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Friends star keepsakes go for auction

F ROM artwork by Banksy to scripts from the smash TV series Friends , dozens of Matthew Perry’s personal belongings are up for auction in the US. Perry, who played the neurotic and sarcastic Chandler Bing, died in 2023 at the age of 54 after decades of battling addictions, reported AFP. Now, the executors of his estate have put some 130 lots up for auction, including his favourite watch and childhood mementos, to raise money for the Matthew Perry Foundation, an organisation o Proceeds will be funnelled to Matthew Perry foundation

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with addiction. “It’s a combination of all kinds of things from the actor’s lifetime,” said Roberta Kramer, of Heritage Auctions, who are handling the sale. “Things relating to his work on Friends and other television shows and films, but a lot of very personal things too, from all the way from childhood to adulthood.” Items include Perry’s treasured Memorigin watch with a Batman emblem, as well as artwork he collected during his lifetime, including Girl with Balloon and Nola , by street artist Banksy, which are

A ‘Batman watch’, purchased in Hong Kong, is one of Perry’s favourite personal items.

A photo album given by actress Jennifer Aniston to fellow Friends cast members Perry and Courtney Cox. – PICS FROM AFP

Harry, Meghan making war memoir BRITAIN’S Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are developing a film adaptation of a best-selling memoir about a British military mission in Afghanistan, said Netflix. No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege , written by British Major Adam Jowett, chronicles his work leading a unit of paratroopers and Royal Irish Rangers in July 2006. The film will be produced by the couple and their Archewell Productions scripted content head Tracy Ryerson, the streaming giant told AFP. Matt Charman, an Oscar nominee for Bridge of Spies (2015), will handle the screenplay. Harry and Meghan – who left the British royal family and moved to the US – have worked with Netflix since 2020 as they look to make their own fortunes, independent of the British taxpayer. The streamer scored a hit with their tell-all Harry & Meghan, but subsequent projects in their reported US$20 million (RM79 million)-deal fell flat. They included the lifestyle series With love, Meghan , in which the former actress entertained guests in an opulent California home with a series of arts-and-crafts projects. Critics panned it as tone deaf and uncreative and it was cancelled after two seasons. Last year, the couple signed a more restrictive first-look agreement with Netflix. Harry – the youngest son of King Charles III – completed two combat tours in Afghanistan as a member of the British Army and rose to the rank of captain by the time of his discharge. Fierce and deadly battles wracked Musa Qala in Helmand province, then an opium growing region and stronghold for the Taliban, where it was Jowett’s mission to hold the city with a small number of British troops. people. We know that he would be happy that all of his things went to help the mission of the foundation.” Six people have been convicted in connection with Perry’s ketamine overdose death. Five of them have already been sentenced, including a woman dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” who styled herself as a dealer to the stars. A sixth person is expected to be sentenced next week. The auction will take place in Dallas and online on June 5.

expected to fetch around US$1 million (RM4 million). There are also a number of scripts from the decade of Friends , a series about six young people navigating adulthood, relationships and careers in New York that made Perry and his co-stars multi-millionaires and household names. Kramer said Perry started the foundation with the aim of using his “celebrity and his experience in life with substance abuse to help other

An art piece named Mattman showing a depiction of Perry.

Kramer shows Banksy’s art pieces Girl with Balloon and Nola ahead of the auction.

Infamous Louvre heist gets silver screen debut LAST year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre – when thieves made off with jewellery worth some US$100 million (RM397 million) – is set to become a movie and a documentary series, said a publisher. company Iconoclast while rights for a documentary series were acquired by a British producer, the Flammarion publishing house said.

the world-famous museum that ultimately led to the replacement of its director Laurence des Cars. After seven months of investigation and despite the arrests of the main suspects, the jewels have still not been found. The authors said their apparent disappearance “has become a dense mystery, a puzzle that has plunged investigators into deep confusion”. The heist illustrates how “the theft of artworks has become a business like any other for many criminals. The criminal underworld has found a new cash cow”. – AFP

The book, written by three journalists, from French dailies Le Parisien and Le Monde , and weekly glossy magazine Paris Match , is to hit bookstores on Wednesday. According to trade magazine Le Film Francais , the movie project is in development, though neither the title nor the cast has been announced. The Louvre heist sent shockwaves around the world and sparked a security crisis within

French director Romain Gavras – whose work includes 2025 Hollywood film Sacrifice starring Anya Taylor-Joy and music videos including most recently a hypnotic schoolboy choreography for Gener8ion – will draw inspiration from the investigative book Main basse sur le Louvre (A Grab at the Louvre) . Film rights to the book about the Oct 19, 2025 heist had been sold to the production

Although suspects for the Oct 19 Louvre heist are in custody, the stolen jewels are still missing. – 123RFPIC