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The disgraced actor Armie Hammer’s stepmother is suing her brother, alleging that Viktor Hammer is preventing her from accessing cash left to him in his father Michael’s will.
Misty Millward, who married Michael Hammer in 2017, filed court papers on January 10, accusing Viktor, 35, of blocking her inheritance.
Armie, 36, is not named in the lawsuit.
Michael, who inherited most of a $40 million oil fortune, died in November of cancer at the age of 67.
Armie Hammer is pictured with his brother Viktor in October 2015. Viktor Hammer is being sued by his stepmother over his father’s inheritance.
Armie Hammer is seen with his stepmother Misty shortly after the death of Michael Hammer
Millward alleges that Viktor used his job as a stock broker at Morgan Stanley to prevent her from receiving more than $2 million in an account that Michael set aside for her.
She says she tried to transfer the money on December 23, a month after her husband’s death, but was unable to do so.
“Morgan Stanley has refused to transfer the Account containing securities and cash in excess of $2 million to Misty, thereby breaching Morgan Stanley’s contractual obligation to Misty as beneficiary,” the complaint states.
“This position is similar to Morgan Stanley’s position in refusing to honor authorized transfers of funds from foundations created by Michael Hammer, the Armand Hammer Foundation, Inc., and the Hammer International Foundation, Inc., all caused by Viktor Hammer’s interference.
‘As an immediate result of Defendant’s default as alleged herein, Plaintiff has suffered damages in an amount to be shown at judgment, plus interest at the statutory rate and attorneys’ fees, in a total amount to be shown at the time of trial. ‘
Millward accused Viktor of “illegally attempting to seize control of all accounts and assets of the two foundations, Armand Hammer Foundation, Inc., (AHF) and Hammer International Foundation, Inc. (HIF).”
Michael Hammer died in November at the age of 67. He appears in a photo from October 2016.
The businessman, who worked in investment banking before taking over the family business Occidental Petroleum, died in November
Viktor (left) and Armie (right) in 2009 with their father Michael Hammer
“Viktor Hammer has no legal authority to take charge of the accounts or to control or exercise direction over the accounts,” his lawyer said, in court documents obtained by Sun.
However, at Viktor Hammer’s insistence, Morgan Stanley has refused to comply with Michael Hammer’s directive to transfer the Accounts to Misty.
She is seeking a refund of the money plus damages.
Meanwhile, Armie remains an outcast thanks to a series of revelations, beginning in January 2021, about his sexual fetishes and violent fantasies.
Hammer’s wife, Elizabeth Chambers, filed for divorce in July 2020, and six months later, he was in the eye of a frenzied storm, with accusations of affairs, cannibalism, sexual coercion and brutality.
The couple share two children: seven-year-old daughter Harper and five-year-old son Ford.
Armie Hammer, 35, and his ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers, 39, are seen in March 2018 at the Oscars.
Hammer and Chambers with their children Harper and Ford in December 2019
A series of text messages Hammer sent to one of his accusers. It was shared anonymously in 2021 when he was first accused. It is not clear who he sent it to.
A pair of text messages that Armie Hammer allegedly sent to Courtney Vucekovich were revealed in the documentary that disturbed the ex-girlfriend
The messages he sent to women included talk of extreme sexual ties and disturbing cannibalistic urges.
“I want to eat you…I’m 100% cannibalistic,” one message read, while others included troubling admissions of wanting to eat a woman’s ribs and cut off her toes.
A woman accused him of rape.
The Los Angeles Police Department has investigated and Hammer has never been charged, but the allegations turned out to be catastrophic for Hammer’s career and he was subsequently dropped by the talent agency WME, as well as his personal publicist.
He was replaced in Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding by Josh Duhamel, and Miles Teller took over his role in the television series The Offer, which dramatizes the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic The Godfather.
Although cut from those productions, Hammer had already finished filming the Kenneth Branagh-directed mystery Death On The Nile, which features a cast that includes Branagh, Gal Gadot, Annette Benning, Russell Brand and Rose Leslie, among others.
A trailer for the film was mocked by viewers after he seemed to do his best to minimize the actor’s involvement, though his brief appearances proved too much for many viewers.
American Express sued Hammer over a $67,000 unpaid credit card bill, though the case was dismissed this week.
He reportedly lives in the Cayman Islands and sells timeshare.
In September, Discovery+ launched a three-part documentary series, House of Hammer, detailing the Hammer family’s relationships and dynasty.
The series interviewed two of Hammer’s ex-girlfriends, Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, and members of the Hammer family.
The dark history of the Hammer family is detailed in a recent Discovery+ docuseries titled ‘House of Hammer’. The documentary claims the disgraced actor was obsessed with BDSM, forced a male attendee to lap dance and drove drunk at 140 mph through a residential area.