(CNN) — The Los Angeles Attorney’s Office is reviewing the sexual assault allegations filed against actor Armie Hammer, CNN learned.
“I can confirm that the LAPD has submitted a case involving Armie Hammer to LADA. The matter is currently under review,” the bureau’s communications director, Tiffiny Blacknell, told CNN.
CNN has contacted Hammer for comment.
Hammer has previously denied the rape allegations and, in an interview with Airmail in February, stated: “He led a very intense and extreme lifestyle, and he would pick up these women, he would throw them into it – in this whirlwind of travel and sex. and drugs and big emotions flying everywhere – and then as soon as I was done, I would drop them and move on to the next woman, leaving that woman feeling abandoned or used.”
Although the district attorney’s spokesman did not specify the identity of the complainant or complainants, it is known that Hammer has been under investigation for sexual assault since February 2021, after a woman accused him of raping her in 2017.
Hammer has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing, saying at the time through his lawyer that the allegation was “outrageous” and said his interactions with the woman and other couples have been “completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon beforehand.” .
In March 2021, Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred introduced her 24-year-old client, identified only as Effie, who said she was raped by Hammer. CNN has reached out to Effie for further comment, as she and Allred have since separated.
Effie, who lives in Europe, said she was in an on-and-off romantic and intimate relationship with Hammer from 2016 to 2020. She was 20 when she met Hammer on Facebook, and she “fell in love with him instantly,” she said. She claimed that Hammer often tested her devotion to him and pushed her limits. As time went on, Hammer became “increasingly violent”, according to Effie.
“He abused me mentally, emotionally and sexually,” he declared during the press conference. Effie accused Hammer of violently raping her for more than four hours in Los Angeles on April 24, 2017. He said he committed acts of violence against her, to which he did not consent, including allegedly hitting her feet with a riding crop He hurt to walk for the next week, Effie said. “I thought she was going to kill me,” she said. Effie said that she has lived in fear of him and tried to dismiss her actions towards her as a “twisted form of love”. Effie said that she even lost interest in living because of what she claims happened to her.
A recent Discovery+ docuseries, “House of Hammer,” has brought Hammer’s sexual abuse allegations back to the fore. Like CNN, Discovery+ is part of Warner Bros. Discovery.
