“Made You Look” follows how a mysterious Long Island woman named Glafir Rosales sold a stream of forged paintings to the gallery’s unwitting director, Ann Freedman, beginning in 1995. Michael became the head of the 165-year-old Knoedler gallery through his family. Former client-turned-plaintiff Eleanore De Sole recalls of the trial: “Michael Hammer walks into the courtroom… he’s got on a velvet royal blue jacket, tan pants, a dark, dark tan, and flowing whitish gold hair. With a deep tan, unruly long hair and tattoos, posing in front of luxury cars or at high-flying events, he certainly looks like a character any older A-list actor would relish playing. Michael, 65, doesn’t participate in the doc on camera, but he appears in archival photos. It not only features Michael - an heir to the vast Armand Hammer fortune - but some of high society’s most prominent figures who were allegedly duped into buying forged art from his gallery, including former Gucci and Sotheby’s boss Domenico De Sole and hedge fund manager Pierre Lagrange. Armie Hammer Getty Images for the Academy OfĪ new film on the case by director Barry Avrich is now the talk of art insiders, socialites and Wall Street collectors. While the scandal has sidelined Armie, another one could push his dad to the limelight. But he has been dropped from his Hollywood agency as well as numerous high-profile projects. Meantime, Michael’s movie star son, Armie, has been embroiled in an off-screen scandal over his sex life that’s included alleged cannibal fantasies and abuse. Michael and the gallery were never criminally charged, or found liable. The scandal rocked the art world - and a New York federal courtroom five years later. The works were made in a Queens garage by a master forger and math professor. Michael was the owner of venerable art gallery Knoedler, which closed abruptly in 2011 after being accused of selling $80 million in fake paintings by artists including Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. And sources exclusively tell Page Six that Hollywood studios are circling to make the doc into a feature film. Michael Hammer is a central character in Netflix’s buzzy new documentary “Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art” for his alleged (and unwanted) role in one of the art world’s biggest scandals. Armie Hammer resurfaces in LA after returning with Elizabeth Chambers, kidsĪrmie Hammer’s film career is crashing amid sexual assault allegations, but his wealthy father could be coming to the big screen.
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