House Of Hammer Armie Hammer S Sordid Family Drama Takes Center Stage

Comment To a casual observer, Armie Hammer’s early 2021 saga might have seemed to involve some creepy text messages, a rope fetish, and something about cannibalism. One could be forgiven. After all, that’s what social media chatter boils down to. But a new documentary digs to find that the accusations against Hammer are much broader and more disturbing – and concludes that they are part of a dark family tradition. “House of Hammer,” a three-part documentary that premiered Friday on Discovery Plus, begins with the story of Armie Hammer and then goes up five generations of his family tree. For decades, he argues, the men of the great wealthy Hammer dynasty were up to no good – living illegally and greedily and harming others. Here are the series’ scariest revelations about each. Armie reportedly has a history of abusing women while playing it as kinky sex or fetish play. Courtney Vucekovich, a Dallas business owner and Armie’s ex-girlfriend, claims on screen that he roped her in with only her vague consent, ignoring the common BDSM rule that requires consistent, confirmed mutual consent. The documentary also shows footage of another woman, “Effie,” who claims in a video that Armie violently raped her for more than four hours on one occasion in 2017. Paige Lorenze, a model and influencer, claims that Armie wanted to found a doctor who could remove her ribs to eat. She also claims Armie branded her with a hot iron and licked the wound while it bled. All three women also describe controlling, surveillance behaviors that sometimes frightened them. Damiana Chi, a professional dominatrix and BDSM instructor, is featured in the documentary, and some footage of Armie’s ex-girlfriends describing his behavior is shown. Someone who gets turned on by “someone else’s fear, when that person is uncomfortable about it, is not a BDSM dude,” Chi says after watching him. “This person is a thug.” The Los Angeles Police Department investigated Effie’s rape allegation for nine months in 2021 before turning it over to the prosecutor. At present, no criminal charges have been brought. Johnny Depp’s cameo at the VMAs is the latest stop on his redemption tour Armie’s great-great-grandfather, Julius, was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the United States and was a founding member of the American Communist Party. He named his son Armand, born in 1898, after the symbol of the Communist Party in Russia (“arm and hammer”). Over the years, the Soviet Union was believed to have used Julius and his family to funnel money to New York to finance communist groups – as well as to steal American trade secrets and technology. Joseph Finder of the Harvard Russian Research Center explains in the documents that the CIA concluded that Armand Hammer joined the fold. Arman was used to gather intelligence for the KGB and was therefore believed to be an agent of the Soviet Union. Thanks to Julius, Armand “was a money launderer and a courier of funds funneled to Soviet espionage in the US,” Finder says. “It was secret, it was illegal, it was dangerous.” “Behind every great fortune hides a great crime. Behind the Hammer fortune there were many big crimes,” says Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote a biography of Armand and whose conclusions and thoughts are reported throughout the series. Armi’s great-grandfather Armaan later became a very wealthy oil tycoon – and, according to the documents, was known to be abusive to his wives and mistresses, involved in corrupt schemes and alarmingly unscrupulous with his business interests. Armand used his third wife’s (Frances Barrett Tolman) money to invest in Occidental Petroleum, an oil company, and make it a huge success. During his divorce from his second wife, Angela Carey Zevely, she claimed that Armand deliberately and maliciously “destroyed her will” and threatened to “blow her brains out” while brandishing a metal pipe. “My husband is a master of psychological warfare,” she wrote. During his marriage to Frances, Armand had a mistress named Martha Kaufman. When Frances discovered the affair and told her husband to get rid of Kaufman, Armand ordered Kaufman to change her name to Hilary Gibson and dye her hair platinum blonde. Armand kept Kaufman, now known as Gibson, as an employee, and according to Epstein, “what he demanded was control over her entire life and identity.” Gibson always had to be available on short notice, Epstein says, carrying two pagers so Armand could reach her. A tracking device was installed in her car and a tap was placed on her phone. Armand also controlled her vacation schedule and allegedly had to acquiesce to his sexual demands even when she didn’t like them. Armand’s fortune also earned him political connections and influence. Neil Lyndon, Armand’s former political and media consultant, claims in the series that Armand made illegal contributions to political campaigns frequently. Armand even pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after the money used to pay the burglars in the Watergate scandal was traced to