LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Los Angeles police said Thursday
they had opened an investigation into rape allegations made against US actor
Armie Hammer after a former partner filed a complaint.
The 24-year-old woman detailed her accusations Thursday morning during a
virtual press conference with her lawyer, women’s rights attorney Gloria
Allred.
The alleged victim said Hammer — who was nominated for a Golden Globe for
his starring role in 2017’s “Call Me by Your Name” — “violently raped” her
for “over four hours” in 2017.
She added that the 34-year-old actor, whom she had met over Facebook the
year before, also “repeatedly slammed” her head against the wall and beat her
feet with a riding crop to the point where she was unable to walk.
The woman recounted the way she said she was “mentally, emotionally and
sexually” abused by Hammer over the course of their four-year on-off
relationship.
LA police did not specify whether their investigation was looking at her
complaint or allegations made by someone else.
Hammer denied the allegations through his lawyer Andrew Brettler, who said
last month his client had only ever had “completely consensual” sexual
relationships.
Brettler in a statement said that the 24-year-old alleged victim had sent
his client a text message in July 2020 containing explicit sexual requests,
which he claimed casts doubt on her claims.
The lawyer has already denied en masse accusations from other women of
violent and sadistic sexual acts by Hammer.
The actor’s agency cut ties with him last month as the allegations
circulated on social media. Hammer has also recently left several film
projects, according to trade publications, including a movie starring
Jennifer Lopez called “Shotgun Wedding.”