AUSTIN, Texas, April 10 (UPI) — Long before he was Don Draper on TV’s critically lauded Mad Men, actor Jon Hamm was allegedly getting into trouble with a fraternity initiation hazing incident at the University of Texas in the early 1990s.
Hamm, 44, was then a 19-year-old student at the Austin, Texas campus and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. In November 1990, an archived news report by the San Antonio Light said, Hamm and three other members of the fraternity were accused of hazing.
The Sigma Nu fraternity was subsequently banned from the University of Texas-Austin campus. Three other fraternities also found themselves in trouble over unrelated hazing incidents around that time.
“I believe this will bring to a close a very troublesome chapter in the history of fraternities at the University of Texas, ” Travis County, Texas, Attorney Ken Oden said in the Light report, which was dated July 10, 1991.
Hamm was among four students charged with multiple counts of hazing. An arrest warrant was issued in August 1993 and Hamm received probation in a deal cut two years later, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Travis County, Texas Attorney Ken Oden said in the 1991 Light report that he would seek harsher punishments for Hamm and three others, calling them the “most serious offenders.”
“I dropped out of school, moved into the basement of my older half-sister Julie’s house, enrolled in a local college and sank into depression,” Hamm recalled in a 2012 story published by Britain’s Daily Mail. The actor’s father died in 1991.
The Daily Mail reported Thursday that Hamm was ultimately charged with assault in connection to the 1990 hazing incidents, which was later dismissed. The Mail report also detailed some of the allegations against Hamm — such as setting fire to a pledge’s pants — that were reportedly outlined in court documents.
Star Magazine also outlined allegations against the young Hamm.
Hamm, the star of AMC’s Mad Men and a handful of films like last year’s Million Dollar Arm, has received a bit of press recently — covering the concluding final season of Mad Men, and his recent disclosure of a 30-day treatment for alcoholism.
Mad Men’s series finale is set to air May 17.
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