Woman Claims Armie Hammer Raped Her for Hours
"I thought that he was going to kill me." So says
a 24-year-old woman who claims actor Armie Hammer violently raped her for more
than four hours in 2017. The woman identified as Effie spoke at a virtual news
conference with attorney Gloria Allred on Thursday, the same day Los Angeles
police confirmed Hammer was the suspect in a sexual assault investigation
opened Feb. 3. Effie said her relationship with the actor, 34, "progressed
rapidly" after she met him on Facebook in 2016. "It is now clear to
me he was employing manipulation tactics in order to exert control over me
until I started to lose myself," she said, per BuzzFeed News. "He
would often test my devotion to him, slyly removing and crossing my boundaries,
as he became increasingly more violent." She said Hammer raped her on
April 24, 2017, while repeatedly slamming her head into a wall and beating her
feet with a crop, per the Los Angeles Times.
"I tried to get away, but he wouldn't let me,"
said a tearful Effie. But she said she "tried so hard to justify his
actions, even to the point of responding to him in a way that did not reflect
my true feelings." Hammer attorney Andrew Brettler shared a screenshot of
a text message Effie allegedly sent Hammer in July 2020, expressing
"graphic sexual requests," per the Times. Brettler pointed to Effie's
"fetishes," noting all of Hammer's sexual encounters have been
"completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance and mutually
participatory." However, two other women claim Hammer pressured them into
BDSM acts, per the Times. Allred is challenging Hammer to present all of his
communications with Effie, who is believed to be behind the Instagram account
that previously shared messages said to be from the actor. One read,
"Raping you on your floor with a knife against you ... I felt like a
god." (Hammer's agency already dropped him.)
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