Matthew Perry’s will has left more than $1 million in a trust he established named after a famous Woody Allen movie character.
Per legal documents obtained by TMZthe late Friends star, who died of a ketamine overdose aged 54 on October 28, 2023, made a will in 2009 in which he said he wanted to leave ‘a majority of his assets to a trust’ .
He set up the trust called the Alvy Singer Living Trust – named after Allen’s 1977 Annie Hall character.
The documents list the value of the star’s personal estate as ‘just over $1 million’ – this money being what his executors found to be additional assets not already in his private trust.
Perry was worth an estimated $120 million. The star, who died without ever having children, had made a distinction in his will that any children he may have after 2009 were not ‘explicitly entitled’ to his fortune.
Matthew Perry’s will has left more than $1 million in a trust he set up named after a famous Woody Allen movie character (pictured 2022)
Lisa Ferguson and Mike Myers’ ex-wife Robin Ruzan are listed as executors of the will – both Perry and Ruzan worked on the game show Celebrity Liar in the 2010s.
The Chandler Bing actor – who starred in Friends from 1994-2004 – earned $20 million a year in residuals from the show.
Perry’s parents will likely assume his acting royalties as well as other parts of his estate, which includes his 2022 memoir, according to Day Pitney’s trusts and estates partner Tasha Dickinson.
Perry died from ‘acute effects of ketamine’ and drowning, his autopsy revealed – with the actor having similar amounts of ketamine in his system as a hospital patient under general anaesthetic.
“The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death for 54-year-old actor Matthew Langford Perry to be the acute effects of ketamine,” the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said.
‘Contributing factors in Mr Perry’s death include drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine (used to treat opioid use disorder). The manner of death is accident.’
Perry was found face down in the hot tub adjacent to the swimming pool at his Los Angeles home at 16.17 on October 28, stunning the world of showbiz and crushing fans worldwide.
He had received ketamine infusion therapy as a treatment for depression, the coroner reported — but the last session was a week and a half before he died, and ketamine is only in your system for three to four hours, meaning it didn’t. lead directly to his death.
Perry died from ‘acute effects of ketamine’ and drowning, his autopsy revealed – with the actor having similar amounts of ketamine in his system as a hospital patient under general anesthesia (pictured 2017)
He set up the trust called the Alvy Singer Living Trust – named after Allen’s Annie Hall character (pictured with Diane Keaton)
Mike Myers’ ex-wife Robin Ruzan is listed as one of the executors of Perry’s will – both Perry and Ruzan worked on the game show Celebrity Liar in the 2010s (pictured with Myers in 2004)
The Chandler Bing actor – who starred in Friends from 1994-2004 – earned a reported $20 million a year in residuals from the show (pictured 1997)
Perry released a memoir in 2022 titled ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’ in which he spoke openly about his struggles with addiction
“At the high levels of ketamine found in his postmortem blood samples, the main lethal effects would be from both cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression,” concluded doctor Raffi Djabourian.
Perry’s blood ketamine levels were 3,540 ng/ml in peripheral blood and 3,271 ng/ml in central blood.
For a patient under general anesthesia in a hospital, a blood ketamine level of 1,000 – 6,000 ng/ml would be normal, the coroner explained.
‘Drowning contributes because of the likelihood of submersion in the basin when he fell into unconsciousness; coronary artery disease contributes due to worsening of ketamine-induced myocardial effects on the heart.
‘Buphrenorphine effects are listed as contributing, although not at toxic levels, because of the additive respiratory effects when present with high levels of ketamine.’
He had no alcohol, cocaine, heroin, meth or fentanyl in his system.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and the coroner conducted an autopsy on October 29.