I missed it when it was filed in September, and just heard about it because of a procedural development:
ROVIER CARRINGTON was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday with perjury…. "As alleged, Rovier Carrington faked evidence to support a $50 million lawsuit in the Southern District of New York making extremely serious allegations, and then lied about faking that evidence under penalty of perjury. Now he will return to the Southern District of New York—this time to face criminal charges."
According to the allegations contained in the Complaint …:
Between at least June 2018 and July 2018, CARRINGTON committed perjury in connection with a civil lawsuit (the "Civil Case") filed in the Southern District of New York. In the Civil Case, CARRINGTON sued Hollywood executives alleging that the executives had sexually assaulted him, and that they had defrauded him in connection with a decision to refuse to produce CARRINGTON's reality television program. CARRINGTON sought damages of $50 million in the Civil Case.
In support of his allegations in the Civil Case, CARRINGTON included as exhibits to an amended complaint ten email chains that included the following purported exchanges:
