Carrot Top’s Legal Fight Takes Chilling Turn With Newly Obtained Video

A threatening video allegedly sent to Carrot Top’s former legal team has emerged amid accusations that Brian Evans attempted to pressure him. The Carrot Top’s Legal Fight Takes Chilling Turn With Newly Obtained Video first appeared on The Blast

A threatening video allegedly sent to Carrot Top’s former legal team has emerged amid accusations that singer Brian Evans attempted to pressure the comedian into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars. The approximately 90-second recording was reportedly sent in May 2024, more than two years before Carrot Top, whose real name is Scott Thompson, was hospitalized following a reported suicide attempt on September 18.

Although Thompson’s attorneys have connected the video to a broader pattern of alleged threats and settlement demands, the clip does not contain a specific demand for money. Evans has denied trying to trade his silence for payment, and the allegations have not resulted in a criminal finding against him.

Brian Evans Allegedly Warned Carrot Top’s Legal Team

According to Page Six, Evans sent the video message to Thompson’s then-legal team in May 2024. “At some point, things are no longer about settling, okay?” Evans said in the recording obtained by the outlet.

Evans, who opened for Carrot Top’s long-running Luxor show in Las Vegas twice more than a decade ago, referenced another legal fight that he said lasted 12 years. “I know how to file, and I know how to respond, and I especially know how to promote,” he said.

Evans then appeared to place responsibility for what happened next on Thompson and his representatives. “So this is all up to you, all of you,” he continued. “You’re on the wrong side of this. … But if this is the way you want it, this is the way it’ll be.”

While the language was ominous, the video did not include a demand for money or expressly threaten the release of private material. Thompson’s attorneys have argued that its significance becomes clearer when considered alongside later emails, court filings and a police report.

Attorney Accused Singer Of Seeking $500,000

Page Six also obtained a September 3 report from the Lake Mary Police Department documenting an allegation made by Thompson’s attorney, Ronnie Bitman. Bitman reportedly told police that Evans claimed to possess a USB containing “sensitive contents of an explicit video about the client.”

According to the report, Evans allegedly demanded $500,000 and threatened to send the material to tabloids if Thompson refused to pay. The complaint was categorized as “information only, extortion of client.”

Thompson was not present when Bitman spoke with authorities and lived outside the department’s jurisdiction. The officer reportedly advised Bitman that the comedian would need to contact the law enforcement agency where he resides.

No criminal finding against Evans resulted from the Lake Mary report.

Thompson’s attorneys made similar allegations in a September 3 Broward County court filing. They claimed Evans demanded “significant sums” while warning that an alleged sexually explicit recording involving the comedian could be placed in a public court file.

Once filed publicly, Thompson’s team argued, the material could become available to reporters and other members of the public.

• Carrot Top reportedly suffered a suspected prescription drug overdose before being hospitalized.
• He is reportedly awake and breathing on his own, although he remains hospitalized under medical care.

Emails Included Demands As High As $8 Million

One email attached to the court filing reportedly presented Thompson with what Evans called “Path A.” Under that option, Thompson would pay $500,000 in immediately available funds, and Evans would resolve his claims against him. If Thompson rejected the offer, Evans said he planned to proceed with a motion involving a purported USB. He predicted that the filing would attract media attention.

Evans maintained in the same communication that he was not threatening the comedian or attempting to “trade silence for money.” However, he warned that after the deadline passed, the proposed settlement was “not an offer your client will ever see again, not even remotely close.”

Other emails reportedly show that the requested amounts changed dramatically throughout the dispute. In a May 18, 2024 message, Evans demanded $1.925 million and said that if the parties did not settle, he would file a lawsuit with exhibits “including the video.” He added that the fallout could bring “consequences I can not control.”

One week later, Evans reportedly increased the demand to $8 million and wrote that when his lawsuit was filed, “I will be issuing a press release within the hour it is filed.”

By June 4, the requested amount had dropped to $530,000. Evans allegedly acknowledged that the dispute “would be national news” and warned that without an agreement, “it will be filed, a press release will be issued.”

Brian Evans Denied Extorting The Comedian

Evans has denied threatening to publish footage in exchange for money. He previously told Page Six that he “never threatened, ever, to post any video anywhere in exchange for a settlement.”

The singer also claimed the purported footage had been deleted long ago as part of a previous settlement between himself and Thompson.

The current dispute traces back to that 2024 agreement, which Evans is attempting to overturn. Evans sued Thompson in Broward County in August, seeking to void the settlement. He alleged that he lacked the mental capacity to enter the agreement because of psychiatric injuries he said he experienced after the 2023 Maui wildfires.

His lawsuit also alleged that Thompson previously sent him unsolicited footage showing an explicit sex act. That accusation has not been proven in court.

Thompson’s attorneys have asked the court to impose restrictions on Evans’ future filings. Their requested measures include requiring judicial approval before he can publicly submit material involving alleged private or sexual conduct and potentially limiting his ability to electronically file documents without oversight.

Carrot Top’s Hospitalization Made The Court Fight More Urgent

The dispute took on greater urgency after Thompson’s attorneys informed the judge that the comedian had been hospitalized following a September 18 suicide attempt. “This is now an emergency in the most human sense,” Bitman wrote in a September 20 emergency motion.

The attorney argued that once intensely personal allegations are entered into a public court record, they could spread nationally before Thompson has any meaningful opportunity to respond. He further maintained that the resulting damage could not be reversed.

There has been no judicial determination that Evans’ alleged conduct caused or contributed to Thompson’s reported suicide attempt.

Evans has previously faced restrictions over his litigation activity. A federal judge in South Florida declared him a “vexatious litigant” in August after finding that he had filed at least 15 cases without an attorney in the district since 2025. The judge described the matters as “serial, spurious filings,” restricted Evans’ ability to submit new documents without prior approval and dismissed the case at issue with prejudice.

A Broward County judge separately found that Evans had misused emergency-motion procedures. The court granted Thompson’s requested relief concerning certain references to unrelated videos, messages, and other material after Evans agreed to those restrictions during a hearing.

Thompson’s representative previously confirmed that the comedian was hospitalized and recovering while asking the public to respect his privacy. The civil dispute with Evans, including the fight over future filings and allegedly private material, remains ongoing.

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