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lockdown last summer, and Hammer had been quarantg at a luxury villa the Cayman Islands wh his father, Michael, his stepmother, Misty, his two young children, and his wife of a , Elizabeth. </p><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ hSLYci"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="100" width="350" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig allow-popups allow-popups-to-pe-sandbox" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-wre; toplay; fullscreen; picture--picture"></iame></div></div></figure><p class="paywall">“It was a very plited, tense suatn, wh big personali all locked a ltle ty place,” Hammer told Brish <em>GQ</em> last September. “I don’t thk I handled very well. I thk, to be que ank, I me very close to pletely losg my md.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="gy1mf"></div></div><p class="paywall">He pared himself to a trapped wolf who wants to “chew his own foot off.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Hammer had been so sperate to <a href=" target="_blank">pe the Caymans</a> that he booked a flight back to the U.S. A source close to Elizabeth claims that his cisn to flee his fay durg a panmic was the fal straw a marriage that had already been tted by fily; she <a href=" target="_blank">filed for divorce</a> July. By January 1, Hammer seemed to have rebound romantilly wh a seri of short-term girliends and was ready to face the world anew: “2021 is gog to kneel down before me and kiss my feet bee this year I’m the boss,” Hammer tweeted. “2020 was a cheap shot no one was expectg. Now I know what we are up agast and ’s time to go to war.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">Several weeks later, however, Hammer found himself a darker crisis. Amid the turmoil of divorce proceedgs, several women took to social media to acce the actor of emotnal abe, manipulatn, and vlence. The sndal ballooned as screengrabs circulated that seemed to show the actor scribg sexual fantasi volvg rape and nnibalism. Hammer stepped away om two high-profile projects, a rom- wh Jennifer Lopez and a Paramount seri about the makg of <em>The Godfather.</em> Shortly after, his agency, <a href=" target="_blank">WME, dropped him.</a></p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Transportatn Vehicle Aircraft Airplane Watercraft and Vsel" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Armand Hammer on the Oxy jet Paris, 1977.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">by BERTRAND LAFORET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Imag.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="diuqn"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">For the people who know Hammer’s fay—peppered wh Rsian munists and Amerin oil tyons—the allegatns are an unsurprisg velopment to a long and sordid history wh dgs, sex, dysfunctn, and betrayal. Many men the Hammer fay have a <a href=" target="_blank">dark si,</a> sourc close to the fay say, one that looms across five nsecutive generatns.</p><h2 class="paywall"><strong>SINS OF THE FATHERS</strong></h2><p class="paywall">The fay’s first bsh wh sndal was 1919, when Armie’s great-great-grandfather, Dr. Juli Hammer, gave the wife of a Rsian diplomat an abortn. Juli was a Rsian immigrant livg the Bronx and a central member of the Communist Party of the Uned Stat, acrdg to bgrapher Edward Jay Epste, who published <em>Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer,</em> 1996. The woman, Marie Oganoff, died days later. Juli was nvicted of first-gree manslghter and sentenced to 3 and a half to 12 years Sg Sg.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Wh Juli prison, his 22-year-old son, Armand Hammer (Armie’s namake), abandoned a medil reer to take over his father’s other bs, Allied Dg. Acrdg to Epste, Vladimir Len sent a msage to Joseph Stal enuragg “particular support” for Armand, tellg him, “This is a small path to the Amerin ‘bs’ world and this path should be ma e of every way.” Armand moved to the Soviet Unn 1921 for about a to fortify fay nnectns. While there, he married a Rsian sger named Olga and together they had a son named Julian—Armie’s grandfather.</p><p class="paywall">By the 1950s, Armand had divorced Olga as well as a send wife, Angela, who had told the urt that, due to his time Rsia and his medil trag, “[] him no pa to see the suffergs of others.” He moved to Los Angel, married a wealthy woman named Franc Barrett Tolman 1956, vted her money the then failg Occintal Petrolm, and drove the pany to credible succs.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj UnBFT"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eXdqOX"><p class="paywall">“I started watchg <em>Succsn</em> and I had to turn off,” says Armie’s nt Casey Hammer, “bee was like, ‘Oh, my God. That’s my fay.’”</p></div></asi><p class="paywall">Armand tried to distance himself om his Soviet nnectns, reimagg himself as a self-ma dtrialist—he even hired a journalist to ghostwre a memoir, <em>The Remarkable Life of Dr. Armand Hammer.</em> He had a private Boeg 727; palled around wh Prce Charl and high-powered policians (he was a close iend of Senator Al Gore Sr. and attend the guratns of FDR, Reagan, and Gee H. W. Bh, among other prints); llected expensive artwork; and nvced Che lears to lend two pandas to Los Angel for the cy’s 1984 Olympics. He died 1990.</p><p class="paywall">But 1996, Epste’s bombshell bgraphy exposed the late Occintal Petrolm chairman for wi-rangg grifts, cludg lnrg money; g artwork to fund Soviet pnage; bribg his way to the oil bs; and knockg off Fabergé eggs. Per Epste, Armand bugged his office and home, pl his cuff lks, to rerd s’ worth of nversatns, had a fixer, and was known to do bs wh a briefse full of sh. He also ma an illegal ntributn to the Nixon reelectn mpaign which, “ all likelihood,” acrdg to <em>The New York Tim,</em> “went to help pay for the Watergate ver-up.” Though he faced a felony charge for obstctg jtice, a Washgton lawyer helped him plead guilty to mismeanor charg, and H. W. Bh later pardoned him.</p><p class="paywall">Armand had multiple mistrs, cludg Martha Kfman—a mother of two who divorced her hband after meetg Armand, and whom he put on Occintal’s payroll as an art nsultant. When Armand’s wife, Franc, grew spic, Armand had Martha legally change her name to Hilary Gibson—sistg, acrdg to Epste, that his mistrs wear wigs, glass, and makp to change her appearance. The affair lasted over a , wh Armand promisg to take re of her and her children after he died, she later told Epste. Per the bgrapher, she drove a r wh a homg vice, ed a tapped phone, and submted to his sexual mands even when they were “extremely huiatg.” When Armand died, she learned that he had left her out of his will.</p><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp fqCNOx llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Leonid Brezhnev Human Person Advertisement Collage Poster PierreRen Lemas Stg Su and Coat" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Armand Hammer wh wife Franc the Red Square and as Chairman of the Amerin Occintal Petrolm Corp wh Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Commtee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unn.