Matthew Perry's 'Street Dealer' Managed High-End Rehab Clinic Where A Patient Died: Report

Erik Fleming was one of five people charged in connection with Perry's death and was previously implicated in another fatal overdose.

The man who authorities described as Matthew Perry’s “street dealer” was once the manager of a high-end rehabilitation center where a patient died, according to a new story from The Hollywood Reporter.

Earlier this month, former film director Erik Fleming plead guilty to two charges after the Department of Justice found he had sold Perry’s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, several ketamine vials in the days ahead of the “Friends” actor’s death in October of 2023.

Fleming was one of five people charged in connection with Perry’s fatal ketamine overdose.

Now, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Fleming was the program director and sober living manager of an upscale Bel-Air treatment center called Red Door at the time a 36-year-old patient named William Cooney died from an overdose in January 2021.

While Michael J. Plonsker, an attorney for Red Door, confirmed to THR that Fleming worked for the clinic at the time of Cooney’s death, he told the outlet that Fleming “was not at the facility on the day” Cooney died.