Armie Hammer, Great-Grandson of Oil Tycoon, Can't Afford Gas ...
Celebrities—they’re just like us? Days after Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny inquired about a New York City sublet on her Instagram Story, Armie Hammer has taken to the ’gram to announce he’s selling his car—and saving some money in the process.
On Tuesday, the actor—who turns 39 Wednesday—told his followers, “I will be starting my birthday in a new car, in a new apartment, in a new life.” In the two weeks since moving back to Los Angeles from the Cayman Islands, where he briefly sold time-shares, Hammer said he’d “put about four or five hundred dollars’ worth of gas” in his truck. “And I can’t afford it. I can’t afford the gas anymore.”
After DMs in which Hammer allegedly described graphic sexual fantasies—including rape, cannibalism, and violence—were leaked online in early 2021, the actor was dropped by his talent agency and publicist. He has not acted onscreen since 2022’s Death on the Nile, which he began filming in 2019. After Hammer was publicly accused of sexual misconduct and abuse in 2021, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced last year that criminal charges would not be filed against him. In a 2023 interview for Air Mail, Hammer maintained that all allegations of rape are false—although he said he did engage in acts of “consensual non-consent” with one accuser, in which they role-played a rape scenario.
More than three years after his fall from grace, the Call Me by Your Name star said that he was giving up his gas-guzzling truck for a tinier, more cost-effective hybrid vehicle. “I’m probably gonna put about 10 bucks of gas in it a month,” said Hammer, who shared news of the trade outside of a CarMax, a company that buys used cars, but insisted that the post was “not an ad for CarMax.”
Still, Hammer mourned the loss of the car he bought as a gift for himself in 2017. “I just keep telling myself that parking is gonna be easier and gas is gonna be cheaper,” he said, after thanking the truck, which People has identified as a 2017 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali pickup, for road trips and transporting his two kids home from the hospital. “I appreciate it all,” Hammer concluded. “I hope you take as good of care as the next person.” Actor Justin Theroux and Hammer’s ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers were among those to like Hammer’s post.
Although the actor is the great-grandson of 1950s oil tycoon Armand Hammer, Armie has declared he won’t ask his wealthy family for money. “There are no free lunches. Anything that you take has strings,” Hammer told Bill Maher on his podcast in July. He even expressed gratitude for his current circumstances. “The good place only comes from walking through hell. It was a brutal experience,” said Hammer. “Someone might look at me and go, ‘Yeah, but financially you’re in a very different position than you’ve ever been in your entire life.’ And I look at that and I go, ‘Yeah, and you know what it’s taught me is that I don’t need that, because I’ve never been happier than I’ve ever been in my entire life.’”
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