Jon Hamm’s latest project has been released today amid controversy over resurfaced allegations about his college hazing past.

The actor is playing Detective Jack Bergin in ‘The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery,’ an audio drama from Audible Originals.

The four episode series is a dramatization of the Chavez Ravine evictions which took place when the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles in the late 1950s.

The move displaced generations of Mexican-Americans who were forced out of their homes to make way for the Dodgers’ Stadium.

Hamm told CNN it is important to learn from this dark chapter of LA’s past, as he took aim at Elon Musk for not using his massive wealth to tackle inequality. 

But the Mad Men star has been less forthcoming about his own dark past and on Wednesday snapped at the Daily Mail for confronting him about his time as a sadistic college bully. 

Hamm was identified as one of seven upper classmen who tortured pledge Mark Sanders during an initiation for the Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Texas Austin.

The ordeal left Sanders with a broken spine and kidney damage as part of a brutal initiation ordeal.

Hamm previously addressed the reports in 2018, telling Esquire magazine the incident had been ‘sensationalized’.

Jon Hamm’s latest project has been released today amid controversy over resurfaced allegations about his college hazing past. Pictured: Hamm in New York City on Wednesday 

The Mad Men star was accused of beating a pledge for Sigma Nu at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990

On Wednesday he told a reporter he was ‘offended’ to have been asked about the scandal when contacted, then haughtily declared that his publicists deal with such matters. 

Hamm’s latest project is a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Chavez Ravine evictions.

‘To ignore it is to pretend that it never happened and to pretend it never happened means you don’t learn from it, and if you don’t learn from it, you’re going to do it again,’ Hamm told CNN.

He pointed out that a stark divide remains between the ‘haves and have nots’.

‘If Elon Musk would take – and again, this is not this not something he needs to do – but if he would take a chainsaw to his own sort of personal wealth and spread it around, he could build 30 schools in each of the 50 states, and he could be the new Andrew Carnegie,’ Hamm said. 

‘But he doesn’t want to do that and that’s an interesting choice on his end.’

Hamm’s latest role is not the first time he has dipped his toe into the world of voiceover and follows credits on ‘The Big Lie’ series, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and ‘Big Mouth.

‘I really like doing it,’ Hamm said. ‘I think it’s a fun and creative way to kind of engage in storytelling and I think (‘The Big Fix’) is part of that.’ 

Hazing victim Mark Sanders was hit so hard during the warped 1990 initiation that he suffered a fractured spine and nearly lost a kidney

Hamm has never flat out denied the hazing scandal but insists things were taken out of context

The Audible series is described as a ‘gritty and winding tale’ which also features Erin Moriarty, Omar Epps, and Alia Shawkat.

The premise of the show sees Hamm’s character investigate a brutal murder at the request of an old flam and uncovers a deadly conspiracy to forcefully evict a Mexican-American community in the process.

His hazing scandal was dredged up by DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan on her new podcast The Nerve, which is part of Megyn Kelly’s new MK Media venture. 

Callahan said she’d been shocked to see Hamm receive plaudits for his Apple TV+ show Your Friends & Neighbors and land plum spots on SNL and Jimmy Fallon. 

She said that in her opinion, Hamm is ‘worse than Harvey Weinstein.’ 

Callahan detailed the hazing incident Hamm was involved in and said it was shocking he’d escaped unscathed while the likes of Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin had seen their careers destroyed by scandals. 

She said Hamm was ‘self impressed’, only played a ‘douche’ and that his rage was ‘barely-concealed’ on screen.

Allegations of the hazing first resurfaced in 2015, just as the final season of Mad Men was airing. 

Sanders (pictured in 2015) subsequently withdrew from the university and sought counselling to cope with the shameful episode which resulted in a police inquiry and the fraternity chapter being disbanded.

Hamm pictured with his wife Anna Osceola, who he met while filming Mad Men

At the time, a ‘source’ close to Hamm told Star magazine that the hazing horror was ‘an isolated incident in Jon’s life.’

‘Since then, he’s been strong enough to take steps to make him a better person,’ the source added. 

But there was no sign of any introspection when Hamm was asked about the incident by Esquire magazine in a 2018 interview. 

Journalist Maximillian Potter said Hamm’s tone became ‘tinged with anger’ when the subject was broached, with the actor snapping: ‘I hope I didn’t sign up for a hit piece.’

When Potter pushed further for a response, he said Hamm ‘bristled’ before unleashing a stream of self-serving invective.

‘I wouldn’t say it’s accurate,’ Hamm began. ‘Everything about that is sensationalized. I was accused of these things I don’t… It’s so hard to get into it. 

‘I don’t want to give it any more breath. It was a bummer of a thing that happened. I was essentially acquitted. 

‘I wasn’t convicted of anything. I was caught up in a big situation, a stupid kid in a stupid situation, and it’s a f**king bummer. I moved on from it.’

The scandal was then largely forgotten, with Hamm going on to land plum parts in prestige movies and TV shows including Top Gun: Maverick and The Morning Show.

DailyMail.com has contacted Hamm’s reps for comment.