“At some point, things are no longer about settling, okay?” musician Brian Evans said in the roughly 90-second clip obtained by Page Six, which was sent to Carrot Top, whose real name is Scott Thompson.
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name → settle → Top
Evans, who twice opened for Carrot Top’s long-running show at the Luxor in Las Vegas more than a decade ago, boasts in the video that he had spent 12 years fighting another legal battle and knew how to go the distance.
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he → open → distance
“I know how to file, and I know how to respond, and I especially know how to promote,” Evans said.
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Evans → know → ?
“So this is all up to you, all of you,” he continued.
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he → continue → you
“You’re on the wrong side of this.
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You → ’re → this
But if this is the way you want it, this is the way it’ll be.”
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it → want → it
The video does not include a specific demand for money.
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video → include → money
But it takes on new significance alongside a trove of court papers and a previously unreported police report that accuse Evans of repeatedly seeking hefty payouts while allegedly threatening to drag private and salacious material about the 61-year-old comedian into the public eye.
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that → take → eye
Page Six has exclusively obtained a Sept. 3 Lake Mary Police Department report showing that Carrot Top’s attorney, Ronnie Bitman, went to cops and accused Evans of trying to extort his famous client.
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attorney → obtain → client
Bitman allegedly told police that Evans claimed to have a USB containing “sensitive contents of an explicit video about the client” and demanded $500,000, threatening to send the material to tabloids if Thompson did not pay, according to the report.
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Thompson → tell → report
The complaint was logged as “information only — extortion of client.”
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complaint → log → client
Because Thompson was not there and lived outside Lake Mary’s jurisdiction, the officer told Bitman that the comedian would have to contact law enforcement where he resides, according to the report.
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The alleged shakedown had already spilled into a Broward County courtroom.
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shakedown → allege → courtroom
In a Sept. 3 filing, Thompson’s legal team accused Evans of demanding “significant sums” while threatening that a purported sexually explicit recording of the comedian would wind up in the public court file, where reporters and others could obtain it.
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reporters → accuse → it
Those claims remain allegations and have not resulted in a criminal finding against Evans.
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claims → remain → Evans
One email attached to the court papers shows Evans offering what he dubbed “Path A”: Thompson would pay $500,000 in immediately available funds and, in exchange, Evans would resolve his claims against the comedian.
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Evans → attach → comedian
If Thompson did not accept, Evans wrote, he planned to proceed with a motion concerning a purported USB that he predicted would draw press attention.
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he → accept → attention
Evans insisted in the same message that he was not threatening Thompson and was not attempting to “trade silence for money.”
But he also warned that if his deadline passed, the half-million-dollar deal was “not an offer your client will ever see again — not even remotely close.”
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client → insist → money
Evans previously told Page Six that he “never threatened — ever — to post any video anywhere in exchange for a settlement,” and said the purported footage had been deleted long ago as part of an earlier settlement.
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footage → tell → settlement
The dispute dates back to a 2024 settlement between Evans and Thompson that the singer is now trying to unwind.
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singer → date → that
Evans sued the comedian in Broward County in August, seeking to void that agreement and alleging that he lacked the mental capacity to enter it because of psychiatric injuries he says he suffered in the aftermath of the 2023 Maui wildfires.
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he → sue → wildfires
In his lawsuit, Evans also alleged that Thompson had previously sent him unsolicited footage depicting an explicit sex act — an accusation that has not been proven in court.
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that → allege → court
The legal warfare became even more fraught after Thompson’s attorneys told a judge that the comic was hospitalized following a Sept. 18 suicide attempt.
“This is now an emergency in the most human sense,” Bitman wrote in a Sept. 20 emergency motion seeking to rein in Evans’ future filings.
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Bitman → become → filings
The lawyer argued that intensely private allegations could become national news almost instantly once placed on a public court docket and that the damage could not be undone afterward.
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damage → argue → docket
According to emails attached to Thompson’s emergency court filing, Evans repeatedly paired multimillion-dollar settlement demands with warnings that lawsuits, alleged video evidence and press coverage would follow if the disputes were not resolved.
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disputes → accord → warnings
In a May 18, 2024 email, Evans demanded $1.925 million and wrote that if the matter was not settled he would file suit with exhibits “including the video,” adding that the fallout could bring “consequences I can not control.
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I → demand → consequences
A week later, Evans raised his demand to $8 million and wrote that, upon filing his complaint, “I will be issuing a press release within the hour it is filed.”
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it → raise → hour
By June 4, he had lowered the demand to $530,000, while acknowledging that the dispute “would be national news” and warning that if no deal was reached, “it will be filed, a press release will be issued.”
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release → lower → 530,000
Thompson’s team asked the judge to impose gatekeeping restrictions on Evans, including requiring court approval before he could publicly file material concerning alleged private or sexual conduct and potentially stripping him of his ability to e-file documents without oversight.
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Evans has already drawn sharp rebukes from judges over his prolific court activity.
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A federal judge in South Florida declared him a “vexatious litigant” in August, writing that Evans had filed at least 15 pro se cases in the district since 2025 and that his “serial, spurious filings” had burdened the court.
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filings → declare → court
The judge restricted Evans’ ability to file new documents without prior approval and dismissed the case before him with prejudice.
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judge → restrict → prejudice
A Broward County judge separately ruled this month that Evans had abused emergency-motion procedures and granted Thompson’s request concerning certain references to unrelated videos, text messages and other material after Evans agreed to the relief in court.
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Evans → rule → court
Page Six previously reported that Thompson’s representative confirmed he was hospitalized and recovering after reports of the suicide attempt, while asking that his privacy be respected.
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privacy → report → attempt
Page Six has sought comment from Thompson and Evans.
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