Armie Hammer, Great-Grandson of Oil Tycoon, Can’t Afford Gas Anymore

Celebrities—they’re similar to us? Days after Oscar nominee Chloë Sevigny inquired a couple of New York Metropolis sublet on her Instagram Story, Armie Hammer has taken to the ’gram to announce he’s promoting his automobile—and saving some cash within the course of.

On Tuesday, the actor—who turns 39 Wednesday—instructed his followers, “I shall be beginning my birthday in a brand new automobile, in a brand new house, in a brand new life.” Within the two weeks since shifting again to Los Angeles from the Cayman Islands, the place he briefly bought time-shares, Hammer mentioned he’d “put about 4 or 5 hundred {dollars}’ value of fuel” in his truck. “And I can’t afford it. I can’t afford the fuel anymore.”

After DMs through which Hammer allegedly described graphic sexual fantasies—together with rape, cannibalism, and violence—had been leaked on-line in early 2021, the actor was dropped by his expertise company and publicist. He has not acted onscreen since 2022’s Dying on the Nile, which he started filming in 2019. After Hammer was publicly accused of sexual misconduct and abuse in 2021, the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace introduced final 12 months that prison expenses wouldn’t be filed in opposition to him. In a 2023 interview for Air Mail, Hammer maintained that each one allegations of rape are false—though he mentioned he did interact in acts of “consensual non-consent” with one accuser, through which they role-played a rape situation.

Greater than three years after his fall from grace, the Name Me by Your Identify star mentioned that he was giving up his gas-guzzling truck for a tinier, cheaper hybrid automobile. “I’m most likely gonna put about 10 bucks of fuel in it a month,” mentioned Hammer, who shared information of the commerce outdoors of a CarMax, an organization that buys used automobiles, however insisted that the put up was “not an advert for CarMax.”

Nonetheless, Hammer mourned the lack of the automobile he purchased as a present for himself in 2017. “I simply preserve telling myself that parking is gonna be simpler and fuel is gonna be cheaper,” he mentioned, after thanking the truck, which Individuals has recognized as a 2017 GMC Sierra 1500 Denali pickup, for street journeys and transporting his two children dwelling from the hospital. “I admire all of it,” Hammer concluded. “I hope you’re taking pretty much as good of care as the following particular person.” Actor Justin Theroux and Hammer’s ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers had been amongst these to love Hammer’s put up.

Though the actor is the great-grandson of Nineteen Fifties oil tycoon Armand Hammer, Armie has declared he gained’t ask his rich household for cash. “There aren’t any free lunches. Something that you simply take has strings,” Hammer instructed Invoice Maher on his podcast in July. He even expressed gratitude for his present circumstances. “The great place solely comes from strolling by means of hell. It was a brutal expertise,” mentioned Hammer. “Somebody may have a look at me and go, ‘Yeah, however financially you’re in a really completely different place than you’ve ever been in your complete life.’ And I have a look at that and I am going, ‘Yeah, and you realize what it’s taught me is that I don’t want that, as a result of I’ve by no means been happier than I’ve ever been in my complete life.’”