“This documentary contains vivid descriptions of violence, sexual abuse and coercive control.”
That’s the warning viewers will see when they first tune in to “House of Hammer,” a new three-part docuseries from Discovery+ that reveals details about the sex abuse allegations against Armie Hammer.
In early 2021, a storm of unverified messages that The Social Network star had allegedly been sending to women surfaced on social media after one of his ex-boyfriends began anonymously posting graphic messages in which Hammer allegedly wrote, “I am 100% a cannibal.” and “I want to eat you.” Messages tumbled and Hammer’s career went into free fall.
Hammer has denied all allegations, claiming that all interactions with his sexual partners were consensual and mutually involved. But numerous women have accused him of abuse, coercion and even rape, leading to an investigation by the LAPD.
If you’ve been on social media for the last year and a half, “House of Hammer” repeats a lot of what you may have already seen. But the docuseries reveals more of the messages (which Hammer never verified) while also delving deep into Hammer’s troubled family history. (He is the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer.)
Hammer’s team has not responded to any of the allegations made in House of Hammer. An attorney for the actor declined to comment on the documentaries when contacted by Variety.
Here are some of House of Hammer’s biggest bombshells and allegations.
Hammer reportedly sent a voice memo to a woman saying he intended to tie her up with ropes and “incapacitate her.”
“All right, buckle up. That will be the bet. If I win, I’ll come over to your house with my bag of goodies,” Hammer’s voice is heard on the show in an alleged voice message. “My bet was to show up to you and fully tie and incapacitate you and then be able to do whatever I wanted with every single hole in your body until I was done.”
Hammer referred to a woman as his “slave”.
“I decide when you eat, when you sleep,” was an alleged text from Hammer, as shown on screen. Hammer often seemed to call his sexual partners “kittens,” and in one message allegedly referred to a woman as “my personal little slave.”
“You’re mine! You hear me? I own you now. I will own you forever,” read another unconfirmed text from Hammer.
Julia Morrison, an artist who says she was contacted by Hammer on Instagram, appears on camera in the docuseries to share some of the messages she allegedly received from the actor.
“I have a fantasy about someone proving their love and devotion and tying them up in a public place at night and using their body freely … and seeing if they fuck strangers for me,” Morrison read out loud, reading her lyrics.
In another text, Morrison explained that Hammer wrote: “You think or care about nothing but being a good little pet. My very own little slave… that’s why you’re worshipped, fed and fucked.”
A woman says Hammer showed up unannounced at her apartment building.
Courtney Vucekovich says she met Hammer at a bar in 2019. The next morning, she says, he added her to Instagram. A few months later, Hammer messaged her via the social media app and began a series of daily calls and texts. Vucekovich explains that through regular communication, she and Hammer have become very close and share their trauma, which has created a deep connection. She says Hammer “love bombed” her and she believed it.
Vucekovich says before they ever met in person, Hammer showed up at her Dallas, Texas apartment and sent her a photo of the building. This was after he called her 22 times in a row, she claims. “LEAVE,” Vucekovich Hammer wrote in capital letters. “WHY ARE YOU THERE,” she wrote. She claims Hammer replied, “I’m trying to find your scent.”
“I remember thinking, ‘Are we flirting? Or is that scary?’” says Vucekovich in front of the camera.
Hammer then sent her photos of the entrance to her building and texted, “I’m going in. Nothing you can do to stop me.” He left her a note. When she opened the envelope, it said, “I’m gonna bite the hell out of you” with his signature.
“I didn’t know what to make of the note,” Vucekovich said. “I took it metaphorically, not literally. I just thought he wanted intimacy and closeness and wanted us to be together, so I decided to take it flatteringly rather than worryingly. When I told my friends about our conversation, I left that part out. I think that says a lot.”
Hammer tracked a woman’s location on his phone, one woman claims.
Vucekovich, the lead prosecutor in “House of Hammer,” claims Hammer tracked her whereabouts on his cell phone. One day, while out for a walk with a friend, Hammer showed up on his scooter, she says.
“I fell right back into it,” admits Vucekovich. “I thought it was romantic. I thought, ‘He’s fighting for me.’”
Vucekovich says she tried to break up with Hammer, but he wouldn’t leave her alone, and she relapsed into the relationship.
“When you really care about someone, it’s kind of crazy what you’re willing to overlook or justify,” she explains. “But then there are these things that keep happening … I would have handprints that would stay on my body.”
