Next Monday the 28th marks one year of the death of Matthew Perry, the remembered Chandler Bing of Friends. His family has reminded him of these days on television shows, talking about their last times together and how hard it is to live with his absence. However, they have hardly spoken about their inheritance and what will happen to their assets; Until now it was only known that They had created a foundation to help in the fight against addictions. Now it has become known that precisely these days, when the first anniversary is celebrated, the house in which the actor lived and died, in whose jacuzzi died from drowning due to the effects of a high dose of ketamine, an anesthetic drug, has been sold. The buyer, buyer in this case, has paid $8,550,000 for it.
The actor, 54, lived almost retired in that apparently simple but luxurious home, located in the Pacific Palisades area, a quiet and wealthy neighborhood west of Los Angeles located between mountains and facing the Pacific Ocean. He had resided there since 2020, when he bought and later renovated the house for six million dollars; This implies that the property has appreciated by almost 50% in these four years.
The new owner is a woman born and resident in Arizona, in the Scottsdale area (next to Phoenix) called Anita Verma-Lallian42 years old, who is dedicated to real estate development and is also a film producer through her own company founded by her and called Camelback Productions. She is the daughter of Kuldip Verma, born in Nabha, India, and founder of Vermaland, one of the private companies that accumulates the most territory in the State. Media like Insider business information They estimate his fortune at about 70 million dollars. According to the local newspaper Arizona Republichis daughter, Verma-Lallian, has managed land, both residential and commercial, worth more than $1 billion in recent years; Among other operations, in August he sold an 8.5 square kilometer piece of land for 160 million dollars, which he had bought two years before for 40 million. The purchase and sale took place in an off-market operation, as reported exclusively by the newspaper. The New York Times, and managed by the real estate agency Christie’s. According to this newspaper, the businesswoman has bought it as an investment; that is, it does not intend to reside there. He also did not want to comment on the matter.
This was not Perry’s only property, he also had a house west of the city in the Hollywood Hills, the famous Hollywood Hills, on the famous Sunset Avenue. He had bought it in May 2023, just four months before he died, for about five million dollars. In this case it was a 1957 house with a single floor and about 260 square meters with a fireplace, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a movie room and a central patio of 900 square meters that has a swimming pool. After the actor’s death, it went on sale in May 2024 for $5,195,000. For now, still on the market.
The Pacific Palisades house was a candy in the Los Angeles real estate market. Built in the mid-sixties in the typical style mid century of the city’s homes, it has about 325 square meters distributed on a single floor with four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a toilet. Perry renovated it, adding a swimming pool, in which there was a red Batman sign, since he was passionate about the DC Comics character.
Perry loved his home, where he spent a lot of time and which he had customized to his liking. On his networks he regularly posted photographs of his house, both inside and outside. In fact, the last image he uploaded to Instagram was of himself listening to music in the jacuzzi, watching the Pacific. In it he showed his passion for Batman, calling himself Mattman.
The interpreter died in that jacuzzi on the night of October 28, 2024. His assistant found him and, at first, his death seemed like a drowning. But the forensics saw that ketamine had been very present; He used it therapeutically and had undergone a session 10 days ago, but the amount present in his body was much higher. Even so, they described the death as accidental. However, last August and after a long investigation, a ketamine distribution plot in Los Angeles was dismantled. Five people were arrested, all of them related to Perry: the assistant who found him at the pool, Kenneth Iwamasa; two doctors named Mark Chávez and Salvador Plasencia; a trafficker, Jasveen Sangha, known as the queen of ketamine; and Erik Fleming, a fifth man who served as courier between them. They are awaiting trial, but both one of the doctors, Plasencia, and Sangha face sentences that could keep them in prison for the rest of their lives. The hearing will take place next March.
