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Armie Hammer made an apology for incorrectly referring to a woman wearing lingerie in an Instagram video that he posted as “Miss Cayman”. “I would like to clarify that the person in my video, who was stolen from my private Instagram, is not Ms. Cayman, ”said Hammer in an audio message to Cayman Compass. “I am sincerely sorry for any confusion that my foolish attempt at humor may have caused. My deepest condolences to Miss. Cayman, whom I don’t know, and the entire organization, since I had no intention of suggesting that she was actually Miss. Cayman. “
In the video posted to his secret Instagram account @ el_destructo_86, Hammer takes a video tour of a hotel room at The Ritz Carlton in the Cayman Islands, in which a woman in lingerie sits on all fours on the hotel bed. The video had the following caption: “Well… my ex (for a very good reason) refuses to go back to America with my children. So I have to go back to Cayman … which sucks. Except that there are some silver linings. As af – king Mrs. Cayman again while I’m down there. ”Hammer is currently in the process of divorcing his ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, who lives in the Cayman Islands with the couple’s children. The face of the woman that Hammer refers to as Mrs. Cayman in the video is obscured.
Hammer’s apology came after an Instagram post by Miss Cayman Islands Universe Committee Chairman Derri Dacres-Lee, who said his members were “aware of a video allegedly posted by Armie Hammer referring to a young woman half-naked as ‘Miss Cayman’ “. Dacres-Lee continued, writing: “The Committee is very disturbed by the video and would like to confirm that the woman is not a Miss from the Cayman Islands and has no affiliation with the Miss Cayman Islands Universe contest.”
Last week, Hammer left the Lionsgate movie Forced marriage where he starred alongside Jennifer Lopez after being involved in a social media scandal due to alleged private messages and videos of him circulating online in which the Rebecca actor shares images of sexual fantasies involving rape and cannibalism. Hammer denied the charges, calling them “spurious and violent online attacks”.