On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not be filing sexual-assault charges against actor Armie Hammer, putting an end to a more than two-year-long ordeal that featured harrowing accusations of violent rape, B.D.S.M., and cannibalistic fetishism.
Hammer’s seemingly charmed life came crashing down in 2021 when a woman identified in the media only as “Effie” alleged that he had violently raped her four years earlier. Simultaneously, several other women emerged to accuse Hammer of sexual misconduct. Hammer was fired from every film, television, and theater project he was working on and dropped by his talent agency, and he withdrew from public life. From the beginning, he denied any legal wrongdoing.