him. Armand was in charge of Occidental Petroleum when an oil rig exploded in the North Sea in July 1988, killing 167 people. Armand effectively blamed in public, says Lyndon, but showed little concern for the victims or the aftermath in private and celebrated the successful handling of the incident with champagne and caviar. From 1996: The Afterlife of Armand Hammer Armie’s grandfather Julian also abused women and was known to be violent, his ex-fiancée and daughter claim in the documentary. He was often pampered in plush pajamas, earning the nickname “the Hugh Hefner of Pacific Palisades,” and reportedly sometimes helped his father, Armad, hack into phones. Back in the day, the documentary says, he liked to host cocaine orgies at home, sometimes with his young daughter Casey around. He also violently abused his wife, Glenna Sue, while Casey and her brother Michael were at home. Casey claims her mother was taking the kids to a motel until Julian calmed down. “Women were disposable in the Hammer family,” Casey says. Julian was almost entirely left out of Armand’s will. Instead, Armand left most of his fortune to Julian’s son, Michael. Casey, Armie Hammer’s aunt, went on to write the 2015 book Surviving My Birthright about the apparently inherited male toxicity in five generations of her family. Michael, Armie’s father, is considered to be the chief guardian and defender of the Hammer family legacy. As a young man he worked for Occidental Petroleum, and after Armand’s death in 1990, Casey tells documentarians that Michael broke into Armand’s home before his body was even taken to remove expensive items and heirlooms from several cars. At Arman’s funeral, his father-in-law Michael stated that Arman became a Christian on his deathbed, despite the fact that the funeral was facilitated by Jewish rabbis. Michael and his then-wife Dru (Armie’s mother) donated much of the $40 million they inherited from Armand to Christian groups, including Jews for Jesus and Italy for Christ. The documents also claim that Michael has a 7-foot-tall “sex throne” with a hole in the seat and a cage underneath. According to a 2021 Vanity Fair story about the Hammer family, Michael was photographed sitting on it and holding the head of a blonde woman. His lawyer, in response to that and other questions from the magazine, referred to “unsolicited gag gifts.” “Michael Hammer, Armie’s father,” says one TikToker, in a clip included in the documentary, “seems like he may have passed on some of his challenges to his son.”

title: " House Of Hammer Armie Hammer S Sordid Family Drama Takes Center Stage Klmat" ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-26” author: “Adelaide Crawford”

Comment To a casual observer, Armie Hammer’s early 2021 saga might have seemed to involve some creepy text messages, a rope fetish, and something about cannibalism. One could be forgiven. After all, that’s what social media chatter boils down to. But a new documentary digs to find that the accusations against Hammer are much broader and more disturbing – and concludes that they are part of a dark family tradition. “House of Hammer,” a three-part documentary that premiered Friday on Discovery Plus, begins with the story of Armie Hammer and then goes up five generations of his family tree. For decades, he argues, the men of the great wealthy Hammer dynasty were up to no good – living illegally and greedily and harming others. Here are the series’ scariest revelations about each. Armie reportedly has a history of abusing women while playing it as kinky sex or fetish play. Courtney Vucekovich, a Dallas business owner and Armie’s ex-girlfriend, claims on screen that he roped her in with only her vague consent, ignoring the common BDSM rule that requires consistent, confirmed mutual consent. The documentary also shows footage of another woman, “Effie,” who claims in a video that Armie violently raped her for more than four hours on one occasion in 2017. Paige Lorenze, a model and influencer, claims that Armie wanted to found a doctor who could remove her ribs to eat. She also claims Armie branded her with a hot iron and licked the wound while it bled. All three women also describe controlling, surveillance behaviors that sometimes frightened them. Damiana Chi, a professional dominatrix and BDSM instructor, is featured in the documentary, and some footage of Armie’s ex-girlfriends describing his behavior is shown. Someone who gets turned on by “someone else’s fear, when that person is uncomfortable about it, is not a BDSM dude,” Chi says after watching him. “This person is a thug.” The Los Angeles Police Department investigated Effie’s rape allegation for nine months in 2021 before turning it over to the prosecutor. At present, no criminal charges have been brought. Johnny Depp’s cameo at the VMAs is the latest stop on his redemption tour Armie’s great-great-grandfather, Julius, was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the United States and was a founding member of the American Communist Party. He named his son Armand, born in 1898, after the symbol of the Communist Party in Russia (“arm and hammer”). Over