ONTD Original: A Look at Armie Hammer s Gross Family History, As Told By His Aunt
Late this January, TikTok user thezenblonde started what turned into a 12-part series about the book,
Surviving My Birthright, a 2015 memoir written by Armie Hammer s paternal aunt, Casey. In the book, Casey writes about growing up in the Hammer family, including awful abuse at the hands of her father and brother.
With Armie s sadistic grossness coming out these last few months, it s understandably started to get renewed attention.
Before we get deeper into all that, let s start with the basics:
Armie s great-grandfather was Armand Hammer, an multi-hyphenate industrialist who was chairman/CEO of Occidental Petroleum from 1957 until his death in 1990 whose parents had immigrated from Russia to the US in 1875.