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Top, by John Bryson/The LIFE Imag Collectn via Getty Imag; bottom, by TASS via Getty Imag.</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Human Person Charl Prce of Wal Advertisement Collage Poster and Car" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Wh Prce Charl at a Polo match at Guards Polo Club, Smh's Lawn, Wdsor Great Park. Armand Hammer outsi an art gallery Stockholm which was exhibg part of the Hammer Collectn. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Top, by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Imag; bottom, by Keystone Featur/Getty Imag.</span></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">“Everythg he did was public,” said Casey Hammer, Armand’s granddghter and Armie’s nt, who is tranged om most of her fay and works as a kchen signer at a San Diego Home Depot. “God forbid you did anythg wrong ont of his iends. You uldn’t wear the same drs twice to his gala parti. On the outsi, we had to be the perfect fay.” But behd the scen, Armand required his son, Julian, dghter--law Sue, and three grandchildren to make appotments to see him, Casey claimed. “I started watchg <em>Succsn</em> and I had to turn off,” said Casey, “bee was like, ‘Oh, my God. That’s my fay.’”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="zoz4gf"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Julian was extremely bright, but Armand didn’t seem to re much for his only child, and passed him over entirely when he left Julian’s son, Michael—Armie’s father—his bs empire. Casey believ her father, Julian, ed too much trouble, and was an afont to Armand’s obssn wh appearanc. As she said, he “uld never get my grandfather’s attentn unls he rorted to really, really bad behavr.”</p><p class="paywall">In the morng hours after Julian’s 26th birthday, 1955, he killed a man si his Los Angel home over a gamblg bt and supposed advanc on his wife, Glenna Sue. The ont-page headl read “Millnaire’s Son Kills GI.” Armand had a iend liver $50,000 sh to a lawyer Los Angel. Julian claimed self-fense, and charg were dismissed.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">In her self-published 2015 book, <em>Survivg My Birthright,</em> Casey alleg that Julian sexually abed her when she was a child, and that Julian was abive to others the fay, allegatns she also ma to Epste. In an email, Jan Ward, Casey and Michael’s half sister, cled to ment on the allegatns, stead offerg this statement: “I will say that I love my fay very much which clus my brother, my sister, and my nephews…I do have wonrful memori of kids spendg every summer at Laguna Beach wh our Grandma Olga and spendg the holidays wh our parents and grandparents. We were all blsed to be able to attend excellent schools thanks to Grandpa Hammer who was a great supporter of tn. Our fay tght the value of hard work and I have had a fulfillg reer and a wonrful fay life.”</p><p class="paywall">Like his father, Michael stggled wh excs. In 1985, Michael, then workg at Occintal, met D Mobley on a plane. The lore, as Armie told New York magaze’s Vulture: “My dad was supposed to be on a flight, went to the airport, and got hammered and passed out…He missed his flight, woke up, and was like, ‘Oh God, I have a meetg.’” He rebooked, swched seats due to clstrophobia, and wound up next to D. They married that year and had Armie the next. The vout Christian D seemed to have a temperg effect on Michael’s own vice stggl, which he has said clud drkg and dgs. “When I accepted Christ,” Michael has said, “the [bad experienc] didn’t jt stop, but they started dwdlg.”</p><h2 class="paywall"><strong>DADDY ISSUES</strong></h2><p class="paywall">If Armand wanted to keep the empire he built the fay, he didn’t have many optns. His son, Julian, was addled and unreliable, and his grandson, Michael, by multiple acunts, was not as bright, and more terted a playboy liftyle than world domatn. When Armie was four, his great-grandfather Armand, timated by <em>Forb</em> to be worth around $180 ln, died. The battle for the tate began almost immediately, and still simmers 30 years later. Wh hours of Armand’s ath, police officers who were summoned to the hoe observed Michael attemptg to remove belonggs and load them to five wag rs. (The hoe, which had been owned by the late Franc, was to be turned over to Franc’s niece upon Armand’s ath.) Casey and Hilary claimed that Armand had ma promis to his fay that his tate would take re of them. But at the will readg a Los Angel law office, his heirs learned he’d only left behd a piddly $40 ln; Casey and her father would each receive jt $250,000. In addn to cuttg Julian out, Armand name-checked Jan—Sue’s dghter om another relatnship, and thereby his step-granddghter—as havg no claim to his tate.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="72k4kq"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">“All of a sudn, I’m a bad Stephen Kg novel,” Casey said. “My father is worried about why Michael got the Rolls-Royce. And I’m like, ‘Dad, you don’t unrstand. You’re gog to be out on the street, no one’s payg for your hoe, no one’s payg for anythg.’” The next day, Casey said that she sat wh Julian “so he don’t blow his bras out bee now he’s threateng to kill me, he’s threateng to kill Michael, he’s threateng to kill everybody.”</p><p class="paywall">In total, 100 claims and lawsus were filed agast Armand’s tate—by Casey, by former mistrs, by chari that alleged that the late tyon owed them, acrdg to <em>The Washgton Post</em>. (Casey says that she settled for about $1.4 ln. Per Epste, Hilary Gibson settled for $4.2 ln.) The herance battle tore the fay apart. Michael’s own mother, Sue Kane, told <em>The Washgton Post</em> that her son “fot about ,” stead favorg D’s fay. Rumors still lger that Armand had stockpiled large sums sh lockbox and secret overseas bank acunts, and those were flamed when Stt Derick—Michael’s llege iend whom Michael appoted as vice print of the Armand Hammer Foundatn—was arrted after a flight back om London wh $60,000 unclared sh. “Acrdg to Tw Ci news stori at the time, Derick’s passport rerd nearly 12 trips abroad lastg ls than 36 hours,” reported <em>The Washgton Post</em>. (Michael posted the $250,000 bail and Derick was later acquted of sh-smugglg charg.)</p><p class="paywall">Armand had yearned for a legacy, spendg over $100 ln to build the Hammer Mm. But 1994, acrdg to <em>The Washgton Post</em>, Michael turned the Hammer Mm over to the UCLA art partment. He also asked the Metropolan Mm of Art to remove Armand’s name om the Hall of Arms and Armor rather than pay the remag $1 ln on his grandfather’s pledge. Even though Armand had spent his fal years remtg himself to the Jewish fah—he didn’t live to celebrate a belated bar mzvah for himself his 92nd year—Michael began redirectg the Hammer Foundatn’s funds to Christian groups like Jews for J and Italy for Christ.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Su Coat Overat Tie Accsori Accsory Human Person Tuxedo and Plant" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">The Hammer men: Juli, Armand, and Julian an undated photo.