the years, the Soviet Union was believed to have used Julius and his family to funnel money to New York to finance communist groups – as well as to steal American trade secrets and technology. Joseph Finder of the Harvard Russian Research Center explains in the documents that the CIA concluded that Armand Hammer joined the fold. Arman was used to gather intelligence for the KGB and was therefore believed to be an agent of the Soviet Union. Thanks to Julius, Armand “was a money launderer and a courier of funds funneled to Soviet espionage in the US,” Finder says. “It was secret, it was illegal, it was dangerous.” “Behind every great fortune hides a great crime. Behind the Hammer fortune there were many big crimes,” says Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote a biography of Armand and whose conclusions and thoughts are reported throughout the series. Armi’s great-grandfather Armaan later became a very wealthy oil tycoon – and, according to the documents, was known to be abusive to his wives and mistresses, involved in corrupt schemes and alarmingly unscrupulous with his business interests. Armand used his third wife’s (Frances Barrett Tolman) money to invest in Occidental Petroleum, an oil company, and make it a huge success. During his divorce from his second wife, Angela Carey Zevely, she claimed that Armand deliberately and maliciously “destroyed her will” and threatened to “blow her brains out” while brandishing a metal pipe. “My husband is a master of psychological warfare,” she wrote. During his marriage to Frances, Armand had a mistress named Martha Kaufman. When Frances discovered the affair and told her husband to get rid of Kaufman, Armand ordered Kaufman to change her name to Hilary Gibson and dye her hair platinum blonde. Armand kept Kaufman, now known as Gibson, as an employee, and according to Epstein, “what he demanded was control over her entire life and identity.” Gibson always had to be available on short notice, Epstein says, carrying two pagers so Armand could reach her. A tracking device was installed in her car and a tap was placed on her phone. Armand also controlled her vacation schedule and allegedly had to acquiesce to his sexual demands even when she didn’t like them. Armand’s fortune also earned him political connections and influence. Neil Lyndon, Armand’s former political and media consultant, claims in the series that Armand made illegal contributions to political campaigns frequently. Armand even pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after the money used to pay the burglars in the Watergate scandal was traced to him. Armand was in charge of Occidental Petroleum when an oil rig exploded in the North Sea in July 1988, killing 167 people. Armand effectively blamed in public, says Lyndon, but showed little concern for the victims or the aftermath in private and celebrated the successful handling of the incident with champagne and caviar. From 1996: The Afterlife of Armand Hammer Armie’s grandfather Julian also abused women and was known to be violent, his ex-fiancée and daughter claim in the documentary. He was often pampered in plush pajamas, earning the nickname “the Hugh Hefner of Pacific Palisades,” and reportedly sometimes helped his father, Armad, hack into phones. Back in the day, the documentary says, he liked to host cocaine orgies at home, sometimes with his young daughter Casey around. He also violently abused his wife, Glenna Sue, while Casey and her brother Michael were at home. Casey claims her mother was taking the kids to a motel until Julian calmed down. “Women were disposable in the Hammer family,” Casey says. Julian was almost entirely left out of Armand’s will. Instead, Armand left most of his fortune to Julian’s son, Michael. Casey, Armie Hammer’s aunt, went on to write the 2015 book Surviving My Birthright about the apparently inherited male toxicity in five generations of her family. Michael, Armie’s father, is considered to be the chief guardian and defender of the Hammer family legacy. As a young man he worked for Occidental Petroleum, and after Armand’s death in 1990, Casey tells documentarians that Michael broke into Armand’s home before his body was even taken to remove expensive items and heirlooms from several cars. At Arman’s funeral, his father-in-law Michael stated that Arman became a Christian on his deathbed, despite the fact that the funeral was facilitated by Jewish rabbis. Michael and his then-wife Dru (Armie’s mother) donated much of the $40 million they inherited from Armand to Christian groups, including Jews for Jesus and Italy for Christ. The documents also claim that Michael has a 7-foot-tall “sex throne” with a hole in the seat and a cage underneath. According to a 2021 Vanity Fair story about the Hammer family, Michael was photographed sitting on it and holding the head of a blonde woman. His lawyer, in response to that and other questions from the magazine, referred to “unsolicited gag gifts.” “Michael Hammer, Armie’s father,” says one TikToker, in a clip included in the documentary, “seems like he may have passed on some of his challenges to his son.”

