Friends star Matthew Perry’s house has reportedly been sold – one year after the actor died on the property.
The Chandler Bing star was found unresponsive in his Los Angeles home on October 28 last year. Medics pronounced the actor dead at the scene, at the age of 54 – later determining that the drug ketamine had been his primary cause of death.
Nearly one year later, and the house has now reportedly been sold, with its new owner said to be planning on utilising it as a vacation home.
The 3,500 square foot home, based in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, was originally purchased by Perry in 2020 for the sum of $6million (£4.6million).
Boasting four bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths, Perry’s open plan home boasts spectacular views of the LA skyline and panoramic ocean.
The many modifications made to the property by the actor reportedly include the addition of a swimming pool and its attached hot tub.
According to The New York Times, the new owner of the property is real estate developer and movie producer Anita Verma-Lallian.
The sale was finalised off-market, with the new owner reportedly paying $8.55million (£6.55million) through a trust.
This is just one in a string of property deals for Verma-Lallian, who the newspaper reports is the founder and chief executive of development and acquisition company Arizona Land Consulting.
A police investigation into Perry’s death is still ongoing. Last month five people were charged, including his personal assistant and two doctors.
His cause of death was eventually ruled as due to the ‘acute effects of ketamine’, with drowning and coronary artery disease also listed as contributing factors.
Perry’s doctor, Mark Chavez, friend Erik Fleming and assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa each pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine during their respective trials in September and October.
According to court documents, Perry was taking ketamine 6 to 8 times a day in the time prior his death – provided by a ‘network of corrupt doctors’.
Earlier this week, the actor’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, shared how she felt that the actor had a ‘premonition’ shortly before his death.
‘He went through a period, interestingly enough, just before he died when he was showing me one of his new houses,’ Morrison said during an interview with the Today show.
‘He came up to me, and he said, “I love you so much, and I’m so happy to be with you now”…it was almost as though it was a premonition or something.’
‘How long has it been since we’ve had a conversation like that? It’s been years,’ she remembered thinking to herself.
‘I think there was something; there was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly,’ she continued.
‘But he said, “I’m not frightened anymore,’ and it worried me”.’