Matthew Perry Estate Auction: Friends Scripts, Banksy Up for Sale
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- Heritage Auctions will hold a charity auction on June 5 of items from the estate of Matthew Perry, with net proceeds going to the Matthew Perry Foundation, which was set up after the actor's 2023 death to combat addiction stigma and expand access to evidence-based treatment.
- The Friends pilot script — signed by Perry and castmates Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer, and originally titled "Six of One" — carries a $500 starting price and was donated by Warner Bros, while a bundle of 26 scripts from key episodes starts at $1,000.
- Perry's 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble in a comedy series is among the lots, alongside a personal replica of the yellow peephole frame from Monica and Rachel's apartment, a Batman watch, a custom Batman ping-pong table (listed as missing the net), and framed Little River Band lyrics.
- An original Banksy from Perry's art collection is expected to sell for more than $800,000, making it the auction's headline lot ahead of the June 5 event at Heritage Auctions' Dallas showroom, with items on public display in Beverly Hills from May 18-29.
- The Matthew Perry Foundation is led by CEO Lisa Kasteler Calio, who said Perry "believed addiction should be met with compassion and science, not stigma and silence," a mission the foundation says the auction will directly fund.
- Five people have pleaded guilty in connection with Perry's October 2023 death from the acute effects of ketamine, including "Ketamine Queen" Jasveen Sangha, who was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison; two others — assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and broker Erik Fleming — await sentencing in May and June.
Why it matters: The auction converts Perry's most iconic personal artifacts into a sustained funding stream for addiction treatment and stigma reduction, with the Banksy alone projected at over $800,000 signaling the scale of resources the foundation could mobilize. Fans get authenticated, cast-signed pieces of television history, while the sale coincides with the final sentencing phase of the criminal case tied to Perry's ketamine death.
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