title: " House Of Hammer Armie Hammer S Sordid Family Drama Takes Center Stage Klmat" ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-02” author: “Michael Carter”

Comment To a casual observer, Armie Hammer’s early 2021 saga might have seemed to involve some creepy text messages, a rope fetish, and something about cannibalism. One could be forgiven. After all, that’s what social media chatter boils down to. But a new documentary digs to find that the accusations against Hammer are much broader and more disturbing – and concludes that they are part of a dark family tradition. “House of Hammer,” a three-part documentary that premiered Friday on Discovery Plus, begins with the story of Armie Hammer and then goes up five generations of his family tree. For decades, he argues, the men of the great wealthy Hammer dynasty were up to no good – living illegally and greedily and harming others. Here are the series’ scariest revelations about each. Armie reportedly has a history of abusing women while playing it as kinky sex or fetish play. Courtney Vucekovich, a Dallas business owner and Armie’s ex-girlfriend, claims on screen that he roped her in with only her vague consent, ignoring the common BDSM rule that requires consistent, confirmed mutual consent. The documentary also shows footage of another woman, “Effie,” who claims in a video that Armie violently raped her for more than four hours on one occasion in 2017. Paige Lorenze, a model and influencer, claims that Armie wanted to found a doctor who could remove her ribs to eat. She also claims Armie branded her with a hot iron and licked the wound while it bled. All three women also describe controlling, surveillance behaviors that sometimes frightened them. Damiana Chi, a professional dominatrix and BDSM instructor, is featured in the documentary, and some footage of Armie’s ex-girlfriends describing his behavior is shown. Someone who gets turned on by “someone else’s fear, when that person is uncomfortable about it, is not a BDSM dude,” Chi says after watching him. “This person is a thug.” The Los Angeles Police Department investigated Effie’s rape allegation for nine months in 2021 before turning it over to the prosecutor. At present, no criminal charges have been brought. Johnny Depp’s cameo at the VMAs is the latest stop on his redemption tour Armie’s great-great-grandfather, Julius, was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the United States and was a founding member of the American Communist Party. He named his son Armand, born in 1898, after the symbol of the Communist Party in Russia (“arm and hammer”). Over the years, the Soviet Union was believed to have used Julius and his family to funnel money to New York to finance communist groups – as well as to steal American trade secrets and technology. Joseph Finder of the Harvard Russian Research Center explains in the documents that the CIA concluded that Armand Hammer joined the fold. Arman was used to gather intelligence for the KGB and was therefore believed to be an agent of the Soviet Union. Thanks to Julius, Armand “was a money launderer and a courier of funds funneled to Soviet espionage in the US,” Finder says. “It was secret, it was illegal, it was dangerous.” “Behind every great fortune hides a great crime. Behind the Hammer fortune there were many big crimes,” says Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote a biography of Armand and whose conclusions and thoughts are reported throughout the series. Armi’s great-grandfather Armaan later became a very wealthy oil tycoon – and, according to the documents, was known to be abusive to his wives and mistresses, involved in corrupt schemes and alarmingly unscrupulous with his business interests. Armand used his third wife’s (Frances Barrett Tolman) money to invest in Occidental Petroleum, an oil company, and make it a huge success. During his divorce from his second wife, Angela Carey Zevely, she claimed that Armand deliberately and maliciously “destroyed her will” and threatened to “blow her brains out” while brandishing a metal pipe. “My husband is a master of psychological warfare,” she wrote. During his marriage to Frances, Armand had a mistress named Martha Kaufman. When Frances discovered the affair and told her husband to get rid of Kaufman, Armand ordered Kaufman to change her name to Hilary Gibson and dye her hair platinum blonde. Armand kept Kaufman, now known as Gibson, as an employee, and according to Epstein, “what he demanded was control over her entire life and identity.” Gibson always had to be available on short notice, Epstein says, carrying two pagers so Armand could reach her. A tracking device was installed in her car and a tap was placed on her phone. Armand also controlled her vacation schedule and allegedly had to acquiesce to his sexual demands even when she didn’t like them. Armand’s fortune also earned him political connections and influence. Neil Lyndon, Armand’s former political and media consultant, claims in the series that Armand made illegal contributions to political campaigns frequently. Armand even pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after the money