Hammer told women his bite marks were a “badge of honor.”
“He bites really hard,” Vucekovich says on camera, sharing a picture of a bite mark on the skin she believes Hammer photographed.
“He tells you to wear them like a badge of honor,” she says. “Almost like he convinced me I’m lucky to have it. As crappy as it sounds, at the time I interpreted that as love. When I see this now, I get sick. He pushes your limits a bit.”
Hammer allegedly wanted to brand a woman.
In the various alleged texts shown on screen, Hammer’s graphic messages occasionally reveal fantasies towards the women with whom he communicates.
“I want to bite you and leave a mark and then have that mark turned into a tattoo,” Hammer allegedly wrote. “Tag yourself, tattoo you, tag yourself, shave your head and keep your hair with me, cut off a piece of your skin and let it cook for me.”
One woman says she didn’t say no, but she didn’t feel safe.
Vucekovich says Hammer convinced her to engage in BDSM activities despite feeling insecure.
“He told me he only ever ties up mannequins, never people. He wants to share that with me — that fantasy, that experience, something new that he’s never tried with anyone,” explains Vucekovich. She recalls that in an effort to get out of the situation, Hammer told Hammer that she wasn’t feeling well. She says he got angry. “I was like, ‘How do I get out of this?'”
“He was drunk. I wasn’t. I didn’t say no. I said I don’t feel good. I said everything but ‘no,'” says Vucekovich while addressing a harrowing scene. She says Hammer put on a “creepy playlist” and tied ropes around her wrists, neck, ankles and behind her back.”I had bruises. I hated it. I get it if that’s your fantasy or thing – more power to you.” – but I didn’t like it. It didn’t feel safe. I didn’t feel loved. It was awful. You feel completely immobilized. There’s something about trauma while you’re immobilized and you can’t move. There’s that struggle -and-flight fight and you can’t do both. You’re just stuck there. I closed my eyes until it was over and he just fell asleep like it was nothing.”
Vucekovich tells the producers that after this incident she wrote in her diary that Hammer wanted “control” and “compliance”.
“I’ve cut out the heart of a live animal before and eaten it while it was still warm.”
One of the most shocking pieces of news seems to show Hammer cutting out the heart of an animal and eating it.
“I have once cut out the heart of a live animal and eaten it while it was still warm,” Hammer allegedly wrote. “Completely raw. Still warm…I would eat your heart if I wasn’t stuck without you afterward.”
In another text, he reportedly wrote, “I’m 100% a cannibal… Shit, it’s scary to admit.”
Another of his messages reportedly said, “I need your blood. I yearn for it.”
And in another: “I want to see everything… I want to see your brain, your blood, your organs, every part of you… I would definitely bite it… 100%… or try to fuck it.” I’m not sure which… probably both.”
One text allegedly shows Hammer telling a woman that he enjoyed “raping you on your floor”.
“You were the most intense and extreme version of that I’ve ever had. Raping you on your floor with a knife against you. Everything else seemed boring,” reads a text allegedly written by Hammer to the woman behind anonymous social media account House of Effie. This woman, known as Effie, accused Hammer of rape during a press conference along with her attorney, Gloria Allred. It became the basis of an LAPD sexual assault investigation into Hammer.
“You cry and scream, I stand over you. I felt like a god,” the alleged lyrics read. “I’ve never felt such power or intensity.”
“I will not lie,” Hammer wrote in another alleged message. “The fact that you cried and crawled away while I chased you down your hallway was so intoxicating.”
Hammer’s aunt thinks the men in her family are ‘true monsters’
The actor’s aunt, Casey Hammer, who is estranged from the family, serves as a counselor on House of Hammer. She appears on camera in the documentaries and says she wasn’t surprised when the actor’s scandal surfaced.
Speaking of her wealthy family, she says: “On the outside we were a perfect family, but underneath lay a dark world of deceit, betrayal and corruption. And that’s why I’m signing up now. It’s time to stop the cycle.”
Referring to her brother and the other men in the Hammer line, Casey Hammer says that Armie Hammer’s approach to women stems from the other male characters in his life.
“That’s the mark of a true monster. You can look in the mirror and not see an aunt or that you’re doing something wrong, and that’s how deep it goes with my brother, and that’s why it’s so scary because he’s unconscious,” she says. “And now it’s Armie.”
She continues, “Every generation of my family has been involved in dark misdeeds. And it keeps getting worse. There is so much beneath the surface that is finally coming to light.”