Armie Hammer's Businessman Father Michael Armand Hammer Dead at 67 from Cancer - PEOPLE

Michael Armand Hammer, the businessman begetter of histrion Armie Hammer, has died. He was 67.

A root confirms with PEOPLE that Michael died from cancer.

TMZ was archetypal to study the news, adding that Michael — who is the grandson of lipid magnate Armand Hammer, who ran Occidental Petroleum Corporation — died connected Sunday.

His decease comes 4 months aft PEOPLE confirmed Armie, 36, traveled backmost to Los Angeles from the Cayman Islands, wherever sources said helium was selling timeshares astatine a resort. The root said the histrion — who sought treatment successful 2021 for drug, intoxicant and enactment issues — "needs the money" aft his begetter "won't assistance him anymore and he's been chopped off."

(A lawyer for Armie wouldn't corroborate to PEOPLE whether the histrion was indeed selling timeshares but said "it's s----y that the media seems to beryllium shaming him for having a 'normal job.' ")

Months aft his woman Elizabeth Chambers filed for divorce successful July 2020 pursuing 10 years of marriage, Armie was embroiled successful contention aft messages allegedly from the histrion detailing convulsive intersexual fantasies were leaked online. The Call Me by Your Name histrion was aboriginal accused of rape by a pistillate with whom helium had been successful a relationship, which helium categorically denied.

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This past February, a root said Armie's "main precedence is to beryllium sober and enactment sober for the kids and Elizabeth."

Back successful September 2020, Armie told British GQ astir isolating with his household successful a Cayman Islands flat on with Michael and stepmom Misty Millward, whom Michael projected to successful 2017. "It was a truly concentrated household time, which is truly large with the kids, but it was intense," helium said astatine the time.

"Handle it well? No. It was a precise complicated, aggravated situation, with large personalities each locked successful a small tiny place," helium added astatine the time. "It was tough, man. I'd ne'er dealt with thing similar that earlier successful my life, truthful I didn't person the tools. It was conscionable this happening that snuck up connected everybody. I don't deliberation I handled it precise well. I think, to beryllium rather frank, I came precise adjacent to wholly losing my mind."

"I conscionable felt wholly powerless," helium continued. "And I was connected an land wherever the lockdown was truthful terrible that message couldn't adjacent travel in. I felt truthful intensely trapped, similar a wolf who got caught successful a snare and wants to chew his ain ft off. I was conscionable like, 'I can't bash this. Get maine retired of here.' "

Armie antecedently told Vulture backmost successful 2017 astir the "serendipitous" mode his parent Dru Ann Mobley primitively met Michael connected an airplane. Michael and ex-wife Dru shared 2 sons, Armie and Viktor.

"My dada was expected to beryllium connected a flight, went to the airport, and got hammered and passed out. He missed his flight, woke up, and was like, 'Oh God, I person a meeting!' So helium had to spell to each the airlines and helium got the past spot disposable connected this tiny hose called Muse Air, which doesn't adjacent beryllium anymore," said Armie astatine the time. "He's gangly — 6-foot-2 — and highly claustrophobic, truthful aft sitting successful this mediate spot for a while, helium stood up and said, 'I'm truthful sorry, everybody, but I truly can't bash this. Is determination anybody who mightiness beryllium consenting to power seats with me?' "

Continued Armie, "And the idiosyncratic adjacent to my ma was like, 'Yeah, I'll power seats with you.' So helium sat adjacent to my mom, who was traveling with her fellow astatine the time, though helium was dormant for the full flight. After they'd been talking for a portion and hitting it off, my dada was like, 'Is that your boyfriend?' And my ma said, 'Nope.' And that was however it each benignant of started."

Michael's sister Casey Hammer spoke retired successful a discovery+ docuseries that debuted earlier this twelvemonth called House of Hammer. The bid looked into the allegations against Armie, arsenic good arsenic "the dark, twisted bequest of the Hammer dynasty" and household history.