used to pay the burglars in the Watergate scandal was traced to him. Armand was in charge of Occidental Petroleum when an oil rig exploded in the North Sea in July 1988, killing 167 people. Armand effectively blamed in public, says Lyndon, but showed little concern for the victims or the aftermath in private and celebrated the successful handling of the incident with champagne and caviar. From 1996: The Afterlife of Armand Hammer Armie’s grandfather Julian also abused women and was known to be violent, his ex-fiancée and daughter claim in the documentary. He was often pampered in plush pajamas, earning the nickname “the Hugh Hefner of Pacific Palisades,” and reportedly sometimes helped his father, Armad, hack into phones. Back in the day, the documentary says, he liked to host cocaine orgies at home, sometimes with his young daughter Casey around. He also violently abused his wife, Glenna Sue, while Casey and her brother Michael were at home. Casey claims her mother was taking the kids to a motel until Julian calmed down. “Women were disposable in the Hammer family,” Casey says. Julian was almost entirely left out of Armand’s will. Instead, Armand left most of his fortune to Julian’s son, Michael. Casey, Armie Hammer’s aunt, went on to write the 2015 book Surviving My Birthright about the apparently inherited male toxicity in five generations of her family. Michael, Armie’s father, is considered to be the chief guardian and defender of the Hammer family legacy. As a young man he worked for Occidental Petroleum, and after Armand’s death in 1990, Casey tells documentarians that Michael broke into Armand’s home before his body was even taken to remove expensive items and heirlooms from several cars. At Arman’s funeral, his father-in-law Michael stated that Arman became a Christian on his deathbed, despite the fact that the funeral was facilitated by Jewish rabbis. Michael and his then-wife Dru (Armie’s mother) donated much of the $40 million they inherited from Armand to Christian groups, including Jews for Jesus and Italy for Christ. The documents also claim that Michael has a 7-foot-tall “sex throne” with a hole in the seat and a cage underneath. According to a 2021 Vanity Fair story about the Hammer family, Michael was photographed sitting on it and holding the head of a blonde woman. His lawyer, in response to that and other questions from the magazine, referred to “unsolicited gag gifts.” “Michael Hammer, Armie’s father,” says one TikToker, in a clip included in the documentary, “seems like he may have passed on some of his challenges to his son.”

title: " House Of Hammer Armie Hammer S Sordid Family Drama Takes Center Stage Klmat" ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-27” author: “Rosa Sharpe”

Comment To a casual observer, Armie Hammer’s early 2021 saga might have seemed to involve some creepy text messages, a rope fetish, and something about cannibalism. One could be forgiven. After all, that’s what social media chatter boils down to. But a new documentary digs to find that the accusations against Hammer are much broader and more disturbing – and concludes that they are part of a dark family tradition. “House of Hammer,” a three-part documentary that premiered Friday on Discovery Plus, begins with the story of Armie Hammer and then goes up five generations of his family tree. For decades, he argues, the men of the great wealthy Hammer dynasty were up to no good – living illegally and greedily and harming others. Here are the series’ scariest revelations about each. Armie reportedly has a history of abusing women while playing it as kinky sex or fetish play. Courtney Vucekovich, a Dallas business owner and Armie’s ex-girlfriend, claims on screen that he roped her in with only her vague consent, ignoring the common BDSM rule that requires consistent, confirmed mutual consent. The documentary also shows footage of another woman, “Effie,” who claims in a video that Armie violently raped her for more than four hours on one occasion in 2017. Paige Lorenze, a model and influencer, claims that Armie wanted to found a doctor who could remove her ribs to eat. She also claims Armie branded her with a hot iron and licked the wound while it bled. All three women also describe controlling, surveillance behaviors that sometimes frightened them. Damiana Chi, a professional dominatrix and BDSM instructor, is featured in the documentary, and some footage of Armie’s ex-girlfriends describing his behavior is shown. Someone who gets turned on by “someone else’s fear, when that person is uncomfortable about it, is not a BDSM dude,” Chi says after watching him. “This person is a thug.” The Los Angeles Police Department investigated Effie’s rape allegation for nine months in 2021 before turning it over to the prosecutor. At present, no criminal charges have been brought. Johnny Depp’s cameo at the VMAs is the latest stop on his redemption tour Armie’s great-great-grandfather, Julius, was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the United States and was a founding member of the American Communist Party. He named his son Armand, born in 1898, after the symbol of the Communist Party