Erik Fleming, one of five jailed in Matthew Perry’s drug overdose case, was a filmmaker. Erik, who allegedly arranged Matthew’s ketamine murder, directed Scarlett Johansson in a 1999 film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Matthew Perry’s aide and physicians ‘killed’ him? “That moron…,” unsettling texts and details surface following arrest)
Scarlett and Eva Mendes starred in Erik’s 1999 children’s fantasy comedy My Brother the Pig. He directed the road movie Tyrone, starring Coolio and Kevin Connolly, who eventually became famous for Entourage, the same year. Erik produced the first season of The Surreal Life (2003), starring Cory Feldman, Gabrielle Carteris, Vince Neil, and MC Hammer. Later, he and Sydney Holland founded Rich Hippie, an unsuccessful production firm.
A “broad underground criminal network” dedicated to providing Matthew the powerful surgical anaesthetic that killed him has five people, including his personal assistant and two doctors, prosecuted.
U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada announced the accusations Thursday, saying the doctors used Matthew’s history of addiction to give him hazardous dosages of ketamine in his final months. Estrada stated, “They knew what they were doing was wrong. “They knew their actions endangered Mr. Perry. They did it anyway.”
Matthew died of a ketamine overdose in October 2018, and prosecutors alleged his live-in personal helper, Kenneth Iwamasa, gave him several shots. Kenneth found Perry dead later that day and was the first to talk to detectives.
Authorities said Perry’s regular doctors, who were not charged, gave him ketamine infusions for depression, but not enough to kill him. His doctors refused to give him more, so he sought others.
