) and Candice Cronkhite (@bbfbravo on social media) come into the equation.
Candice did deep dives into pop culture when she stumbled onto the Armie Hammer allegations after finding screenshots from the House of Effie Instagram account. She did a series of Tiktok videos about the story, and they got back to Casey Hammer, Armie’s aunt.
Lauren started getting dozens of tips from other people about Armie and his family. So she started digging into the Hammer family. She and Candice established a pattern of abuse amongst the male members of the family.
Exploring The Toxicity Of Armand, Julian, And Michael Hammer
As we’ve mentioned, the Armie Hammer documentary isn’t just about the disgraced actor. It also breaks down who Armie’s great-grandfather, grandfather and father were. So strap in, people, because we’re in for a while ride.
Armand Hammer – Patriarch, Businessman, Controller
The toxic behaviour started primarily with Armand, Armie’s great-grandfather. A big-time businessman whose touch turned everything to gold had a dark side. According to his granddaughter, Casey, he had to control every aspect of the family’s lives. He had files on who dated and so on.
Outside of controlling his family, Armand was notorious for having friends who could get him and his family out of controversial situations. He was also tied to the British Royal family and had interacted with Prince (now King) Charles, his first wife, Diana, his brother Prince Andrew and Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah. He was also friends with Gregory Peck (the grandfather of Ethan Peck) and Steve Martin.
Armand also tried to hide his past as a Soviet Union sympathiser. Going hand-in-hand with this was trying to hide that his first wife was Russian. He desperately wanted his only child, Julian, not to be his, so he took a paternity test, praying that he wasn’t his son.
It is also implied that Armand saw Julian as a colossal disappointment, and they were constantly falling out.
Julian Hammer – Wife Beater, Drug User, Alcoholic, And Sexpot
Casey and Michael’s father, Julian Hammer, was a wife-beater who constantly abused his wife. He also sexually abused his daughter. His wife stayed with him for as long as she did because she was scared of being cut off by Armand, which is what happened when he did go for a divorce. Oh, and he was an alcoholic.
Julian’s abuse and drunken behaviour prompted his wife to take Casey (not Michael) to a motel until he calmed down.
Julian destroyed his ex-wife in court, all thanks to his money and power. Her biggest regret? Allowing Michael to stay with Julian. However, the situation gets worse. According to Casey, during the Armie Hammer documentary, her brother followed in their dad’s footsteps.
After his divorce, Julian went wild with drugs and women. Casey said it took her mother a while to allow her to visit her father. After that, it became customary to see smoking, young women, and drugs whenever she was there.
It gets even worse for Julian. He killed someone in what he dubbed an accident. However, Casey was told by her mother, who had been pregnant with Michael then, that she believed the “accident” was intentional.
Michael Hammer – Father Of Armie
Finally, we get to Armie’s dad, Michael. He’s not a nice person. But, unfortunately, he followed his father’s lead. He became a womaniser who slept with many of Casey’s female friends. When his grandfather died, he had cosied up to Armand to the point where he inherited almost everything.
Also, before Armand’s body was icy, Michael and his wife (Armie’s mother) looted Armand’s house. Armand’s will was changed a couple of months before he died, where Casey was only given $250k, and Julian was only given $500k to pay off his house.
