Tag archives: Armie Hammer

Michael Hammer Remembered
By Richard Mineards   |   December 6, 2022

On a personal note, I remember inveterate Montecito car and art collector Michael Hammer, who has died at the age of 67 after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. Michael, the son of Julian Armand Hammer and grandson of Occidental Petroleum industrialist Armand Hammer, was also a generous philanthropist, donating millions of dollars to local […]

Armie’s Back
By Richard Mineards   |   April 16, 2020

Montecito art and car collector Michael Hammer‘s actor son, Armie, 33, is reprising his role in the sequel to the hit film Call Me By Your Name with Oscar nominated Timothee Chalamet, 24. Director Luca Guadagnino, 48, who helmed the original 2017 drama, says both lead actors are keen to reprise their roles in the […]

Making Scents
By Richard Mineards   |   January 2, 2019

Santa Barbara Polo Club player and Ralph Lauren Polo model Nacho Figueras has praised his good friend Prince Harry for his “realness” and says Queen Elizabeth‘s 35-year-old grandson is “serious about improving life for kids” who’ve not had the same advantages in life. Argentinian Nacho, 42, tells Town & Country magazine: “What I like most […]

Hands up: Jimenez is All Ears
By Richard Mineards   |   November 8, 2018

City College student Timothy Jimenez is displaying all the signs of success! The 20-year-old former Carpinteria High School student, who lives on the Mesa, has signed up for a four-year course to learn sign language, spurred on by his friendship with deaf football teammate Guillermo Tavira. “I really wanted to communicate with him and really […]

Ray of Light
By Richard Mineards   |   November 30, 2017

Hospice of Santa Barbara couldn’t have had a nicer evening when its hosted its annual Shining Light Society sunset soirée at SB Maritime Museum for VIP donors. District attorney Joyce Dudley joined the more than 70 guests quaffing the wine and snaffling the comestibles, including Gerd Jordano, Hiroko Benko, Chris Davis, Roger and Robin Himowitz, […]