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="k6vdna"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">As of 2021, Armand’s name no longer grac the Metropolan Mm of Art. But onts the stunt center at Oral Roberts Universy, a Christian school where D is a board tstee. In the last two s, ProPubli’s tax rerd database shows, the foundatn has donated over $3 ln to the universy, and another over $4 ln to the Pentestal Dream Centers, among a smatterg of other , relig and not.</p><p class="paywall">Julian died 1996. The year after, Michael moved D, Armie, and his younger son, Viktor, to a seasi ndo on Grand Cayman—briefly relquishg his U.S. cizenship the ’90s. The move, acrdg to Armie, was predited on Michael’s havg been a big fan of <em>The Firm,</em> the movie which Tom Cise travels to the Caribbean tax haven.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Ten years later the fay returned to California, but the transn away om the Caribbean was rocky. In 2005, the 21-room manor Pasana that the fay was renovatg burnt down, rultg $15 ln worth of damag. In 2011, Michael spent the night a Santa Barbara jail for a DUI charge that was subsequently dropped. Later that year, signifintly bigger trouble blew the Hammers’ way when his Knoedler Gallery—part of Michael’s herance om Armand, and one of the olst New York galleri—shuttered sudnly. The next day, the gallery and s former director Ann Freedman were sued by hedge fund executive Pierre Lagrange for sellg him a fed Pollock patg for $17 ln. In the years and lawsus that followed, Knoedler was acced of sellg about $70 ln worth of fake patgs—all pated by a ltle-known artist Queens— a n that allegedly stretched back to 1994. In total, Knoedler was acced of sellg 63 fed piec. All of the 10 lawsus filed agast Knoedler were settled, one midway through a high-profile trial 2016—wh Domeni De Sole, chairman of Tom Ford Internatnal and Sotheby’s, and his wife, Eleanor, seekg $25 ln damag.</p><p class="paywall">Durg the trial, a Knoedler acuntant ttified that Michael Hammer had sentially ed the 8-31 Holdgs group, which owned the gallery, as his personal piggy bank—g a pany cred rd to buy, among other thgs, two luxury rs and a trip to Paris for a ltle over $1 ln. When Hammer sold one of the rs, a Rolls-Royce, 2008, he kept the $452,000 sale, listg on his W-2 as salary.</p><p class="paywall">About an hour before Michael was schled to ttify both parti reached a settlement. Though some the art world predicted that Knoedler’s downfall would damage Michael’s—and tangentially, even Armie’s—reputatn, didn’t seem to.</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj UnBFT"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eXdqOX"><p class="paywall">“That’s got to be te bee that’s the weirst fuckg thg I’ve ever heard. Who would lie about that? That’s weirr than sayg, ‘I tied up 25 people.’”</p></div></asi><p class="paywall">“We ll the guys the lucky sperm club here,” said a person wh ti to the fay. “Never acplished anythg. They know a whole lot about spendg other people’s money.” If there is another skill Michael appears to have, is hirg good lawyers. Var sourc who wanted to speak about the specifics of Michael’s bs and personal tactics—many of them women—say they are ightened to speak on rerd, or have signed paperwork prohibg them om dog so. Michael’s current lawyer, Tom Clare, is reprentg Domn Votg Systems s famatn lawsus agast Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lll—seekg more than $1.3 billn damag om each man for claimg the pany’s votg mach were ed to steal the 2020 electn.</p><p class="paywall">In spe of the sndals, Michael remas a regular fixture Monteco society pag, at old r shows, and around chary events benefg the Santa Barbara police. In 2015, the same year the Armand Hammer Foundatn ma a $1.1 ln donatn to the Petersen Automotive Mm, the anizatn add Michael to s board of directors. The endowment he is most proud of, multiple people say, is his own. For years, three people claimed, Michael boasted about a sex throne or “nghty chair,” as he has lled , that he kept Armand Hammer Foundatn headquarters Carpteria—a warehoe where two people claim Michael lived for several years after his divorce. The stcture, about seven feet high, featur a chair wh a hole the seat, a ge unrneath, and a hook. The Hammer at of arms—the same one that, for years, adorned the exterr of the headquarters—is pated on the seat. In one photo Michael ss atop the throne grng while holdg the head of a blon woman, stg the ge and also sg. In rponse to <em>Vany Fair</em>’s qutns about Michael’s sex throne, dg and alhol e, fanc, and history wh women, Clare, unsel for Michael Hammer and the Armand Hammer Foundatn, said, “The qutns, which ask about unsoliced gag gifts sent by iends, nduct that sounds pretty typil of recently-divorced people, and entirely legal fancial transactns that were properly acunted for, are absurd.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="f9g4v9"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">One former iend, who knew of the sex throne, said that, when he heard about Armie’s alleged kks, “I was not the least b surprised.”</p><p class="paywall">In 2017—several years after he and D divorced—Michael proposed to Misty Millward, a Four Seasons The Biltmore spa “healer,” Michael’s words, who helped him rever om back surgery, wh a seven-and-a-half-rat diamond on the Fourth of July. Speakg to the <em>Monteco Journal,</em> Michael said that his proposal had a patrtic theme: a red alligator-sk Birk bag; Armand’s whe Rolls, which he popped the qutn; and the blue of his very own ey.</p><h2 class="paywall"><strong>CALL HIM BY HIS NAME</strong></h2><p class="paywall">Armie has the same blue ey. And the fay name tattooed on his wrist. When Armie Hammer broke through Hollywood, wh 2010’s <em>The Social Network,</em> the sordid lore of his fay backstory was a footnote, whether fotten or purposely ignored.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">To the world Armie Hammer was simply a rtoon-prce-handsome scn. It’s easy to disunt a betiful person, pecially a betiful person wh a famo last name, as beg one-dimensnal. But Armie spent many terviews over his -long reer telegraphg his own texture.</p><p class="paywall">In 2018, Armie told Conan O’Brien about his own arrt 2011—the same year that Michael was pulled over for a DUI Santa Barbara. Armie and a iend had been transportg suppli for Elizabeth’s bakery, Bird, through Texas when their tck was stopped at a checkpot and a dog sniffed the marijuana. Armie spent the night jail. “The mat were great,” Armie said after meras cut to a mug shot showg him tanned wh a popped llar. “The guards were real asshol.”</p><p class="paywall">And y, he was raised “the fuckg paradise”of the Cayman Islands and “ed to have a patg of Gorbachev that was given to my fay by Gorbachev.” But he was also raised wh good valu, thanks to D, he has said.</p><p class="paywall">“My mother’s parents grew up the Deprsn Oklahoma, so was very different,” Armie told <em>GQ.</em> “She didn’t allow to be raised like we were wealthy. We were never jt told, ‘Hey, here’s [some sh].. our iends were gettg a $10 allowance, she would make a pot of givg $7.