Back in 2017, a Hollywood gossip guru who goes by “Enty” alleged that actor Armie Hammer humiliated his own wife by publicizing the unorthodox details of their sex life. Two years later, Enty revealed that Hammer and his wife were spotted at a swingers club.
Ah, those wild Hollywood types! All in good fun, right?
Not really. Where there’s bondage and swinging, it turns out, there’s often abuse and exploitation.
A slew of allegations have emerged that Hammer abused various women with his violent fantasies; Hollywood sources say they had always assumed that Hammer and his (now ex-)wife had an open marriage. The range of Hammer’s extramarital targets is so wide-ranging that I know at least one who is a friend of my friend.
The allegations are extreme and credible. The most galling claim comes from Paige Lorenze, who says that Hammer carved the letter A into her skin above her pubic bone, and her Instagram account features a number of photos with subtle bruises on her body from the time when the two were “dating.” Another ex, Courtney Vucekovich, told Page Six that a drunken Hammer had coerced her into uncomfortable sex acts and that on top of his controlling and obsessive behavior, she was made aware of his cannibalistic fantasies of eating one of her ribs. Cannibal and rape fantasies show up in a number of screenshots produced by women who say that he was messaging them. Hammer denies the allegations.
The #MeToo movement may have waned in politics, but in Hollywood, it’s still very much alive, with new protocols in place to protect actresses during intimate scenes and predators still being exposed. But how was Hammer then allowed to prey on a plethora of women so recklessly while he was married?
Before #MeToo, Hammer could scold his scolds as “kink-shamers.” But the details of Hammer’s “liberated” lifestyle show how, especially coming from men of fame, wealth, or power, “kink” can simply be a cover story for “abuse.”
