CAPTION: Grandson Michael Hammer with Dru Ann Mobley at their 1985 wedding. But Dru sure opened my eyes," Michael said in a phone interview from the Cayman Islands, where he and Dru and their two young sons have moved to a seaside condo with seven unlisted phone numbers (according to directory assistance). Drugs. The champagne was alcohol-free.Since the marriage, Mobley and his daughter have had a powerful influence on Michael, though Michael calls it something else: "I wouldn't say I was influenced. Brown cleverly found something to admire -- a Gauguin notebook -- which he wrote to Hammer about, saying the National Gallery would be proud to own it.
Best known for his ties to Occidental Petroleum, the company of his late grandfather, Hammer oversees the Hammer International Foundation, the Armand Hammer Foundation, and owns numerous businesses … He also made large contributions to many arts and cultural institutions here, and is fondly remembered at the Corcoran for giving $2 million to renovate what is now the Armand and Frances Hammer Auditorium and to stave off the inevitable admission fees.The National Gallery of Art ended up with the best art Hammer's money ever bought. Dru Hammer has 190 photos and videos on their Instagram profile. Countless charities uncharitably got in line to collect what Hammer had promised them.
"It worked. Instead of the "billions" assumed and reported in death notices, there was an estimated $40 million left, according to Epstein's book. Five months later they were wed before 950 people in a Methodist church in her home town, "the buckle on the Bible Belt," Michael calls it. Tricking him into leaving the room, she snitched, copied (and returned) a document, handwritten by Hammer, that proved he'd made secret provisions for her, as well as for another mistress who'd borne him a daughter.
Christian CharityThe man who announced Hammer's deathbed conversion at his funeral was Douglas L. Mobley, father of Michael Hammer's wife, Dru Ann Mobley. (The company had also just written off more than $2 billion in Armand Hammer's extravagances and money-losing business deals, as Epstein's book details.) dru ann mobley: armie hammer instagram: armie hammer imdb: 12 3 4 5. Shrinking FortuneManaging Hammer's money isn't the job his obituaries suggested. The bar mitzvah went on as planned, however -- but his friends got a shock at the funeral two days later.
Hammer would have been proud. Michael Hammer did not respond to a request for additional comments.Michael didn't get much cash, but he got all the power, a chunk of stock and several lucrative sinecures as executor, trustee and foundation president, which alone paid $145,000 in 1995. The National Symphony Orchestra wanted (and got) the balance on $250,000 it was promised for playing "Happy Birthday" at Hammer's 90th birthday celebration at the Kennedy Center; the Danielle Mitterrand Fund wanted (and is getting) $300,000 in exchange for the French first lady's presence at the opening of the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, which turned out to be Hammer's last public appearance.Most costly have been suits brought by family members, mistresses and an illegitimate daughter who, after years of promises, were summarily cut out of Hammer's will during his final months.
He raised $20 million for cancer research at the National Cancer Institute alone, and a good deal more through Stop Cancer, an organization he helped found in Los Angeles.
But we can still accomplish the same goals: helping people," he said. Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor. "Let's face it," says Hammer's former mistress Gibson, "Armand gave Michael carte blanche, so he can do what he damn well pleases. "We got the cream of his collection," said former National Gallery director J. Carter Brown, who moved in on Hammer right after his collection of paintings had been mercilessly panned in 1970 after a show at the Smithsonian. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hammer's name has been removed from the prominent Hall of Arms and Armor on the main floor, for which Hammer had already paid $800,000 of a $1.8 million pledge. I just couldn't find it {anywhere else} -- and believe me, I looked! Michael sent $250,000 in cash for bail. He relocated his family and the foundation to Dallas.Since then, tracking down Michael and the foundation has been difficult.
While everyone else was snickering, Brown offered to help Hammer build a truly great collection of master drawings, the thing the gallery then needed most. "We ended up with $1 million and got the gallery back," said Hawkins, barely able to contain his glee.The Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, unfinished at the time of Hammer's death, has been turned over to the nearby UCLA art department under a 99-year management agreement, or "merger," as Michael calls it.
"It was an ego the size of which we'd never encountered before," Brown said.
"Michael doesn't care about us anymore," says his mother, Sue Kane. She, too, was cut off in Hammer's final days, despite 18 years of promises of an income for life from a secret $10 million account in Switzerland. "But as {National Gallery official} Huntington Cairns used to say, what really matters is, when the smoke clears, who's got the pictures. In 1995 he gave $45,000 to the evangelistic foundation run by her father. On the 1995 tax returns, the Mobley Foundation reports that Michael gave $45,000, nearly twice the $24,000 given by Mobley himself. According to Epstein, Hammer changed his will a dozen times in his last-minute scramble to hide aspects of his life from discovery during the $440 million lawsuit filed by Joan Weiss, heir to his late wife Frances' estate. Seven months after his arrest, a jury acquitted Deitrick of the money-smuggling charges.According to Twin Cities news stories at that time, Deitrick's passport recorded nearly a dozen recent trips abroad lasting less than 36 hours. Armie Hammer, Actor: The Social Network.
I went through a lot of experiences," Michael says. Since the book's publication, new information shows that the fortune built by the late oil millionaire and philanthropist, once dedicated to the arts, cancer research and world peace, is now being used to support the evangelical Christian causes of Hammer's grandson Michael, who controls the estate.Instead of the New York City Opera, the Elie Wiesel Foundation, Ford's Theatre and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hammer's money is now going to Jews for Jesus, Italy for Christ, Don Dennis Ministries, Marty Goetz Ministries, Mike Barber Ministries and to the evangelistic foundation set up by Michael's father-in-law, a former Tulsa banker turned lay preacher.In addition, Hammer left a lot less money than the billions people assumed he had -- but it is being fought over nonetheless.