in Russia (“arm and hammer”). Over the years, the Soviet Union was believed to have used Julius and his family to funnel money to New York to finance communist groups – as well as to steal American trade secrets and technology. Joseph Finder of the Harvard Russian Research Center explains in the documents that the CIA concluded that Armand Hammer joined the fold. Arman was used to gather intelligence for the KGB and was therefore believed to be an agent of the Soviet Union. Thanks to Julius, Armand “was a money launderer and a courier of funds funneled to Soviet espionage in the US,” Finder says. “It was secret, it was illegal, it was dangerous.” “Behind every great fortune hides a great crime. Behind the Hammer fortune there were many big crimes,” says Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote a biography of Armand and whose conclusions and thoughts are reported throughout the series. Armi’s great-grandfather Armaan later became a very wealthy oil tycoon – and, according to the documents, was known to be abusive to his wives and mistresses, involved in corrupt schemes and alarmingly unscrupulous with his business interests. Armand used his third wife’s (Frances Barrett Tolman) money to invest in Occidental Petroleum, an oil company, and make it a huge success. During his divorce from his second wife, Angela Carey Zevely, she claimed that Armand deliberately and maliciously “destroyed her will” and threatened to “blow her brains out” while brandishing a metal pipe. “My husband is a master of psychological warfare,” she wrote. During his marriage to Frances, Armand had a mistress named Martha Kaufman. When Frances discovered the affair and told her husband to get rid of Kaufman, Armand ordered Kaufman to change her name to Hilary Gibson and dye her hair platinum blonde. Armand kept Kaufman, now known as Gibson, as an employee, and according to Epstein, “what he demanded was control over her entire life and identity.” Gibson always had to be available on short notice, Epstein says, carrying two pagers so Armand could reach her. A tracking device was installed in her car and a tap was placed on her phone. Armand also controlled her vacation schedule and allegedly had to acquiesce to his sexual demands even when she didn’t like them. Armand’s fortune also earned him political connections and influence. Neil Lyndon, Armand’s former political and media consultant, claims in the series that Armand made illegal contributions to political campaigns frequently. Armand even pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after the money used to pay the burglars in the Watergate scandal was traced to him. Armand was in charge of Occidental Petroleum when an oil rig exploded in the North Sea in July 1988, killing 167 people. Armand effectively blamed in public, says Lyndon, but showed little concern for the victims or the aftermath in private and celebrated the successful handling of the incident with champagne and caviar. From 1996: The Afterlife of Armand Hammer Armie’s grandfather Julian also abused women and was known to be violent, his ex-fiancée and daughter claim in the documentary. He was often pampered in plush pajamas, earning the nickname “the Hugh Hefner of Pacific Palisades,” and reportedly sometimes helped his father, Armad, hack into phones. Back in the day, the documentary says, he liked to host cocaine orgies at home, sometimes with his young daughter Casey around. He also violently abused his wife, Glenna Sue, while Casey and her brother Michael were at home. Casey claims her mother was taking the kids to a motel until Julian calmed down. “Women were disposable in the Hammer family,” Casey says. Julian was almost entirely left out of Armand’s will. Instead, Armand left most of his fortune to Julian’s son, Michael. Casey, Armie Hammer’s aunt, went on to write the 2015 book Surviving My Birthright about the apparently inherited male toxicity in five generations of her family. Michael, Armie’s father, is considered to be the chief guardian and defender of the Hammer family legacy. As a young man he worked for Occidental Petroleum, and after Armand’s death in 1990, Casey tells documentarians that Michael broke into Armand’s home before his body was even taken to remove expensive items and heirlooms from several cars. At Arman’s funeral, his father-in-law Michael stated that Arman became a Christian on his deathbed, despite the fact that the funeral was facilitated by Jewish rabbis. Michael and his then-wife Dru (Armie’s mother) donated much of the $40 million they inherited from Armand to Christian groups, including Jews for Jesus and Italy for Christ. The documents also claim that Michael has a 7-foot-tall “sex throne” with a hole in the seat and a cage underneath. According to a 2021 Vanity Fair story about the Hammer family, Michael was photographed sitting on it and holding the head of a blonde woman. His lawyer, in response to that and other questions from the magazine, referred to “unsolicited gag gifts.” “Michael Hammer, Armie’s father,” says one TikToker, in a clip included in the documentary, “seems like he may have passed on some of his challenges to his son.”