Courtney Vucekovich, a Dallas-based app founder, said she met Hammer in June through mutual friends, and from the beginning he was 'intoxicating'.
'He's a very charming, intense human being. But once you start talking to him, he's pretty aggressive right from the start. Not violent, but just sexually aggressive in the way he speaks,' she said.
'He's magnetic, but that has helped him get away with this stuff. He's a very charming, larger-than-life personality. He's very affectionate, he makes you feel very safe and kind of on top of the world. Then little by little it gets deeper and darker.
'He kind of gets obsessed with you. At first you feel really safe, and then it gets a little strange. And then it gets more and more, and little by little you're like 'what's happened?'