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Clothg Apparel Su Coat Overat and Fashn" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Top is Armand, Michael, Casey, Right is Michael and Casey, Bottom is Glenna Sue, Michael, and Casey</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of Casey Hammer.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="rgz38"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">He has claimed fancial pennce om his fay throughout his reer—“I’m really proud of that”—so much so that, 2017, he nfsed he uldn’t pay out a bet he had ma to filmmaker Lu Guadagno. “It would lerally bankpt me, and I need to buy diapers tomorrow.” </p><p class="paywall">Armie’s upbrgg, through his own ey, was pirque. As a child the Cayman Islands, he told Details 2011, he was a machete-wieldg, tree-climbg Tom Sawyer. As an adolcent Los Angel, after a fay move, he was an outst tant who intified wh Maulay Culk’s <em>Home Alone</em> character, set school property ablaze, and dropped out of high school. His image-nsc and outwardly relig parents, Armie said, disapproved of his cisn to act. “My entire life has been this long, prsured nversatn about the fay I reprented,” Armie has said, rellg Armand’s own ethos. “When you walk out the door, you reprent .” Eventually, Armie found succs dog . When Armie booked a starrg role as a young Billy Graham the 2008 bpic <em>Billy: The Early Years,</em> D hosted a screeng for about 300 iends at the Hammer Mm’s Billy Wilr Theater, nfirmed two people wh knowledge of the event.</p><p class="paywall">The year after Armie appeared as the Wklevoss tws <em>The Social Network,</em> Armie starred wh Leonardo DiCapr Clt Eastwood’s <em>J. Edgar.</em> A n at marquee stardom followed—the rom- <em>Mirror</em> <em>Mirror</em> wh Julia Roberts; the actn epic <em>The Lone Ranger</em> wh Johnny Depp; and the 2015 per film <em>The Man From U.N.C.L.E.</em> alongsi Henry Cavill—but fizzled. Armie veloped a sense of humor about his lack of succs as a leadg man. Asked about the low box office return of one film, he adpanned, “That might be the Armie Hammer effect.” As if the box office bts weren’t ego-damagg enough, BuzzFeed piled on wh a damng feature by Anne Helen Petersen tled “Ten Long Years of Tryg to Make Armie Hammer Happen.” The subheadg said all, and still do: “How many send chanc do a handsome whe male star get?”</p><p class="paywall">Guadagno saw gr beneath Armie’s surface, though, and st him 2017’s Osr-wng die <a href=" target="_blank"><em>Call Me by Your Name.</em></a> “It’s not jt that he’s betiful-lookg,” said the filmmaker. “It’s that pl his ner turmoil that is fascatg to me.” The performance earned Armie a Goln Globe nomatn—the most acclaim of his reer. But he bristled one prs terview, tellg Andy Cohen that his relig mother, D, refed to see the film—bee the drama centers on a same-sex romance. “It go agast a lot of her very strong relig beliefs,” he said.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn Yvszg llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Toy Human Person Clothg and Apparel" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Casey Hammer workg as a kchen signer at a San Diego Home Depot.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of Casey Hammer.</span></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">Ocsnal faial ventg asi, Armie looked the part of the perfect movie star. “He’s like this classil leadg man...somebody who’s a ltle out of time, like seeg Gary Cooper walk to a supermarket or somethg,” said Armie’s <em>Lone Ranger</em> director, Gore Verbski. And <a href=" target="_blank"> Elizabeth Chambers</a>—a tough woman like D, but wh an entreprenrial spir li of an evangelil one—Armie seemgly found his match. “I mean, they are the Ken and Barbie of the world,” ghed Kathie Lee Gifford, a iend of the fay’s, rellg the uple’s 2010 weddg.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="q0dppo"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Some people I spoke to scribed Armie as a sweet, goofy, unfiltered guy who lov his children. A what-you-see-is-what-you-get kd of person. Timothée Chalamet once scribed him as the example of “when people prent themselv as they tly are. And Armie is as he tly is.” In hdsight Armie was perhaps more unfiltered than he or anyone realized.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">To <em>Elle:</em> “One chick tried to stab me when we were havg sex.… She was like, ‘Te love leav srs. You don’t have any.’ And then she tried to stab me wh a butcher knife.” He ntued to date her for seven months.</p><p class="paywall">Also to <em>Elle:</em> He relled a vlent altertn wh a homels man. “My wife says I have a ontal lobe issue. Your ontal lobe ntrols your danger rponse, like, ‘Whoa, I shouldn’t be dog this.’”</p><p class="paywall">To Details: He reunted the story of a multi-day, beer-soaked bachelor party that nclud wh an epic bonfire, “a giant tequila bottle full of gasole,” and a mache gun.</p><p class="paywall">To <em>Playboy:</em> He discsed the effect Elizabeth had on his bedroom habs. “I ed to like to be a domant lover. I liked the grabbg of the neck and the hair and all that. Then you get married and your sexual appet n’t really pull your wife’s hair. It gets to a pot where you say, ‘I rpect you too much to do the thgs that I want to do.’”</p><p class="paywall">After <em>Playboy,</em> Armie exprsed regret, explag that he had learned the hard way not to drk durg terviews. But for a 2019 Brish <em>GQ</em> profile, Armie and the wrer drank so many martis that the wrer blacked out.</p><p class="paywall">His reported social-media-likg habs suggted that he was fond of bondage. And he has spoken profely about his love of knots to <em>Playboy</em> (“a man’s versn of kntg”), Stephen Colbert (whom he challenged to a knot-tyg ntt on <em>The</em> <em>Late Show</em>), and <em>InStyle</em> (“I’ve never admted this before...sometim I rry a rope to practice knots”).</p><p class="paywall">A source close to Elizabeth said that, when he was not workg, Armie would throw himself to hobbi wh great tensy. Several years back Armie troduced Elizabeth to shibari, a Japane bondage art form which people are tied up trite patterns. Elizabeth tried to be supportive of the new tert, which Armie allegedly dulged by buyg mannequs and ventg elaborate knots. Elizabeth even tried to fd a lucrative sp on the obssn: “She suggted he wre a book about a hobby lled <em>Why Knot?</em>” lghed the iend.</p><h2 class="paywall"><strong>“THE WEIRDEST FUCKING THING I’VE EVER HEARD”</strong></h2><p class="paywall">Armie and Elizabeth had two children—a dghter 2014 and a son 2017, the latter of whom was given the middle name Armand as an homage to the Hammer leage. Acrdg to a iend close to Elizabeth, Armie nfsed to beg unfahful shortly after his son’s birth—but claimed was a one-time offense. Years later, this iend says, Elizabeth found evince of an affair Armie was havg wh a star. The Hammers had been expensive fay therapy, but, to Elizabeth, the discretns—and more notably his cisn to flee the fay durg a panmic—were the fal straw. When Armie touched down the U.S., he mistakenly sent a rnchy text msage meant for someone else to his tranged spoe. Elizabeth filed for divorce shortly after.