According to a 1991 lawsuit, Jon Hamm, then known as college student, Jonathan Hamm, was convicted for a violent fraternity hazing that included setting a pledge on fire.

The suit surfaced this week and depicts the Mad Men star as a crazed Sigma Nu frat member who participated in a violent college hazing incident that took place in November 1990 at the University of Texas-Austin.

The suit claimed that Hamm became “mad, I mean really mad,” when the new pledge, identified in the papers as Mark Allen Sanders, could not recite things he was supposed to memorize. Continue reading →