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"Buzzfeed news"
>>rumors
>Gee, I wonder who is pushing that narrative.
Early life
Hammer was born in Santa Monica, California.[1][2] His mother, Dru Ann (née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer,[3] and his father, Michael Armand Hammer, owns several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions (a film/television production company).[4][5] He has a younger brother, Viktor.[6]
Hammer has described his background as "half Jewish."[7] His paternal great-grandfather was oil tycoon and philanthropist Armand Hammer, whose parents were Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from the (then) Russian Empire, and were of Ukrainian Jewish descent;[8][9][10][11][12][13] Armand's father, Julius Hammer, was from Odessa (now in Ukraine, but then in the Russian Empire), andfounded the Communist Party in New York.[14][15][16]
Armie's paternal great-grandmother was Russian-born actress and singer Olga Vadimovna Vadina, the daughter of a tsarist general.[11][12] His paternal grandmother was from Texas, while his mother's family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.[17][18]
Hammer lived in the Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park for several years.[19] When he was seven, his family moved to the Cayman Islands, where they lived for five years, and then settled back in Los Angeles.[20][21] He attended Faulkner's Academy in Governor's Harbour, Cayman Islands, and Grace Christian Academy, also in Grand Cayman (a school founded by his father in West Bay, Grand Cayman), and later went to Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley. He dropped out of high school in eleventh grade to pursue an acting career. Subsequently, he took college courses at UCLA.[21] Hammer said his parents disowned him when he decided to leave school and take up acting but have since become supportive and proud of his work.[22]
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