An legal professional for the sufferer contacted legislation enforcement, which resulted within the LAPD sexual assault division to open an investigation on February 3, a police spokesperson informed CNN. Hammer has denied the rape allegation.
On Thursday, Los Angeles legal professional Gloria Allred launched her 24-year-old shopper, recognized solely as Effie, who stated she was raped by Hammer.
Effie, who lives in Europe, stated she had an on-and-off romantic and intimate relationship with Hammer from 2016 to 2020. She was 20 when she met Hammer on Facebook, and he or she “fell in love with him instantly,” she stated.
She claims Hammer would usually check her devotion to him and push her boundaries. As time went on, he allegedly turned “increasingly more violent,” Effie stated.
“He abused me mentally, emotionally and sexually,” she stated Thursday by tears.
Effie accused Hammer of violently raping her for over 4 hours in Los Angeles on April 24, 2017. She stated he dedicated acts of violence towards her, to which she didn’t consent, similar to allegedly beating her toes with a crop. It damage for her to stroll for the subsequent week, Effie stated.
“I thought that he was going to kill me,” she stated.
Effie stated she has lived in worry of him and tried to dismiss his actions in the direction of her as a “twisted form of love.” Effie stated she even misplaced curiosity in dwelling due to what she alleges occurred to her.
In an announcement, Hammer’s legal professional refuted Effie’s claims as “outrageous,” saying all Hammer’s interactions together with her and different companions “have been completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory.”
“Effie[‘s]… own correspondence with Mr. Hammer undermines and refutes her outrageous allegations,” Hammer’s legal professional, Andrew Brettler, stated. “As recently as July 18, 2020, [she] sent graphic texts to Mr. Hammer telling him what she wanted him to do to her. Mr. Hammer responded making it clear that he did not want to maintain that type of relationship with her.”
Brettler’s assertion included what he stated was a screenshot of an express textual content dialog between Hammer and Effie.
“It was never Mr. Hammer’s intention to embarrass or expose [her] fetishes or kinky sexual desires, but she has now escalated this matter to another level by hiring a civil lawyer to host a public press conference,” he stated.
Allred stated it has been “extremely traumatic and triggering” for Effie to discuss these allegations.
Effie stated she feels immense guilt in not popping out sooner however hopes her story will encourage “survivors of sexual assault around the world” to come back ahead with their tales in hope of justice.
“Despite the emotional price that she has had to pay by speaking her truth, she has found the courage to discuss what she alleges has happened to her for two reasons,” Allred stated. “First, she wants to warn other women who may come into contact with Mr. Hammer of possible risks in their relationship with him.
“Second, Effie has been contacted by many others who allege that they’ve additionally been victimized by Mr. Hammer within the sexual relationship that they’ve had with him,” she added.
Allred said there are no plans to file a lawsuit at this time, but that evidence has been turned over to law enforcement that might assist in an investigation of Hammer.
“We do suppose it is vital that an investigation of those severe allegations is performed,” Allred said. “We stay up for studying if Mr. Hammer, reasonably than his representatives, will probably be keen to help investigators of their search for the reality.”
In January, the 34-year-old actor released a statement in response to allegations by his ex-girlfriend Paige Lorenze, where he stated that all sexual activities outside of his marriage were “utterly consensual in that they had been totally mentioned, agreed upon and mutually participatory.”
