In an email, Jan Ward, Casey and Michael’s half sister, declined to comment on the allegations, instead offering this statement: “I will say that I love my family very much which includes my brother, my sister, and my nephews…I do have wonderful memories of us kids spending every summer at Laguna Beach with our Grandma Olga and spending the holidays with our parents and grandparents. In her self-published 2015 book, Surviving My Birthright, Casey alleges that Julian sexually abused her when she was a child, and that Julian was abusive to others in the family, allegations she also made to Epstein. Per the biographer, she drove a car with a homing device, used a tapped phone, and submitted to his sexual demands even when they were “extremely humiliating.” When Armand died, she learned that he had left her out of his will. The affair lasted over a decade, with Armand promising to take care of her and her children after he died, she later told Epstein. When Armand’s wife, Frances, grew suspicious, Armand had Martha legally change her name to Hilary Gibson-insisting, according to Epstein, that his mistress wear wigs, glasses, and makeup to change her appearance. Bush later pardoned him.Īrmand had multiple mistresses, including Martha Kaufman-a mother of two who divorced her husband after meeting Armand, and whom he put on Occidental’s payroll as an art consultant. He also made an illegal contribution to the Nixon reelection campaign which, “in all likelihood,” according to The New York Times, “went to help pay for the Watergate cover-up.” Though he faced a felony charge for obstructing justice, a Washington lawyer helped him plead guilty to misdemeanor charges, and H.
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Per Epstein, Armand bugged his office and home, plus his cuff links, to record decades’ worth of conversations, had a fixer, and was known to do business with a briefcase full of cash. He died in 1990.īut in 1996, Epstein’s bombshell biography exposed the late Occidental Petroleum chairman for wide-ranging grifts, including laundering money using artwork to fund Soviet espionage bribing his way into the oil business and knocking off Fabergé eggs. Bush, among other presidents) collected expensive artwork and convinced Chinese leaders to lend two pandas to Los Angeles for the city’s 1984 Olympics. and attended the inaugurations of FDR, Reagan, and George H. He had a private Boeing 727 palled around with Prince Charles and high-powered politicians (he was a close friend of Senator Al Gore Sr. That’s my family.’”Īrmand tried to distance himself from his Soviet connections, reimagining himself as a self-made industrialist-he even hired a journalist to ghostwrite a memoir, The Remarkable Life of Dr.
“I started watching Succession and I had to turn it off,” says Armie’s aunt Casey Hammer, “because it was like, ‘Oh, my God.
While there, he married a Russian singer named Olga and together they had a son named Julian-Armie’s grandfather.īy the 1950s, Armand had divorced Olga as well as a second wife, Angela, who had told the court that, due to his time in Russia and his medical training, “ causes him no pain to see the sufferings of others.” He moved to Los Angeles, married a wealthy woman named Frances Barrett Tolman in 1956, invested her money in the then failing Occidental Petroleum, and drove the company to incredible success. According to Epstein, Vladimir Lenin sent a message to Joseph Stalin encouraging “particular support” for Armand, telling him, “This is a small path to the American ‘business’ world and this path should be made use of in every way.” Armand moved to the Soviet Union in 1921 for about a decade to fortify family connections. With Julius in prison, his 22-year-old son, Armand Hammer (Armie’s namesake), abandoned a medical career to take over his father’s other business, Allied Drug.
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