Carrot Top’s 911 Call Lands While Luxor Lists Oct. 19

A Las Vegas 911 call captured Carrot Top barely breathing after a Sept. 18 suicide attempt. The woman who found him said he was passing out in the rocks by his pool, and she kept telling him to stay awake.

Audio from that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police call went public on Wednesday, Sept. 23, while Scott Thompson, 61, was still under medical care. Ticket pages already list him back at Luxor on Oct. 19, and a Florida court fight over a $500,000 demand was already in the file.

The Caller Found Him in the Rocks by the Pool

The caller said a staffer had asked her to check on Thompson at his Las Vegas home. She told the operator he had been “trying to commit suicide,” and that he was “barely” breathing when she reached him by the pool.

Thompson, the Florida-born prop comic who headlines as Carrot Top, was on his back in the backyard rock bed. The operator walked her through a rescue that never became a full CPR cycle on the recording, because they were watching his chest to see if it still moved.

WHAT THE OPERATOR TOLD HER TO DO

• Airway first: Lay him flat on his back, tilt his head, and check whether he was breathing.
• Watch the chest: Stay on the line and track chest movement before starting CPR.
• If he vomits: Roll him onto his side and clear his mouth and nose.
• Open the house: Unlock the door once sirens were close so crews could walk straight in.

She said she could already hear the ambulance. Paramedics took him to a nearby hospital. Anyone in the same kind of crisis can call, text, or chat 988 and reach a trained counselor without waiting for a squad car.

His rep, Jami Schlicher, said Friday night that he was recovering and asked for privacy. On Sunday, Sept. 20, she said he remained in the hospital “under close medical care.”

He is now awake, breathing on his own and continuing to improve, surrounded by his family and those closest to him.

Jami Schlicher, representative for Scott Thompson, Sept. 20 statement

The tape does not name a drug. It does name a private backyard, a staffer who could not be there, and a friend who had to be talked through keeping a headliner alive until the sirens got loud.

Path A Was $500,000 or a USB Motion

Two weeks before the 911 call, Thompson’s lawyer put a stack of emails in a Broward County file and labeled them extortion. Ronnie Bitman, the attorney, filed the papers on Sept. 3 as a non-party notice in Evans v. Creative Artists Agency, LLC and Steve Levine, case CACE26012570.

Brian Evans, a singer who once opened for Thompson in Vegas, had been suing him and trying to unwind an earlier settlement. In the Sept. 3 email Bitman filed, Evans said he needed to put “the video already described in the operative complaint” before the court, and that the vehicle for that was a motion for leave to lodge a USB exhibit. “I would prefer not to add that filing if the claims against Mr. Thompson can be resolved,” Evans wrote.

The same message laid out what he called Path A: $500,000 “in immediately available funds” to resolve all claims against Thompson. If that did not happen, he said, he would “proceed with the motion for leave as the next filing.” He also wrote that press coverage of a public docket was “a foreseeable fact,” and that “it is not a threat.”

Bitman told the court the opposite.

This is not settlement communication. On its face it is a malicious threat to expose Thompson to disgrace and to expose a secret affecting him, with intent thereby to extort money under the guise of litigation, conduct prohibited by Florida and federal law.

Ronnie Bitman, attorney for Scott Thompson, Sept. 3 Broward County filing

Bitman said the USB does not exist. Evans said the recording “was deleted a long time ago in accordance with the prior settlement,” and that he “never threatened to post any video anywhere in exchange for a settlement.” He called the extortion claim “completely ridiculous” and “totally not true.”

That same day, Bitman took the accusation to the Lake Mary Police Department in Florida. The Sept. 3 police report says the officer told him Thompson would have to contact law enforcement where he actually lives, because he was not in that city and the case sat outside the department’s reach. No criminal extortion charge is in the public record that followed.

Evans had already sued Bitman and another lawyer on Sept. 7 over how those emails were described. The civil fight had more than one docket, and each new paper was written with reporters in mind.

