Armie Hammer's Lawyer Addresses Those Concierge Rumors
The discovery+ docu-series House of Hammer is facing disapproval aft featuring an alleged photograph of a wound mark.
The bid premiered connected the level Sept. 2 and featured accuser Courtney Vucekovich, who elaborate her narration with histrion Armie Hammer. In the show, the concern proprietor said she had been love-bombed by the Social Network star and that she had participated successful intersexual acts—including bondage and biting—with him, contempt her discomfort. She said that she ne'er told him "no" during specified encounters.
As Vucekovich elaborate their interactions, a photograph of what she said was a wound people was shown on-screen. "I deliberation Armie took that picture," Courtney said successful the series. "He bites truly hard. And helium tells you to deterioration them similar a badge of honor, astir similar helium convinced maine I'm fortunate to person it."
However, viewers began to question the authenticity of the photo after they recovered a akin representation of a wound tattoo connected Pinterest.
Since then, the image has been replaced with different photograph provided by Vucekovich. "We instrumentality earnestly the work of representing victims' stories," a spokesperson for Talos Films, the accumulation institution down the series, told People Sept. 6. "When caller accusation came guardant astir this bid we instantly began investigating it and volition marque immoderate due changes arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."
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The connection continued, "We are arrogant of those who came guardant to stock their information to the public—including Courtney Vucekovich and Casey Hammer—and basal firmly down the important connection successful this docuseries."
Courtney explained the discrepancy successful a abstracted connection to People, saying that the representation was sent to her by Hammer. "When you are love-bombed, you person aggregate images successful accelerated succession," she said. "During my clip with Armie, I received galore messages including countless images and videos. The wound people shown was a photograph sent by Armie wrong our archived substance thread and implicit a twelvemonth later, I believed it to person been a photograph of maine fixed that I person dozens of photos depicting his maltreatment connected my body."
She went connected to accidental that she spoke retired successful the hopes of preventing different women from experiencing intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their partners.
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Hammer has not publically addressed the docu-series, which details the intersexual maltreatment allegations against the actor, arsenic good arsenic his family's background. E! News reached retired to his lawyer for remark connected the bid and has not heard back.
The histrion has faced allegations of bizarre behaviour by aggregate partners, and 1 accuser, a young pistillate named Effie, accused him of rape successful 2021.
The LAPD went connected to denote an probe into Effie's claims but nary transgression charges person been filed. Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office spokesperson Greg Risling told E! News connected Sept. 1 that a specially assigned authoritative is moving with instrumentality enforcement arsenic their investigation continues. "Once instrumentality enforcement has completed their probe and submits the lawsuit to our Office," Risling said, "we volition behaviour an valuation and record transgression charges that are supported by the evidence."
Hammer has denied each allegations of intersexual abuse, rape and different misconduct, maintaining that each intersexual encounters betwixt him and the accusers were consensual. "From time one, Mr. Hammer has maintained that each of his interactions with [Effie]—and each different intersexual spouse of his for that matter—have been wholly consensual, discussed and agreed upon successful advance, and mutually participatory," Hammer's attorney, Andrew Brettler, said successful a connection to E! past year. "[Effie's] attraction seeking and ill-advised ineligible bid volition lone marque it much hard for existent victims of intersexual unit to get the justness they deserve."
House of Hammer is streaming present connected discovery+.
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