US actor Armie Hammer has been accused of raping a woman in Los Angeles in 2017. The allegations were made during a virtual news conference on Thursday. Effie, a 24-year-old Instagram influencer who has an Instagram account that goes by the name of "House Of Effie" went on public record to recount the events of the alleged 4-hour-long encounter. She spoke alongside high-profile women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred, alleging she first met Hammer on Facebook in 2016, when she was 20. She said the alleged rape happened on 24 April, 2017, the BBC reported. She said that Armie raped her for over four hours in Los Angeles, during which he repeatedly slapped her head against a wall, bruising her face.
Armie's lawyer Andrew Brettler dismissed the allegations and said that all of the actor's relations with the woman had been "completely consensual, discussed and agreed upon in advance, and mutually participatory".Armie first gained fame through playing twins in The Social Network. He is best known for his role in 2017s Call Me By Your Name. He has faced allegations of sexual violence in recent months after an Instagram account began posting screenshots of text messages allegedly from Hammer as far back as 2016. “I’m not responding to these bullshit claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me,” he said at that time. Armie and his ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, announced their divorce in July 2020. In January, the actor had stepped away from starring alongside Jennifer Lopez in the romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding.