New home owner Anita Verma-Lallian with her Panditji, who gave Perry’s former home a blessing from a deck overlooking the backyard, the pool and the Pacific Ocean.
Photo: Instagram
Anita Verma-Lallian, an Arizona-based developer and movie producer based in Scottsdale has purchased Matthew Perry’s home in Sunset Mesa of Pacific Palisades for $8.55 million.
On Instagram, Verma-Lallian said her real estate agent told her that she wanted to show her an amazing “off-market” property.
“The moment I walked into the home, I absolutely fell in love with the features, especially the view of the Pacific Ocean,” Verma-Lallian said. “I believe every property has a history that we may or may not know about, and every home carries the energy that the current owner brings to it. I am Hindu, and it’s customary to do a blessing and prayer anytime you buy a new home. We were so lucky to have our Panditji [Hindu spiritual leader] from Arizona come to the house to do the blessing.”
Perry star of “Friends,” had purchased the 3,500-square-foot, midcentury modern house, on 0.4 acres on Blue Sail Drive in Pacific View Estates, near the Getty Villa in August 2020.
He did extensive renovations on the 1965 four-bedroom home, including adding a pool that had a red LED-it bat signal at the bottom.
In October of 2023, the 54-year-old was found unresponsive in the backyard hot tub at the property. His death was initially classified as a drowning, but the Los Angeles County medical examiner later said it was caused by the “acute effects of ketamine,” and that the actor had also had opioids in his system.
The actor who played Chandler Bing on Friends was public with his battle with addiction, which he wrote about in the book published in November 2022 (Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing).
The past August 2024, his personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa two doctors, Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez and two others Erik Fleming and Jasveen Sangha were charged with providing Perry with ketamine. Fleming, Iwamasa and Chavez have pled guilty and all face jail time but are cooperating with authorities.
Salvador Plasencia and Jasveen Sangha have pled not guilty.
Verma-Lallian on Instagram said “We chose to honor the positive aspects of the previous owner’s life, his immense talent, and all the joy he brought to so many people. The decision to purchase the home had nothing to do with the previous owner, just our love of the home. We do plan to keep some of the design elements. The batman logo in the pool is definitely staying.
It’s a piece of paradise that is filled with light and the perfect vacation home for us. Can’t wait to make new memories in it,” she said.
Overlooking the pool and the ocean from the home on Blue Sail Drive. Photo: Instagram
While Matthew chose to take the drugs he was in crisis and his old demons where back the profit motive was a total disregard for human life I hope they all get what’s coming to them including the ketamine queen if it had not for him being the beloved chandler bing they would have gotten away with it where was everybody when this was happening to him his costars family manager and friends he went off the rails to a tragic end such a great naturally comedic actor