says that he hasn't inherited a significant chunk of his family's wealth that would allow him to stop working.
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Armie Hammer discloses inheritance from fathers fortune
Armie Hammer says that he hasn't inherited a significant chunk of his family's wealth that would allow him to stop working.The 39-year-old actor, speaking with ...
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The 39-year-old actor, speaking with The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday, said that he did not get life-changing money in the wake of his following a battle.
'It's just one of those things that's so complicated, you have to be a tax attorney to fully understand it,' the native, who is the great-grandson of late business magnate Armand Hammer, told the outlet.
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The actor's great-grandfather Armand Hammer , from which Armie's father inherited $180 million, according to multiple reports.
The Call Me By Your Name actor said that 'the end result' financially following his father's passing 'was not I'm set for the rest of my life, or even for the next couple of years ... it hasn't been that.'
Hammer, who has also been seen in films such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Lone Ranger, fell into controversy in early 2021 after several women accused him of sex abuse and .
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Armie Hammer, 39, says that he hasn't inherited a significant chunk of his family's wealth that would allow him to stop working. Pictured in LA in 2025
He was subsequently dropped from his agency WME and lost a number of roles he had on tap, including the film Shotgun Wedding and the Paramount Plus series The Offer.
Hammer seen at the 2020 E! People's Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, months before allegations interrupted his career
The Call Me By Your Name actor pictured at a March 23 Clippers game in LA
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'I was back in a city that felt like it used to be my city, but it had moved on without me,' Hammer told the outlet. 'I made these problems for myself.
Hammer reflected on the consequences of his past actions, which left him unemployable in show business for a five-year stretch.
'This didn't happen to me by a fluke accident,' he said. 'I didn't do what people are saying I did. But I brought very dangerous and unsafe people into my life, and I pissed off people in my life - and here we are.'
Hammer told THR he gained a measure of clarity in the days following his father's passing as he had a discussion with 'an old Jamaican guy' bemoaning how friends in show business would text him with supportive messages, but not take up for him publicly.
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The man laid forth an analogy to Hammer, asking if he would want his friends to get burned if his house was on fire.
'I would want them to stay as far away from the fire as possible,' Hammer concluded, to which the man told him, 'Now you're thinking like a real friend,' before wandering off.
He said of the impactful exchange: 'I think that was a spiritual moment - Joseph Campbell would have called it a mentor moment in my hero's journey, whatever the f*** that is.'
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