5 Things To Know About Armie Hammer’s Grandfather – Hollywood Life

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Home of Hammer, a three-part documentary that began streaming on discovery+ September 2, examines the allegations of sexual abuse towards actor Armie Hammer, 36. Armie’s aunt Casey Hammer seems within the doc and attracts consideration to Armie’s different relations who even have troubled pasts, together with Armie’s late grandfather Julian Hammer, the son of late oil tycoon Armand Hammer. A few of Julian’s deepest and darkest secrets and techniques are uncovered by his daughter Casey within the documentary. Right here’s all the things you might want to learn about Julian that we realized from Home of Hammer.

Julian murdered somebody.

In Might 1955, on the morning of his twenty sixth birthday, Julian killed a buddy at his Los Angeles house. He supposedly shot and killed the person twice over a $400 playing debt. “The story that he instructed us was self-defense,” his daughter Casey stated within the doc, “however my mother was very fast to inform me, ‘No, your father simply murdered somebody in chilly blood.’ ” Julian was charged with homicide, however his filthy-rich dad Armand hand-delivered $50,000 to a lawyer, and after Julian claimed self-defense, the costs had been dropped.

He was not noted of his father’s will.

Julian had a sophisticated relationship together with his father Armand. When Armand died in 1990, he was price an estimated $180 million, although little or no of that quantity went to his son. In line with Casey’s interviews within the doc, Julian and Casey solely acquired $250,000 of Armand’s will. A lot of the cash, plus Armand’s Rolls-Royce, went to Michael Hammer, who’s Armand’s grandson, Julian’s son, Casey’s brother, and Armie’s father.

Julian acted out after studying he wasn’t receiving nearly all of his father’s will, Casey claimed. “He slowly began deteriorating,” she stated within the doc. Casey additionally claimed that Julian ceaselessly pointed his gun at Casey and threatened to tug the set off except she proved that she was not “possessed.” She stated Julian “wasn’t getting assist” when he wanted it.

He uncovered his father as a felony.

Edward Epstein, an investigative journalist who wrote File: The Secret Historical past of Armand Hammer in 1996, revealed within the documentary that Julian uncovered his father Armand’s enterprise wrongdoings after his dying. “He gave me all his non-public papers, in addition to recordings of his father,” Edward stated about Julian. “I feel that it was as a result of he hated what his father had completed to him in reducing him out of his will. He determined he was going to show his father as a felony.” Certainly one of Armand’s crimes included unlawful monetary assist of Richard Nixon‘s Watergate fund within the early Nineteen Seventies.

His daughter Casey claimed Julian sexually abused her.

Casey tearfully revealed that Julian sexually abused her when she was younger within the doc. It took her a few years for her to recollect what transpired, and she or he needed to ask her mother to verify it occurred. However Casey admitted within the doc that she nonetheless has some good emotions in direction of her father, regardless of the abuse at his palms.

“As a result of possibly he’s the one individual I need to see…I don’t even assume he’s in heaven, or on the opposite aspect. That’s how I do know it’s so deep, and I don’t know if I’ll be regular,” she stated. “The truth that I nonetheless assume he’ll save me or be there for me. I came upon what my father was doing however I by no means confronted him as a result of I by no means needed to listen to him say the phrases. There’s that hope that the individual’s gonna change and so they didn’t meant to harm you.”

Julian died in 1996.

Julian handed away in March 1996, on the age of 67. He died over 5 years after his dad Armand’s passing. It’s unclear how Julian died. Within the doc, Casey did declare that her father had a historical past of psychological sickness and substance abuse, however she didn’t verify if these elements performed an element in his passing. Home of Hammer is streaming now on discovery+.