Jon Hamm in Mad Men (Picure: AMC)

Mad Men’s Jon Hamm once allegedly took part in an extreme initiation ceremony which included leading a pledge around a room by his genitals with a claw hammer.

Court records have shown that the bizarre ceremony, which is also called hazing, took place while the star was at the University of Texas in the early nineties but when the lawsuit was filed Hamm wasn’t famous.

Records reveal that Hamm, now 44, was charged with hazing and received deferred adjudication, which means he was put on probation but never convicted. The case was dismissed in 1993.

Jon Hamm playing football as a youngster


Star Magazine reported that Hamm allegedly picked the victim up by his underwear and ‘pulled it back and forth in a sawing motion,’ causing ‘great pain.’



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Don Draper (Jon Hamm) with his beautiful wife Betty (January Jones).

The documents state that Hamm even set the pledge’s pants on fire and that he ‘would not let [him] extinguish the flame with his hand but made [him] blow it out.’

Apparently, the actor became ‘really mad’ after the 20-year-old ‘pledge’ failed to recite things he was supposed to memorise about the members of the Sigma Nu fraternity.

‘He rears back and hits me left-handed, and he hit me right over my right kidney, I mean square over it,’ Mark Allen Sanders was quoted as saying in the papers.

University records show that Hamm joined in 1989 and that the Sigma Nu chapter was eventually shut down.

A friend of the actor told the magazine the incident was a one off.

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