Erik Fleming is an American film and television director and producer. He is a graduate of

USC School of Cinematic Arts The USC School of Cinematic Arts is an academic unit of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles. With a history that dates to the first years of Sound film, talkies, the school descends from America's first ...

and known for creating the 1992 experimental short film, '' The Silver Surfer'', which portrayed the

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character through CGI.

Arrest

In August 2024, Fleming was charged in connection to actor

Matthew Perry Matthew Langford Perry (August 19, 1969 – October 28, 2023) was an American and Canadian actor, comedian, director and screenwriter. He gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom ''Friends'' (1994– ...

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-related drowning in October 2023. On August 8, 2024, he pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death. He faces up to 25 years in prison. Fleming would admit to obtaining ketamine for Perry to use from the supplier (Jasveen Sangha) and then giving it to Perry's assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, the person who would then inject Perry with the drug.

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