EXCLUSIVE A lurid lawsuit filed in New York against two Hollywood execs– one of whom is dead– contains a lie that will affect its totality.

A young man who calls himself Rovier Carrington and lives in Los Angeles claimed in a lawsuit that he was raped by the two execs. One of them is former MTV exec Brian Graden. The other is Brad Grey, the former head of Paramount, who died in May 2017 at age 59 from cancer.

Carrington, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, the LA Times, and so on that he’s somehow the great-grandson of late Three Stooges star Moe Howard. No one checked this, they just regurgitated it as a fact (forget the fact that Carrington is African American).

But it turns out Carrington is more likely a relative of the kid in John Guare’s play and movie “Six Degrees of Separation”– the black kid that claims Sidney Poitier is his father.

I emailed Moe Howard’s grandson, screenwriter Jeffrey Scott, who replied thusly:
Hi Roger,
I had never heard the name Rovier Carrington until I received your email.
Here are the facts…
Moe had two children, a son, Paul, and a daughter, my mother, Joan.
Paul has one child, a daughter named Jennifer. She had no children.
My mother had two children: me and by brother, Michael.
My brother has two children, a boy, Keith, and a girl, Tessa. Neither are married or have children.
I have a daughter, Caroline, and a son, Moe. Neither are married or have children.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Jeff

So, Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Rovier Carrington, whoever he is, is not related to Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. Congrats to everyone who bought that story.

It’s extraordinary to me that everyone repeated Carrington’s claims without checking anything– claims against Brad Grey, whom we all knew for two or three decades, for better or worse. He can’t say a word in his own defense, and the whole thing sounds preposterous– not to mention grotesque.

But now we know that Carrington has made up his Three Stooges story– one that must have seemed good to him. But all it took to disprove was a little effort. His claims are disgusting. He offers no proof except his word. Which now looks pretty specious.

I’ve sent emails and/or text messages to Carrington, and his New York attorney Kevin Landau. If they answer, I’ll tell you what they said. (I’d like to know

Last night’s “Roseanne” grabbed 10.3 million viewers. That’s down 3.1 million from two weeks ago, when the last new episode aired. It was beaten soundly by a first run episode of “NCIS.”

The show is slowly losing millions of viewers, draining like a pin pricked helium balloon.

“Roseanne” is not giving viewers what it promised in its first episode– a Trumpathon. There’s been no mention of politics since the that first installment– no pink pussy hats or any other discussion of Trump. Barr was clever– she ginned up the Trump base with this expectation, but even they are beginning to figure out they’ve been had.

EARLIER
Roseanne Barr is on the promo trail for her TV and her live performances.

But down in Maryland, folks are not that keen to her do her stand up.

Most of the seats at Roseanne’s May 17th MGM National Harbor in National Harbor, Maryland are still available. Things are so bad that the cheap seats are now going for just 18 bucks. And there are hundreds of them.

The top price ticket is $71, although if you wait til the last minute that price will come down. MGM National Harbor may have to “paper” the house if they don’t outright cancel the show.

Maybe Roseanne can add Kanye West as an opening act. His “Slavery is a Choice” album is due any minute.

Gloria Allred was very happy that Bill Cosby was convicted of sexual misconduct. Allred is a tireless advocate for women who’ve been pawed or preyed on by bad guys.

So where did she celebrate? According to the New York Daily News yesterday, Allred lunched at New York’s Friars Club.

It was an odd choice. The Friars Club has been under the cloud of a much publicized sexual harrassment lawsuit filed by its former receptionist, Rehanna Almestica. The woman named former Scribe and celebrity wrangler Bruce Charet in particular. Charet is still there at the Friars– in February he announced the club was going  to roast Allred at an upcoming event.

Almestica said in her lawsuit that Charet did a variety of gross things to her that don’t bear repeating here. He denied all of it.

Another former employee, Shea Zephir, quit and posted to Facebook that Charet had made sexist comments to her. Her tirade was also anti-Semitic in nature, but her basic point was clear.

The Friars Club is in a sensitive position regarding #MeToo complaints. They had to cancel a planned roast of KISS rocker Gene Simmons after he was sued for sexual battery and banned from Fox News after alleged sexual misbehavior toward their female staff.

Another planned roast, of Harvey Weinstein, was canceled for similar issues.

The Friars Club was raided by federal Postal Inspectors in February 2017 after news of the Charet lawsuit and allegations of financial misconduct surfaced. Inspectors spent the day going through the East 55th St. townhouse that functions as the clubhouse, and took away boxes of material. The case is still open.

Allred’s choice, then, seems somewhat bizarre.

Meantime, I’m hearing that Friars Club members are resigning, in numbers, because of a huge fee hike. “They need the money to pay their lawyers,” says an insider.