Judge Leibowitz Already Branded Evans a Vexatious Litigant

Thompson’s camp is not asking a new court to invent Evans’s filing history. In August, Florida U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz dismissed a separate suit, Evans v. Fitzgerald, No. 1:26-cv-20342, with prejudice, barred Evans from filing in the Southern District of Florida without prior leave, and called him a vexatious litigant.

“His serial, spurious filings have burdened this District for long enough,” Leibowitz wrote, adding that the suit before him appeared “designed to harass Defendants.” The judge said Evans had filed 15 pro se cases in that federal court since 2025, all of them apparently frivolous, and that a run of 11 meritless filings seemed to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Evans says that order is on appeal in the 11th Circuit and does not control Broward. He also says the list mixes duplicates, clerk errors, and cases that were not merits losses. Schlicher pointed to the same order after the hospital stay: a federal court had already used the words “serial” and “spurious.”

A different federal file, the federal case Evans filed on July 8 against Thompson himself, No. 1:2026cv24682, asked a Miami judge to throw out the settlement. Evans said psychiatric illness after the 2023 Maui fires left him unable to contract. Judge Roy K. Altman dismissed that case without prejudice on Aug. 6 after Evans filed a notice of voluntary dismissal. Magistrate Judge Yeney Hernandez had already denied him a volunteer lawyer and stripped an “emergency” tag off a restraining-order request because the alleged harm was financial.

THE THREE LIVE TRACKS

The federal brand did not stop the state filings. It is the reason Bitman keeps telling Broward that the pattern is already on paper.

What the Emergency Motion Asked the Court to Stop

On Sunday, Sept. 20, two days after the 911 call, Bitman asked Broward Circuit Judge Shari Africk Olefson for “immediate gatekeeping procedures before Plaintiff’s next filing causes additional, irreparable harm.” He wanted Evans blocked from filing alleged sexual material about Thompson without permission, a rule that an attorney or the court sign off on Evans’s papers, and a ban on using inflammatory filings as settlement leverage. He also asked the clerk to cut off unsupervised e-filing.

The motion is the first court paper in which Thompson’s own lawyer wrote down the suicide attempt. “This is now an emergency in the most human sense,” Bitman wrote, the line bolded and underlined. “On September 18, 2026, two days after this Court’s evidentiary hearing, Thompson was hospitalized following a suicide attempt.”

That hearing had been Sept. 16. Olefson ordered, with Evans’s agreement, that some records be kept confidential, and she asked the parties to submit a written order. Bitman said the challenged material stayed public while the paperwork caught up. “A filing can become public in seconds,” he wrote. “A motion to strike or seal necessarily comes later. Once intensely private material is copied, reported or republished, a later order cannot restore privacy.”

Evans answered Monday, Sept. 21, that there was no real emergency. “The September 20 Motion contains no sworn medical affidavit, no hospital record, no doctor’s note, no police report, and no sworn declaration from any person with personal knowledge of the reported September 18 event,” he wrote. He also said he was “sorry that Scott apparently did something to hurt himself,” and that “it’s not my fault that Scott did what he did.”

Four days before the attempt, on Sept. 14, Evans filed a sworn declaration in the Broward case that he said came from Zachary Defazio, 25. Defazio alleged sexual conduct on Oct. 8, 2021, when he was 19 and Thompson was 56, after drinking Thompson supplied. Winter Park police, in the Florida city named in that paper, said they did not immediately find any report on Thompson or the claim. The allegations are unproven. There is no public criminal case attached to them.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The 911 night: Thompson was found barely breathing by his pool on Friday, Sept. 18, and taken to a hospital.
• The Sunday update: Schlicher said he was awake, breathing on his own, and still under close medical care.
• The money demand: Evans’s Sept. 3 email set Path A at $500,000 or a motion to lodge a USB exhibit.
• The federal brand: Judge Leibowitz declared Evans a vexatious litigant on Aug. 3 and dismissed that suit with prejudice.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• A crime: No court has found that Evans committed extortion, and Lake Mary did not open a local case.
• The USB: Bitman says the drive does not exist; Evans says the recording was deleted under the old settlement.
• The Defazio claims: They sit in a civil file. Police in Winter Park found no matching report.
• His present medical file: After the Sunday statement, his reps issued no new official bulletin on where he is being treated.

