“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm was charged with hazing in a violent incident that led to the permanent dissolution of a fraternity at the University of Texas while he was in school there more than two decades ago.
According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Hamm was accused in 1991 of punching and paddling pledge Mark Allen Sanders and setting the young man’s pants on fire as part of an initiation ritual at Sigma Nu fraternity.
The then 20-year-old Sanders filed a lawsuit against members of the fraternity that led to criminal charges against Hamm and four other Sigma Nu brothers. The AP reports Hamm received deferred adjudication for his hazing charge, which meant he completed probation, but was not formally convicted. A separate assault charge was dropped.
Sanders’ lawsuit was ultimately dismissed in 1993, but not before UT’s Sigma Nu chapter permanently disbanded.
Representatives for Hamm and AMC did not immediately return TheWrap‘s requests for comment.