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn cpANDM llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Pub and Bar Counter" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Armie Hammer wh Courtney Vucekovich.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">From Courtney Vucekovich.</span></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">By his own admissns over the years, Armie has enjoyed partyg—and, fally ee om the rtrictns of a -long marriage, he dulged eely. Friends close to the fay remark that Armie’s separatn behavr rells Michael’s own. Michael’s post-spl tear is said to have volved a strg of women, illic substanc, and tattoos. It’s a popular misnceptn that the Hammers created the Arm & Hammer bakg soda brand—Armand settled for vtg after his bid to buy the pany was rejected—but Michael fuels wh a tattoo of the popular logo on his arm. The slogan for Arm & Hammer is “the standard of pury”—but Michael allegedly embodied anythg but. Michael, whom multiple people say has the mdset of a teenage boy, also allegedly documented some of his eds—textg X-rated photos to iends.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="bi2fi9"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Two people claim that Armie did the same, sudnly gettg more than five tattoos a matter of months—cludg an outle of the Caymans above his knee; a heart that was ked by the -hoe tattoo artist at Kaia Gerber’s birthday party to match two teenage boys’; the letters “E.G.B.A.,” standg for “Everythg’s gonna be alright”; and the word “chaos” bee he wants his life to be chaos. Said one iend, “I’m pretty sure he’s acplishg that.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Armie also picted a new dark si on his secret Instagram feed, @el_stcto_86. One photo, of him takg a dg tt, was ptned: “All negative, bch. My body is a fely tuned toxint procsg un. To be fair I had THC and benzos my piss. But who don’t.” Another photo showed a mannequ tied up, wh the ptn, “If quarante don’t start movg more quickly I’m gog to fuck this thg.”</p><p class="paywall">Two women who knew Armie romantilly the last year say they were toxited by his charm—and that he was able to cycle through <em>Romeo and Juliet</em>-style romantic proclamatns, teary fay nfsnals, and kky bedroom scenars wh disorientg ease.</p><p class="paywall">Acrdg to Courtney Vucekovich, Armie was on a flight out of the Cayman Islands—pg the “tense” lockdown suatn last June—when he msaged her on Instagram for the first time. The DMs me fast and furly; the actor immediately spilled about the tense suatn wh what he scribed as his “crazy fay”—scribg near-fist fights wh his father and a short-lived pe plan that volved takg a fishg boat to Cuba.</p><p class="paywall">“Wh the first five mut, he was basilly like, this all go back to my horrible childhood,” said Vucekovich, the owner of an on-mand glam app lled FLASHD. “It’s not the most romantic thg, but we bond over past trma.”</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj UnBFT"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eXdqOX"><p class="paywall">Elizabeth Chambers has been jokg to iends that the only thg that mak sense to her, lookg back on her marriage, is the Netflix movie starrg Zac Eon as Ted Bundy—<em>Extremely Wicked, Shockgly Evil and Vile.</em></p></div></asi><p class="paywall">Armie earned her sympathy, acrdg to Vucekovich, through full-urt prs. “Day one, he mak you feel bad for him; ’s when he mak himself look like a victim. Then he love-bombs you like crazy; you’ve never felt more special your entire life. I’ve never seen anythg like . We’re a rtrant, and I’m stg across om him, and he pulls my chair over, right next to him, ont of everybody—and is huggg and kissg you. You’re the only girl the whole world. And then he starts the manipulatn and the darker stuff.</p><p class="paywall">“One of the most shockg thgs, that I realized he did to other women, is he says that he never tied up a human beg before, only mannequs,” she ntued. “I remember thkg, like, That’s got to be te bee that’s the weirst fuckg thg I’ve ever heard. Who would lie about that? That’s weirr than sayg, ‘I tied up 25 people.’”</p><p class="paywall">Vucekovich explaed that one enunter, which took place on an eveng Sedona, Arizona, left her wh regret. Armie, she said, was drkg heavily and persuad her to participate “a bondage scenar that I was not fortable wh.” He sulked, “ld and angry,” to nvce her, and then, she said, “I eventually nsented and really regretted dog so.”</p><p class="paywall">As msy as was, Vucekovich said she felt like was a real relatnship. Armie had troduced her to his mother, D, and talked about brgg her to the Domin Republic while he filmed a romantic edy wh Jennifer Lopez. But jt as fast as the relatnship formed, June, and tensified—the two were spendg nearly every day together, she alleged— end September. She checked herself to a treatment program for trma.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn Yvszg llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Stg Clothg Apparel and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Paige Lorenze wh Armie and his mother D.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of Paige Lorenze. </span></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">In September the then 22-year-old Paige Lorenze met Armie. She, too, got an immediate barrage of sordid fay secrets. “A lot of really dark stuff,” Lorenze said. “I felt nfed why he was tellg me this stuff so was stuff I would never share off the said his grandfather was this kd of very sry person who had the crazy sex parti where there would be guns.” But, said Lorenze, there was an unmistakable tone of awe. “He thought was ol and was proud of him a way.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="4hom3"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Armie took Lorenze to Texas to meet his mother, like he had wh Vucekovich. She enjoyed the trip bee felt like a “normal-relatnship” thg to do, but spected Armie’s relatnship wh D was plited. His mother spoke of “the vil” tryg to “take” Armie, and she worried that he didn’t believe God.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-7 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Lorenze said that D let the two sleep a bedroom together—jokgly pullg out a ler and tellg them to stay six feet apart—but immediately started grillg her about her relig beliefs. “She was very, very sweet to me. She stantly started talkg to me: ‘Well, have I accepted the Holy Spir?’ I’ve never been to such a Christian hoehold.”</p><p class="paywall">After a few days Lorenze said that D opened up to her “about how she was so worried about Armie and so grateful for me bee she felt like I was a good fluence on him. And that she jt wanted him to accept God back to his life. And that he had jt been fightg everythg for a long time.”</p><p class="paywall">Durg their time together, Lorenze said, Armie didn’t have any money. She said that she paid for “everythg,” sce Armie was only gettg by on loans om iends.