Entertainment & Arts
Michael A.
Nov. 8, 1991
The late industrialist Armand Hammer engaged in a longtime extramarital affair with the woman who is now chief fund-raiser at the Westwood museum that bears his name, according to newly filed documents in a bitter lawsuit over legal title to Hammer’s art collection.
Jan. 19, 1991
The sole heir of the late wife of Occidental Petroleum Corp.
July 12, 1990
California
Multimillionaire oilman Armand Hammer will remain executor of his brother’s $1.5-million estate despite a challenge from a relative, a judge ruled Wednesday.
May 1, 1986
Less than two months after the death of Armand Hammer and less than two weeks after the closing of the first exhibition at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center in Westwood, the museum is mired in uncertainty--over its direction and even its next show.
Jan. 25, 1991
I write this letter as counsel to the Board of Directors of Occidental Petroleum Corp. in response to “Occidental, Not Hammer’s Foundation, Purchased Art” (Part I, Aug. 18).
Sept. 3, 1989
Victor J.
July 24, 1985
Inheritance: Niece of the oil executive’s wife seeks to overturn ruling that denied her claim to at least $57 million.
Sept. 26, 1998
Oilman Armand Hammer’s wife was coerced into leaving her niece hundreds of millions of dollars in communal property in a rewritten will, a judge has ruled.
Dec. 14, 1994
Hammer to Hammer Post: The grandson of the late industrialist Armand Hammer was elected chairman of the board of Westwood’s troubled Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center.
Feb. 14, 1991