Man Who Sued Paramount CEO for Assault Charged With Perjury (2)

A California man was arrested and charged with faking and destroying evidence and lying in his $50 million lawsuit that accused late Paramount Pictures Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brad Grey and former MTV head Brian Graden of sexual assault.

Rovier Carrington, 32, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of perjury, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement Wednesday. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison.

Carrington filed the suit in New York in 2018, claiming the two men had sexually exploited and then defrauded him ...