The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that no criminal charges will be filed following a police investigation into allegations of sexual assault against actor Armie Hammer.
In 2021, the Los Angeles Police Department launched an investigation against Hammer after a woman accused him of raping him in April 2017. Hammer’s Hollywood career was derailed by allegations and accusations of physical abuse from her other women. . Hammer claims that all of her interactions with women were entirely consensual.
District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Tiffany Bracknell said in a statement Wednesday that due to the “complicated” relationship between Mr. Hammer and a woman named “Complicated,” there was “no evidence to charge Mr. Hammer.” insufficient,” he said. he has not been released.
Prosecutors were unable to prove there was “non-consensual and forced sexual contact,” she added.
“As prosecutors, we have an ethical responsibility to prosecute only cases that can be proven beyond reasonable doubt,” Bracknell said.
In an Instagram statement, Hammer said he was grateful to prosecutors “who stood by the whole time and came to the conclusion that no crime was committed.”
He added that he is looking forward to “it will be a long and difficult process to rebuild my life now that my stigma is cleared.”
Gloria Allred Law Firm, which organized a press conference for the woman in 2021, said it no longer represented her and had no comment.
Hammer has not been charged with any charges related to the other women’s accusations.
A woman in her 20s under investigation in Los Angeles said at an online press conference in March 2021 that she was raped by Hammer for over four hours in Los Angeles on April 24, 2017. She said Mr. Hammer raped her repeatedly. She hit her head against the wall, bruised her face, and hit her leg with a crop.
“During those four hours, I tried to escape, but he wouldn’t let me,” the woman told a news conference. “I thought he was going to kill me. Then he left without caring about my health.”
Hammer’s attorney, Andrew B. Butler, said shortly after the press conference that the woman’s own “correspondence with Mr. Hammer undermines and refutes her outrageous allegations.”
Hammer, who rose to fame as an actor in 2010 films such as The Social Network, has twin brothers Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss accused of stealing ideas from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. acted.
In 2017, Hammer starred in the drama film Call Me By Your Name, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and voiced the character in the third installment of the Cars series. But he hasn’t taken action since the allegations surfaced in 2021. According to IMDB, his last acting job was in the Disney movie Death on the Nile, which was released in February 2022.
Hammer said in February, claiming he had done nothing criminal. Airmailin a digital newsletter, said he was “one million percent” certain he was emotionally abusing his accusers.
“The young women are in their mid-twenties and I’m in my thirties,” he told Airmail. “At the time, I was a successful actor. No. It’s a power imbalance in the situation.”
