Court Documents Paint a Horrifying Picture Inside Matthew Perry’s Bedroom On the Day He Died
Recently revealed court documents have not only shed light on the events that transpired in the days and months leading up to the overdose death of actor Matthew Perry in October 2023.
They have also painted a terrifying picture of a man living in chaos and the “disaster” in which law enforcement found the 54-year-old actor surrounded at the time of his death.
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The Heartbreaking Discovery of Matthew Perry’s Body
It’s been nearly ten months since Friends actor Matthew Perry was found dead in his $6 million mansion in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. He would have been 55 years old on August 19.
According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office, authorities received a 911 call about an individual in cardiac arrest, and paramedics were dispatched to Perry’s home on Blue Sail Drive in Los Angeles.
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L.A. Fire Department spokesperson Brian Humphrey reported that a call for a potential “water rescue” was received at 4:07 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, October 28, but when paramedics arrived, they found Perry face down in a stand-alone hot tub near the pool behind his home.
He was unresponsive.
Medical authorities said that Perry had not been in the water for very long at the time of his death, as his body was not edematous or waterlogged when first responders arrived.
The L.A. County Medical Examiner Arrives at the Scene
Authorities stretched tape across parts of the property, and a white tent could be seen near the pool and hot tub behind Perry’s home. His parents, Suzanne Perry and John Bennett Perry, who were divorced in 1970, were reportedly at the scene that evening, as was Suzanne’s husband, Keith Morrison, a correspondent for Dateline NBC.
Matthew Langford Perry was pronounced deceased at the scene by paramedics.
Shortly thereafter, authorities from the Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner (DME) arrived at Perry’s home to conduct a scene investigation before placing Perry’s body on a stretcher and moving it to a coroner’s van through the front door of the late actor’s home on Saturday evening.
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Much of this information was known and reported on within 24 to 48 hours of Matthew Perry’s death. But court documents released in recent days reveal much more about the state of affairs inside Perry’s home on the evening of his death last October.
Perry’s Bedroom In a State of Disarray
Court documents released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California paint a picture of Matthew Perry’s lifestyle at the time of his death. Information contained within those documents could even give insight into Perry’s mindset in the days and weeks leading up to his death.
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According to police who arrived at Perry’s home in response to the desperate 911 call, the late actor’s master bedroom was in a shocking state of disarray. Crime scene photos reportedly confirm this detail, according to a law enforcement source who has viewed those photos and spoke directly with The New York Post.
“It was a disaster,” said the source in an interview.
He described the master suite with “clothes everywhere, towels on the floor . . . just dirty.” He further described the room as having the appearance of being where someone stayed who might be “in the middle of a long bender.”
But according to his account, the master bedroom wasn’t merely one of a string of bedrooms and living areas in a shambles. On the contrary, he described the entire house–except for Perry’s bedroom–as “clean” and very “neat.”
“Like maybe the cleaning lady wasn’t allowed in those bedrooms,” he speculated.
Court Documents Reveal the Tens of Thousands Perry Spent on Ketamine
In addition to revelations about the “disaster” state of Perry’s bedroom, new information has also come to light with regard to the amount of money Perry spent on the powerful dissociative drug ketamine over a nearly one-month span leading up to the actor’s death.
According to court documents made public in recent days, Perry’s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, took measures to procure the drug for Perry, including using multiple sources to do so. Over the course of approximately four weeks–the four weeks before his death–Iwamasa purchased more than $55,000 worth of ketamine.
During this difficult time, our thoughts and prayers continue to be with Perry’s family, friends, and fans.
