Carrot Top Accuser Takes Allegations to Florida Police as Comedian Returns to Las Vegas Stage

A Florida man who accuses comedian Scott “Carrot Top” Thompson of sexually assaulting him in 2021 has taken his allegations to police in Winter Park, Florida, and spent about five hours with detectives, according to reports in Radar Online. Police told the outlet the matter is under investigation. Thompson has not been charged with any crime.

The accuser, Zachary DeFazio, 25, first made his allegations in a Sept. 14 declaration filed in Broward County. The declaration was filed in a lawsuit brought against Thompson by Brian Evans, a singer and former opening act. In it, DeFazio claims Thompson contacted him on the dating app Grindr in March 2021, plied him with alcohol on his boats, in bars and at his Winter Park home, and engaged in sexual conduct with him on Oct. 8, 2021, when DeFazio was too drunk to consent, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. DeFazio was 19 at the time. Thompson was 56.

In the police report, as described by Radar, DeFazio also refers to a video that he says was recorded on Thompson’s phone on April 12, 2021, while the two were together. He asks police to have Thompson delete it if he still has it. Thompson’s representative declined to comment to Radar. None of the allegations have been proven in court.

The case has unfolded alongside a separate fight between Thompson and Evans. Evans, who is representing himself, alleges in his suit that Thompson sent him an unsolicited sexually explicit video in 2022 or 2023. He is asking the court to void a settlement the two signed, arguing he lacked the mental capacity to agree to it. Thompson’s attorney, Ronnie Bitman, has told the court that his client is the victim of extortion by Evans. In a Sept. 3 filing he cited an email in which Evans raised the possibility of lodging the video with the court and suggested the case could be resolved for $500,000, the Review-Journal reported. Evans called the extortion claim “completely ridiculous.” In August, a federal judge in Florida declared Evans a vexatious litigant after finding that he had filed 15 apparently frivolous cases since 2025.

DeFazio’s own lawyers had proposed a $7.5 million confidential settlement in a 2025 letter to Thompson that included no admission of liability, according to the Review-Journal. OK! has separately reported on a $250,000 settlement document that denies wrongdoing, but said it could not confirm the agreement was ever executed.

Thompson, 61, was hospitalized in September after police were called to his Las Vegas home on Sept. 18 for what TMZ described as a suicide attempt. His spokesperson confirmed the hospitalization but did not disclose its cause. His shows were canceled while he recovered. A press release announced his return to his residency at the Luxor on Oct. 19, and he thanked fans on social media for their “outpouring of love, support, prayers, and well wishes.”

Groubert ran two short items on the case. He read from DeFazio’s account and questioned parts of it, including how the two came to meet on Grindr and DeFazio’s description of being plied with alcohol.

Groubert repeated a view he has offered before: that the case may be bordering on extortion, and that there is a thin line between paying off someone who is threatening you and being extorted. He went further after reading about DeFazio’s interview with detectives, telling viewers he believed the case would end with DeFazio being charged with extortion. No such charge has been reported, and police have said only that the matter is under investigation. Thompson’s extortion claim in court is directed at Evans, not DeFazio.

Groubert said he understood Thompson had already agreed to a $250,000 payout and that the accuser had come back for more. Then he qualified it. “The whole thing about the payout is very confusing,” he said. He also said he believed Thompson had gone back to work at the Luxor, which is consistent with the announced Oct. 19 return.

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