LOS ANGELES, May 20 — From artwork by Banksy to scripts from the smash TV series “Friends,” dozens of Matthew Perry’s personal belongings are up for auction in the United States.

Perry, who played the neurotic and sarcastic Chandler Bing, died in 2023 at the age of 54 after decades of battling addictions.

Now, the executors of his estate have put some 130 lots up for auction, including his favourite watch and childhood mementos, to raise money for the Matthew Perry Foundation, an organisation dedicated to helping people with addiction.

“It’s a combination of all kinds of things from the actor’s lifetime,” said Roberta Kramer, of Heritage Auctions, who are handling the sale.

“Things relating to his work on ‘Friends’ and other television shows and films, but a lot of very personal things too, from all the way from childhood to adulthood.”

Items include Perry’s treasured Memorigin watch with a Batman emblem, as well as artwork he collected during his lifetime, including “Girl with Balloon” and “Nola,” by street artist Banksy, which are expected to fetch around US$1 million (RM4 million).

An art piece named “Mattman” showing a depiction of late US actor Matthew Perry, who was an avid Batman fan, is displayed ahead of “The Matthew Perry Estate Auction” at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills, California on May 19, 2026. — AFP pic

There are also a number of scripts from the decade of “Friends,” a series about six young people navigating adulthood, relationships and careers in New York that made Perry and his co-stars multi-millionaires and household names.

Kramer said Perry started the foundation with the aim of using his “celebrity and his experience in life with substance abuse to help other people.”

“We know that he would be happy that all of his things went to help the mission of the foundation.”

Six people have been convicted in connection with Perry’s ketamine overdose death.

Five of them have already been sentenced, including a woman dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” who styled herself as a dealer to the stars. A sixth person is expected to be sentenced next week.

The auction will take place in Dallas and online on June 5. — AFP

LOS ANGELES, May 14 — A man who helped supply Friends star Matthew Perry with the drug ketamine before the actor’s overdose death in 2023 was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday.

Erik Fleming had pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine and distribution of ketamine resulting in death. 

Prosecutors said Fleming, a former licensed drug addiction counselor, purchased vials of ketamine from a dealer and sold them to Perry’s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who injected Perry with a fatal dose.

Judge Sherilyn Garnett also sentenced Fleming to three years of supervised probation following his prison term, a Justice Department spokesperson said.

Medical examiners concluded that Perry died from acute effects of ketamine, which combined with other factors to cause the actor to lose consciousness and drown in his hot tub in October 2023.

He was 54 years old.

Perry had publicly acknowledged decades of substance abuse, including periods that overlapped with the height of his fame playing the sardonic but charming Chandler Bing on the 1990s hit NBC television comedy Friends.

Ketamine, a short-acting anaesthetic with hallucinogenic properties, is prescribed to treat depression and anxiety, but it also has gained popularity as an illicit party drug among recreational users.

Fleming was the fourth of five people to be sentenced in connection with Perry’s death. — Reuters