The singer accused of extorting Carrot Top sent the Luxor headliner’s former legal team a video in May 2024 warning that their legal squabble was “no longer about settling.” The clip does not threaten to release a sex tape and Brian Evans doesn’t demand money in exchange for not releasing it.

The 90-second clip—published on Thursday (Sept. 24) by Page Six —has become the latest exhibit in a Florida court fight that lawyers for Carrot Top (real name: Scott Thompson) say has dogged him for years.

“At some point, things are no longer about settling, okay?” Evans says on the recording. In the video, Evans—who opened two shows for Carrot Top, one in 2014 and one in 2015—boasts of a different case he says he spent 12 years fighting. “I know how to file, and I know how to respond, and I especially know how to promote,” he says. “So this is all up to you, all of you. You’re on the wrong side of this… But if this is the way you want it, this is the way it’ll be.”

Thompson’s lawyers say the tape matters because of later emails, a Broward County filing, and a police report.

That report, dated Sept. 3, 2026, comes from Florida’s Lake Mary Police Department. Thompson attorney Ronnie Bitman told officers that Evans claimed to hold a USB with “sensitive contents of an explicit video about the client,” wanted $500,000, and said he would send the file to the tabloids if Thompson refused.

Police logged it as “information only—extortion of client.” Thompson was not present and lives outside the city’s jurisdiction. The officer said the comedian would have to call police where he lives.

The report produced no criminal charge or finding against Evans.

The same day, Bitman put a similar claim in a Broward filing: Evans was demanding “significant sums” and warning that an alleged sexually explicit recording could be placed in a public court file, where reporters could copy it. Those claims remain allegations.