Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ fortune: Where do his yearly $20 million residuals go now?
06.11.2023 - 19:31
/ nypost.com
Tre Lovell told The Post that in the case of a death like Perry’s, there are three options that could happen. “There may be a trust, and that would be administered privately, through his trustee. He could have had a will — that would be administered under [probate] court supervision.
If he had neither, there’s a statutory framework put in place, where there’s a listing of his heirs that would get his estate.”Lovell added that if the third option happens, since Perry had no wife or children and his parents are still alive, “They would split his estate. His siblings would be next in line, after the parents. But, since both of his parents are living, they would get it,” he explained.
Perry — and his “Friends” co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer — reportedly make $20 million a year in residuals. The beloved NBC comedy ran for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004. Perry, who struggled with addiction and sobriety for years, died of an apparent drowning in a hot tub at his home in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.He’s survived by a large family: his actor father, John Bennett Perry, 82, his mother Suzanne, 75, his famous stepfather, “Dateline’s” Keith Morrison, 76, and his five half-siblings: Caitlin, Emily, Will and Madeline Morrison (who are Suzanne’s kids with Keith) and Maria Perry (who is John Bennett Perry’s daughter with his second wife, Debbie Boyle).