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Armie Hammer Speaks Out for First Time Since Sexual Abuse Scandal
Warning: This communicative discusses rape and suicide.
Authorities are not moving guardant with the rape allegation against Armie Hammer.
Following an investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department, the District Attorney's Office is not charging the Call Me By Your Name histrion for the alleged 2021 assault of a pistillate who goes by Effie.
"Sexual battle cases are often hard to prove," Tiffiny Blacknell, Director of the Bureau of Communications for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, told E! News successful a connection May 31, "which is wherefore we delegate our astir experienced prosecutors to reappraisal them. In this case, those prosecutors conducted an highly thorough review, but determined that astatine this time, determination is insufficient grounds to complaint Mr. Hammer with a crime."
The connection said that the prosecutors person an "ethical responsibility" to lone contented charges erstwhile the crimes tin beryllium proved "beyond a tenable doubt."
"We cognize that it is hard for women to study intersexual assault," it continued. "Even erstwhile we cannot determination guardant with a prosecution, our unfortunate work representatives volition beryllium disposable to those who question our unfortunate enactment services."
The District Attorney's bureau spokesperson went connected to mention the reasons wherefore the lawsuit was incapable to determination forward.
"Due to the complexity of the relationship," Tiffiny concluded, "and inability to beryllium a non-consensual forcible intersexual brushwood we are incapable to beryllium the lawsuit beyond a tenable doubt."
E! News has reached retired to Effie and Hammer's lawyers for remark but hasn't heard back.
Back successful March 2021, Effie alleged at a property league that Hammer raped her aft they met connected Facebook and began a narration successful 2016. Hammer has denied the allegations, with his attorney Andrew Brettler antecedently labeling them arsenic "outrageous."
At the property conference, Effie alleged that the Social Network histrion "violently raped" her connected April 24, 2017 for implicit 4 hours successful Los Angeles.
"He repeatedly slapped my caput against a partition bruising my face," Effie said, with her lawyer Gloria Allred by her side. "He besides committed different acts of unit against maine to which I did not consent."
Other erstwhile partners of Hammer person besides spoken publically astir their relationships, including ex-girlfriend Paige Lorenze, who told E! News successful 2021 that the Crisis prima "slowly started easing her into BDSM-related activities successful the bedroom," adding that the acts were consensual.
In September 2022, Discovery+ released the docuseries House of Hammer, successful which ex Courtney Vucekovich said that she had participated successful intersexual acts with the 36-year-old that included biting and bondage. She described 1 alleged incidental successful peculiar arsenic "very degrading and precise belittling."
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Hammer aboriginal addressed the sexual misconduct allegations for the archetypal clip successful an interview with Air Mail in February 2023. Hammer acknowledged "one cardinal percent" that helium was emotionally abusive to his accusers, and determination was an "imbalance of power" successful his relationships with Vucekovich and Lorenze. He added that the women were a decennary younger than him and that helium was a "successful histrion astatine the time" they were involved.
Hammer besides responded to Effie's rape allegation, saying it was really a "scene" that helium claims was planned retired successful beforehand via Facebook Messenger. However, the Death connected the Nile histrion said helium deleted the messages.
"This alleged rape was a country that was her idea," helium said. She planned each of the details out, each the mode down to what Starbucks I would spot her at, however I would travel her home, however her beforehand doorway would beryllium unfastened and unlocked and I would travel in, and we would prosecute successful what is called a ‘consensual non-consent scene,' CNC."
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Hammer besides got candid connected however the intersexual misconduct allegations—which came months after his 2020 split from woman Elizabeth Chambers after 10 years of marriage—took a toll connected him. He told Airmail that he attempted termination portion quarantining successful the Cayman Islands a period aft the archetypal accusation.
"I conscionable walked retired into the water and swam retired arsenic acold arsenic I could and hoped that either I drowned, oregon was deed by a boat, oregon eaten by a shark," helium shared. "Then I realized that my kids were inactive connected shore, and that I couldn't bash that to my kids."
For free, confidential help, telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-4673 oregon sojourn rainn.org.
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
