Actor Armie Hammer is underneath investigation for sexual assault, Los Angeles police mentioned Thursday.
Hammer’s lawyer denied the allegation.
Hammer is the principle suspect in a sexual assault that was reported to police on Feb. 3, LAPD spokesman Officer Drake Madison mentioned. Police would give no additional particulars on the incident or who made the report.
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Earlier Thursday at a video information convention, a girl mentioned that on April 24, 2017, in Los Angeles, Hammer raped her for 4 hours, slammed her head towards a wall and dedicated different violent acts towards her.
The Related Press doesn’t usually establish alleged victims of sexual assault.
The girl appeared on digital camera however recognized herself solely by her first title, Effie.
“Throughout these 4 hours I attempted to get away however he wouldn’t let me,” she mentioned via tears. “I believed that he was going to kill me. He then left with no concern for my well-being.”
The girl’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, mentioned they’d given proof to Los Angeles police, together with photographs of Effie’s accidents. Allred declined to say after they made the report, and wouldn’t verify that it was the one made in February that the LAPD is investigating.
Effie was 20 when she and Hammer met on Fb and started a relationship in 2016, they usually had their final contact final yr, Allred mentioned.
Hammer’s lawyer mentioned in a press release that from the start he has maintained that every one of his interactions with Effie and each different sexual accomplice “have been utterly consensual, mentioned and agreed upon upfront, and mutually participatory.”
The assertion known as her allegations “consideration looking for and ill-advised” and mentioned “her personal correspondence with Mr. Hammer undermines and refutes her outrageous allegations.”
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“With the reality on his facet, Mr. Hammer welcomes the chance to set the document straight,” Andrew Brettler mentioned.
The assertion included a screenshot that Brettler mentioned was a textual content message alternate in July of final yr between Hammer and Effie, during which she expresses a want for tough, forceful intercourse with him, and he responds by saying he now not desires a relationship together with her.
The 34-year-old actor was married on the time to tv character Elizabeth Chambers. They divorced final yr.
Hammer first gained fame via taking part in twins in 2010’s The Social Community, and is finest identified for his starring roles in 2017’s Name Me By Your Title and 2013’s The Lone Ranger.
Most just lately, Hammer starred within the Netflix remake of Rebecca. A sequel to Name Me by Your Title with Timothée Chalamet has additionally been in growth.
Allegations of sexual violence in current months have derailed Hammer’s profession.
Earlier this yr, an Instagram account started posting screenshots of textual content messages allegedly from Hammer way back to 2016. Allred wouldn’t touch upon whether or not her shopper was behind that account, @houseofeffie. When these textual content messages started showing in media studies, Hammer known as them “vicious and spurious on-line assaults towards me.”
After these texts had been printed, Hammer departed the comedy Shotgun Wedding ceremony, during which he was to star alongside Jennifer Lopez, shortly earlier than manufacturing was to start. He quickly after departed the Paramount+ sequence The Supply, in regards to the making of The Godfather.
Hammer was additionally dropped by his company, WME.
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