Matthew Perry Auction Sells 26 Friends Scripts for Foundation
Matthew Perry's personal memorabilia, artwork and other valuables are headed to auction on June 5, with proceeds going to the Matthew Perry Foundation. The sale turns items from his estate into funding for addiction-recovery work, including a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and grants to organizations working directly with recovering addicts.
Heritage Auctions in Dallas
Heritage Auctions opened the auction site on Tuesday, and the items will be on display from May 18 to May 29 in Beverly Hills before the June 5 sale at Heritage Auctions' Dallas showroom and online. That format widens the buyer pool beyond Texas and makes the collection accessible to bidders who will not be in the room.
The sale includes 26 Friends scripts from key episodes, among them The One With Ross's Tan, The One Where Joey Speaks French and the two-part series finale. Scripts from the pilot and part one of the finale are signed by Perry, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer, with Warner Bros. supplying those signed copies.
Chandler Bing and the SAG win
Perry played Chandler Bing from 1994 to 2004 on NBC's Friends, and that decade on the sitcom is the reason these papers carry value well beyond prop status. He also won a 1995 Screen Actors Guild Award for best performance by an ensemble in a comedy series, a résumé point that makes the signed scripts more than ordinary cast memorabilia.
The auction also includes Perry's personal replica of the yellow peephole frame from Monica and Rachel's apartment, his Friends photo album titled The One With the Last Supper, and works by Banksy and Mel Bochner that he owned. For collectors, the range matters: it is not a single TV lot but a concentrated sale of items tied to one of the most watched sitcoms of its era and to Perry's own taste beyond the screen.
Lisa Kasteler Calio on the mission
Lisa Kasteler Calio, the foundation's CEO, said, “Matthew believed addiction should be met with compassion and science, not stigma and silence” and “This auction fuels the Foundation’s work to expand access to evidence-based care and confront stigma. It is one more way we ensure that no one has to fight this disease alone.”
Net proceeds will support the Matthew Perry Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, grants to organizations that work directly with recovering addicts, and Healing Appalachia, a recovery-focused sober music festival. For buyers, the sale is a chance to own pieces of Perry's career; for everyone else, it is a straightforward test of whether celebrity collectibles can be redirected into ongoing treatment and recovery work instead of staying locked in private hands.
