Mourners were gathered at the Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles to pay tribute to the actor
, who died on Saturday at age 54, was buried on Friday at a Los Angeles cemetery in a service attended by relatives and castmates from the hit 1990s television sitcom Friends, show business media reported, citing photographs., less than a mile from the Warner Bros studio where the show was filmed. It is also the final resting place of numerous Hollywood A-listers including Michael Jackson, Lucille Ball and Elizabeth Taylor.
Media including TMZ and the New York Post’s Page Six reported Friday’s event, posting long-distance and aerial photographs of people in attendance.Page Six said Perry’s father, John Bennett Perry, and his stepfather, Keith Morrison, were also there.Forest Lawn did not respond to a Reuters request for confirmation.
Perry’s death came one year after publication of his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which chronicled his decades-long struggle with addiction to prescription painkillers and alcohol. At the time, Perry said he had been sober for about 18 months.
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