</p><p class="paywall">Lorenze broke thgs off wh Armie after “he started makg l for me of thgs I uld and uldn’t do, who I uld have over, who I uldn’t. He told me that I uldn’t have anyone else my bed. And then I jt started to feel really unsafe and really sick to my stomach about thgs,” she said. “I was also emotnally pennt on him.” Lorenze end the relatnship over text “bee you never know what you’re gog to get wh him—he’s kd of a sry person.”</p><p class="paywall">Lorenze has sce moved back to the East Coast and wants nothg to do wh the entertament bs. She said she didn’t plan to speak—or thk—about Armie Hammer aga.</p><p class="paywall">Then she saw msag posted on the anonymo @hoeofeffie Instagram acunt, purported to be om Armie and tailg extreme BDSM scenars. The date stamps ranged om 2016 to 2020—overlappg wh Armie’s marriage to Elizabeth Chambers (who, through a reprentative, cled to be terviewed for this story).</p><p class="paywall">“I saw the screenshots and my stomach jt dropped, like, Holy fuck,” said Lorenze. “Bee he would say thgs to , ‘I want to eat your ribs,’” she said. “The srit part of is that I did love him a way,” said Lorenze. “I would’ve let him kd of do anythg. He had a certa hold over me.”</p><p class="paywall">Lorenze said that she spoke up for several reasons: to support the other women g forward, to hold Armie acuntable for what she claims he did to her, and to open up nversatns about nsent. “Consent is really plited—even if ’s nsentg to somethg vanilla sex that you don’t really want to do, and say y n be really trmatizg.” Lorenze said that she hop to “start an anizatn that n advote for safe sex and women learng how to say no.”</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn kwQNtB llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Tie Accsori Accsory Human Person Su Coat Clothg Overat Apparel and Gherardo Colombo" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">The fay: Michael and Casey standg, D wh Viktor, Armand holdg Armie, and Julian Hammer. Michael and D, cir 1989.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Top, urty of Casey Hammer; Bottom, By Bei/Shutterstock.</span></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">Armie’s lawyer, Andrew Brettler, issued a statement about the var accatns that reads, “All teractns between Mr. Hammer and his former partners were nsensual. They were fully discsed, agreed upon advance wh his partners, and mutually participatory. The stori perpetuated on social media were signed to be salac an effort to harm Mr. Hammer, but that do not make them te.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ognb6q"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The allegatns raise a raft of plited qutns about nsent, BDSM boundari, and the tersectn of abe claims and social media. The lawyer Gloria Allred, who was reprentg the person behd @hoeofeffie at the time of publitn, acknowledged that nsent is pecially plex the BDSM muny, where ntrol and power are kks.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-8 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">“The public has not been ted on how to view those who engage BDSM practic. In addn, those who have heard of the BDSM muny may have a negative opn of those who engage such practic,” said Allred. She noted that even if adults “nsent to some BDSM practic, they still have a right to whhold nsent to other practic.”</p><p class="paywall">“Part of the problem is that the victim is extremely vulnerable and tstg,” she said, “and is often taken advantage of by sexual predators who know that many of their victims will be aaid to report the crim agast them for fear of beg blamed and shamed and not believed when they say that they did not nsent to crim agast them.”</p><p class="paywall">No crimal charg or lawsus have been filed agast the actor. Those Armie’s mp maly blame the sndal on the unverified gossip acunt <a href=">@uxmoi</a>, which published and proliferated s Armie claims to more than 750,000 ers January. “You ed to have to verify facts before makg allegatns like this,” said one iend, speakg on the ndn of anonymy. “He’s beg attacked om all different angl on unverified ’s hard for people around him to watch this.”</p><p class="paywall">It is also important to note that no one has actually acced Armie of actg on his alleged nnibalistic fantasi—and he has never nfirmed the texts are his own—but the impuls he purportedly scribed msag to var women are unsettlg at bt:</p><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>“I am 100% a nnibal…. Fuck. That’s sry to adm. I’ve never admted that before. I’ve cut the heart out of a livg animal before and eaten while still warm.”</p></div></blockquote><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>“I want to see your bra, your blood, your ans, every part of you. I would fely be . 100%. Or try to fuck . Not sure which. Probably both.”</p></div></blockquote><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>“If I fucked you to a vegetative state id keep you, feed you, watch you, and keep fuckg you are so sore and broken…. I n’t stop thkg of [fuckg] your actual bra.”</p></div></blockquote><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>“Brand you, tattoo you, mark you, shave your head and keep your hair wh me, cut a piece of your sk off and make you ok for me…. “Who’s slave/master relatnship is the strongt?” We’d w. When I tell you to sl your wrists and e the blood for anal.”</p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="zv4sj"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL kMAUQf paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs fyBRiV blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>“Rapg you on your floor wh a knife agast you. Everythg else seemed borg. You cryg and screamg, me standg over you. I felt like a god. I’ve never felt such power or tensy.”</p></div></blockquote><p class="paywall">If Armie is guilty of anythg, his iend says, ’s havg a penchant for super-kky sex. Kathare Gat, a social anthropologist and the thor of <em>Deviant Dir,</em> told The Cut January that there is ed a nnibal form of sex role play that tends to “volve more realistic scenars...[but i]t’s still fantasy—they’re not actually eatg piec of people, but you will have one person be the meat and another is the preparer.” Victoria Hartmann, thor of <em>I Love Dead People: Insi the Mds of Death Fetishists,</em> told <em>GQ</em> that most people to nnibalism role play are not terted actually harmg anyone. Bee of the nfn and taboos, Armie’s iend thks that the actor is beg unfairly targeted and embarrassed.</p><p class="paywall">One person who has known both Armie and Elizabeth for a thks Armie’s “very dry sense of humor” and a lack of ntext around the text msag are to blame. When the rib-eatg, toe-cuttg screenshots first appeared onle, the person said, “I was like, this is jt Armie makg really perverse jok. And then got nflated wh his [seemgly] newfound tert BDSM sex, which is his prerogative.” Sexual abe allegatns are pecially charged a post-#MeToo climate: “There are a lot nuanc to the subject of sex and nsent, and ’s jt not a topic that people are really patient about the days,” the person said. “He’s a really down-to-earth guy. I thk he’s jt havg a moment.”