{"id":211130,"date":"2026-01-01T05:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:43:09","slug":"friends-star-matthew-perry-memorial-plaque-installed-two-years-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211130\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends star Matthew Perry memorial plaque installed two years after death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hollywood Graveyard Instagram post was captioned: \u201cThe crypt of Matthew Perry has been marked at Forest Lawn Hollywood \u2014 forever remembered in the hearts of friends and fans all over the world”.<\/p>\n

Perry played the role of Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom series Friends, which premiered in 1994.<\/p>\n

He remained close with co-stars David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow after the show\u2019s decade-long run.<\/p>\n

He was found dead in his Los Angeles home in 2023 after a years-long battle with depression and addiction.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe cast of the 90s sitcom Friends (l-r) Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribbiani. Photo \/ David Bjerke\/NBCU Photo Bank <\/p>\n

Last month, Dr Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in prison<\/a> for supplying Perry with ketamine in the weeks before his death.<\/p>\n

Plasencia was one of five people charged following a federal investigation into how the late actor was able to obtain the drug through an underground Hollywood ring, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s family reportedly urged the judge for an extended sentence<\/a>, labelling Plasencia as the \u201cmost culpable\u201d after he admitted to injecting Perry with ketamine \u201cwithout a legitimate medical purpose\u201c.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one alive and in touch with the world at all could have been unaware of Matthew\u2019s struggles,\u201d Perry\u2019s mother Suzanne Morrison wrote in her victim impact statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this doctor conspired to break his most important vows, repeatedly, sneaked through the night to meet his victim in secret.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor what, a few thousand dollars? <\/p>\n

\u201cSo he could feed on the vulnerability of our son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s Friends co-stars participated in a fundraiser last month to honour him on the second anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n

Page Six reported that the actors each signed limited edition artworks by Tim Wakefield that were sold at auction to benefit the Matthew Perry Foundation.<\/p>\n

The foundation seeks to support people struggling with addiction by networking, fighting stigma, and championing treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hollywood Graveyard Instagram post was captioned: \u201cThe crypt of Matthew Perry has been marked at Forest Lawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,74,1558,634,3401,156,11784,1445,15978,3369,19872,111,139,69,828,3377,128345,2737,43211,128346,1237,1530],"class_list":["post-211130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-after","tag-been","tag-death","tag-drug","tag-entertainment","tag-fatal","tag-friends","tag-installed","tag-matthew","tag-memorial","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overdose","tag-perry","tag-plaque","tag-star","tag-suffering","tag-tomb","tag-two","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}