Armie Hammer dropped from thriller ‘The Billion Dollar Spy’ following rape allegation

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Embattled Hollywood star Armie Hammer has been dropped from Amma Asante’s thriller “The Billion Dollar Spy” within the wake of rape allegation. Hammer was set to star alongside actor Mads Mikkelsen within the Cold War drama.

Based on the real-life story, the film was set to function Hammer as Brad Reid, a contemporary arrival on the Moscow station of the CIA, the place he’s approached by Soviet engineer Adolf Tolkachev, performed by Mikkelsen.

Hammer’s exit from the Walden Media challenge comes nearly two weeks after it was reported that the actor was beneath police investigation after a girl alleged she was violently raped by him in 2017. A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson had stated at the moment that Hammer was the principle suspect in a sexual assault that was reported to police on February 3.

Hours earlier than the investigation, a girl known as Effie accused Hammer of rape in a press convention with lawyer Gloria Allred. Prior to that the 34-year-old actor discovered himself embroiled in an enormous controversy after a sequence of his Instagram direct messages had been leaked on-line by an unverified account earlier this 12 months.

These messages, a few of which date again a number of years, detailed affairs, sexual misconduct and cannibalistic fantasies.

Hammer’s former girlfriends have additionally come on report with damaging allegations of sexual abuse and cannibalistic tendencies, resulting in his departure from excessive profile Hollywood initiatives comparable to film “Shotgun Wedding” and sequence “The Offer”.