</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn kwQNtB llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Armie Hammer Human Person Clothg Su Coat Overat Apparel Tie Accsori and Accsory" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO ptn__text">Viktor, Michael, and Armie at a Gala at the Hammer Mm on October 10, 2009 Wtwood, California. Armie wh Elizabeth Chambers 2018. Viktor, Angie, Michael, D, Elizabeth Chambers, and Armie at an event 2014.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">From top, by MARK WOODWORTH/Patrick McMullan via Getty Imag; by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Imag; From Shutterstock. </span></div></figure></div><p class="paywall">“He did some stupid thgs,” admted another person who has known Armie and his fay for more than 20 years. But there is a difference between stupidy and crimal behavr, they ntued. “You don’t send msag like that if you’re a famo movie star. You know your boundari. Given his fay history I’m sure there is some damage there, but he is basilly a sweet man—who apparently lik kky sex.”</p><p class="paywall">After all of this Armie has boomeranged back to the Cayman luxury hotel he was so sperate to flee. “Well… my ex (for a very good reason) wife is refg to e back to ameri wh my children,” Hammer wrote on his private Instagram. “So I have to go back to Cayman… which sucks. Except there are a few silver lgs.” Above the ptn was a vio that showed a woman, om behd, wearg black lace lgerie and stg on all fours on his bed. “Like fuckg Ms. Cayman aga while I’m down there.” (Armie later issued an apology and clarifitn that the woman his picture was not the actual Miss Cayman.) Another post read, “Divorce is so fun. Not as fun as dgs. But what is.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="lcf9pc"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Acrdg to Brettler, “Armie’s primary ncern now is seeg his kids.”</p><h2 class="paywall"><strong>“DON’T GO OUT AFTER DARK”</strong></h2><p class="paywall">Armie may not be the first Hammer acced of darkns, but he uld be the first to suffer public nsequenc. His last film—tled, unbelievably, <em>Crisis</em>—premiered the quiet shadow of s star’s P.R. spiral Febary. Another film, <em>Death on the Nile,</em> an Agatha Christie adaptatn starrg Gal Gadot, is currently schled for a September release. The only statement Armie ma me January, when he told the public why he was leavg the Jennifer Lopez rom-: “I’m not rpondg to the bullsh claims but light of the vic and spur onle attacks agast me, I nnot good nscience now leave my children for 4 months to shoot a film the Domin Republic.” Armie’s lawyer told <em>Vany Fair</em> he would not be mentg for this story.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-9 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Those who know Armie profsnally have had a hard time watchg the Armie they knew seemgly implo a f of social media posts, bad behavr, and substance abe recent months. (Though how would Armie’s namake, Armand, have fared a social media world?) But neher will anyone speak on rerd to support him.</p><p class="paywall">Several people Armie’s mp imply that the timg of the allegatns, given the divorce proceedgs, is spic. But a source close to Elizabeth says that she has been “bldsid left, right, and center.” She was huiated enough seeg Armie photographed wh a strg of women so shortly after filg for divorce, when their children had not even been aware of the spl. “The ter is forever, and kills her that one day her children will see how brazen their father has been, not only wh his sual datg and dg e, but wh the eply disturbg allegatns.”</p><p class="paywall">A person once close to the fay has exprsed genue ncern for Elizabeth as she mov forward her ctody battle wh the Hammers. “I want to tell her to be reful,” the person said. “I hope she n jt get off that island soon.”</p><p class="paywall">Elizabeth has told iends that while she is fearful herself, she is projectg strength for the kids and tryg to fd ocsnal humor the darkns. She’s been jokg to iends that the only thg that mak sense to her, lookg back on her marriage sce the allegatns surfaced, is the Netflix movie starrg Zac Eon as Ted Bundy—<em>Extremely Wicked, Shockgly Evil and Vile.</em></p><p class="paywall">People are worried about Casey, too. She has been speakg openly about her fay’s alleged secrets the wake of the public’s newfound tert the Hammers. Recently, she received a text msage om a woman who knows three generatns of Hammer men.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dScZLG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><div class="ExternalLkEmbedWrapper-hNDkqw SqhAH" data-ttid="external-lk-embed--le"><div class="ExternalLkEmbedText-glBTSy kAxHEA"><a aria-label="Not a subscriber? Jo now and <strong>never miss a story</strong>." class="external-lk external-lk-embed__hed-lk button" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ExternalLkEmbedHed-dSIMOS iUEiRd idpFCc ldPVhb">Not a subscriber? Jo now and <strong>never miss a story</strong>.</span></a><svg class="ExternalLkEmbedArrowIn-kYztoV dQMQjq in in-arrow" focable="false" viewBox="0 0 32 32" width="32" height="32" xmlns="><tle>Arrow</tle><path d="M21.071 15L15 8.929l1.414-1.414L24.9 16l-8.485 8.485L15 23.071 21.071 17H8v-2z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></div><a aria-label="Not a subscriber? Jo now and <strong>never miss a story</strong>." class="external-lk external-lk-embed__image-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ExternalLkEmbedRponsiveImage-iGydLQ dGzCDw rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w" siz="100vw"/></picture></a></div></div><p class="paywall">“Don’t go out after dark,” the woman texted her. “If you do, go a group. Park unr a light and near a store entrance. Valet as much as you n. Be ‘aware’ and ‘beware.’ Always check to make sure you’re not beg your surroundgs for a stranger’s face that appears more than once.”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="cm6t46"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Right now Casey has about $100 her savgs acunt.</p><p class="paywall">“If you would have told me my 20s that I would end up fancially challenged, sgle, and workg at Home Depot, I would have bet you a ln dollars that wouldn’t have happened.” The herance settlement lasted her 18 years, and she’s been gettg by on her own sce then, she said, eatg Progrso soup and bologna sandwich.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-10 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">She joked—sort of—about her own plans. “I’m gog to walk to [talent agency] WME,” Casey said, “and I’m gog to tell them, ‘You got rid of the bad Hammer. Now how about you take the good one.’”</p><p class="paywall">If her brother, Michael, had given her even one of the fay patgs, she said, she’d be set for life. “I never was tght to save money or to thk ahead. I never thought would end. It’s okay, though. Bee I broke the cycle, if that mak sense, and got away om the Hammer geic trail.”</p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="paywall headg-h3"></div><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="paywall headg-h3"><strong>More Great Stori From</strong> <em><strong>Vany Fair</strong></em></div><p class="paywall">— <a href=" target="_blank">On Wh the Show!</a> See the 2021 Hollywood Portfol<br/>— Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopks on <a href=" target="_blank"><em>The Silence of the Lambs</em>’ Legacy</a><br/>— X-Rated: The <a href=" target="_blank">Myths and Legends</a> of <em>Midnight Cowboy</em><br/>— Michael B. 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She vers film, televisn, and celebry. In spe of her tle, she liv on the East Coast. You n follow her on <a href=" target="_blank">Twter</a>.</div><a href="/ntributor/julie-ler" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ContributorHearSeeMoreLk-iRIKOz iUEiRd bJVYxx UDwfc gkcXuI">See More By Julie Miller <!-- -->»</a></div></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM eHLzLy grid--em"></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"></div></div></sectn></div></div></sectn></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"></div></div></div><div data-ttid="ContentFooterBottom" class="ContentFooterBottom-jwWZfC kcbyiW"><div class="ntent-bottom-anchor"></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-footer" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-footer"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div><div data-attr-viewport-monor="" class="recirc-list-wrapper viewport-monor-anchor"><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan ContentFooterRelated-kEBiFe kVUuwq"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 SummaryCollectnGridComponent-ktyEog jjSZac summary-llectn-grid RecircListDefltOverlaySummaryCollectnGrid-AHJhY fAVIjD recirc-list__ems summary-llectn-grid--four-lumns summary-llectn-grid--TextBelowLeft"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="SummaryCollectnGridContent-eVUpRm gOErDJ"><div class="SectnTleRoot-dBGvdq eVFNKx SummaryCollectnGridSectnTle-fCmYwG izjbVn" data-ttid="SectnTle"><hear class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SectnTleHed-dKqZet bVCFRm ktpdQe QVDXy">Read More</hear></div><div class="SummaryCollectnGridItems-DZShR iWpCgr hi-read-more-ad" data-ttid="SummaryCollectnGridItems"><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-1" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Brief Death (and Short Rebirth) of Lil Tay" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Celebry</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-1" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Brief Death (and Short Rebirth) of Lil Tay</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Jt after her 16th birthday, the 2018-era social media phenomenon returned to the spotlight wh a perplexg ath hoax. In the aftermath, former associat see the handiwork of her brother, who veloped the persona that first brought her fame.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Dan Adler</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="25 Perfect TV Episos From the Last 25 Years" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">25 Perfect TV Episos From the Last 25 Years</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The past quarter century’s bt TV episos, om <em>Mad Men</em> and <em>The Sopranos</em> to <em>Succsn</em> and beyond.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Hillary Bis</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Kyle Dchanel, the Rothschild Who Wasn’t" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Style</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Kyle Dchanel, the Rothschild Who Wasn’t</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">When Kyle Rothschild Dchanel arrived New York nightlife and venture fundraisg circl a few years ago, he was an stant h. Equal parts charm, enterprise, and fabulo fay wealth, he seemed to live on a 24/7 roel of mega-dollar als and r parti. It was almost as if he had njured his entire existence out of th air. What if he had?</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Nate Freeman</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="6kdhg9"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="UNC’s Stunt Journalists Make a Searg Front-Page Statement In the Wake of Camp Shootg" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">News</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">UNC’s Stunt Journalists Make a Searg Front-Page Statement In the Wake of Camp Shootg</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k"><em>The Daily Tar Heel</em> filled s spread wh panicked text msag stunts sent while unr lockdown, a stirrg display that is still reverberatg across the mastream media.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Charlotte Kle</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Film That Returned William Friedk to Cril Acclaim" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Movi</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-5" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Film That Returned William Friedk to Cril Acclaim</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">On the ocsn of the director’s ath, we take a look back at one of his most important works, the 1985 film <em>To Live and Die LA</em>. In this darkly sctive portra of Los Angel the 1980s, is impossible to distguish the l that divi right and wrong.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Maxime Jab</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Summer of Spe Is Almost Over. Are We Done Beg Speful?" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Style</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-6" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Summer of Spe Is Almost Over. Are We Done Beg Speful?</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">From Mk vs. Zuckerberg to vdictive Ron DeSantis to those vlent ors, we’re livg an era of vengeance.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Rachel Dos</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm cNQsbv" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="“Long-Term Damage”? Bob Iger, Ted Sarandos, and David Zaslav’s Bad-PR Summer" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Hollywood</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-7" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">“Long-Term Damage”? Bob Iger, Ted Sarandos, and David Zaslav’s Bad-PR Summer</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Wh Hollywood’s wrers and actors on strike, stud boss were obv ndidat to be st as the villas. Some believe they played the role too well.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi hYsZi summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Natalie Jarvey</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff fKazuH summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center 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class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl clSLtF summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Award Season</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-8" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ khUTXM summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Wh the Sexy <em>Passag</em>, Ira Sachs Remds Why He’s an Essential Indie Voice</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The 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