Bitman told the judge the legal process did not move fast enough to help his client. Evans told the same judge that a hospital headline is not proof. Both men were still filing into a public record while Thompson was in a bed.

Luxor Listed an Oct. 19 Return Before He Confirmed It

Thompson has headlined Luxor since November 2005, a run MGM Resorts has called the longest comedy residency in its history. Friday and Saturday shows came down the afternoon of the 911 call. More dates went dark through the following weekend. An MGM Resorts spokesman said he is “a beloved member of the Luxor and MGM Resorts family,” and that the company was “relieved to hear that he is recovering.”

On Thursday, Sept. 24, a new date appeared. Oct. 19 tickets at the Atrium Showroom are on sale for 8:00 p.m., with more nights stacked through the rest of that month. Guests must be 16 or older. If that Monday holds, he will have missed 31 days of Strip work, more than a month of a job that almost never goes dark except Sundays.

He has not posted the date himself. Schlicher had not issued a fresh medical update as of that Thursday listing. People who have been around him since the hospital stay describe him as joking and eager to get back onstage, which is the version of him Vegas already knew.

That version is why the tape is so hard to hear. The act is loud props and a dyed-red grin. The 911 call is a woman on a patio telling a stranger on a headset that a 61-year-old man in the rocks will not stay awake. Local chatter after the listing treated Oct. 19 as a recovery sign. The listing is a calendar hold. It is not a discharge note.

Seconds to File, Hours to Seal

The second problem, once the ambulance left, is speed. A Broward PDF can hit a public docket before a nurse finishes a chart. Bitman said Evans’s method is to file “malicious information within the court record as a means for press to publicly regurgitate his submissions.” Evans said he is a pro se litigant “with no collectible assets,” so a money judgment against him has “limited practical value,” while “the public record and associated costs continue to expand.”

That is the bind the 911 tape now sits inside. The medical crisis is supposed to be a closed room. The civil fight is built to be copied. Releasing the rescue audio on Sept. 23 put the worst hour of his life on the same clock as the USB motion, the Defazio declaration, and a Luxor ticket page that already wants him funny again on Oct. 19.

NINE DAYS ON TWO CLOCKS

1. Sept. 3, 2026: Bitman files the Path A emails in Broward and walks the same claim into the Lake Mary Police Department.
2. Sept. 14, 2026: The Defazio declaration is filed in the live state case.
3. Sept. 16, 2026: Olefson holds an evidentiary hearing and, with Evans’s agreement, orders some records confidential.
4. Sept. 18, 2026: A 911 caller finds Thompson barely breathing by his pool; Friday and Saturday Luxor shows come down.
5. Sept. 20, 2026: Bitman files the emergency motion naming the suicide attempt; Schlicher says he is awake and breathing on his own.
6. Sept. 21, 2026: Evans files that the motion has no medical proof and is not his fault.
7. Sept. 23, 2026: The Metropolitan Police 911 audio is released.
8. Sept. 24, 2026: Oct. 19, 8:00 p.m., is listed at Luxor and on Ticketmaster.

None of those dates proves why he tried to die. They do show that the private hour on the rocks was not the only system still running. The docket, the tape, and the show calendar all moved while he was still, on the last official word, a patient.

Help is still a three-digit number. The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is built as 24/7 judgment-free crisis support by call, text, or chat, and the Crisis Text Line takes HOME to 741741. Oct. 19 is a Monday on a ticket site. The Broward file is still open. The man in the rocks on Sept. 18 is the one both of those clocks are using for a name.

Disclaimer: This article is news reporting on a public 911 recording, court papers, and a listed concert date. It is informational only and is not medical, mental-health, or legal advice. It does not diagnose Thompson, decide the Broward or federal cases, or tell anyone whether to buy a ticket, file a motion, or seek care. Readers who are in crisis, or who are worried about someone else, should contact a qualified crisis counselor or physician, and anyone with a legal question about these filings should consult a licensed attorney in the relevant state. Details of his condition, show dates, and court orders reflect the statements and records described above and can change.