After a lengthy investigation, Matthew Perry ‘s doctors and assistants were arrested and charged with causing his death. Court documents included the alleged texts that were sent among his doctors right before his death, suggesting how they exploited his addiction for their own benefit.
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Perry died in an apparent drowning, according to TMZ at his LA home on October 28, 2023. On December 15, 2023, the full toxicology report was revealed, finding his cause of death was due to “the acute effects of ketamine,” according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office. Contributing factors in the Friends actor’s death included drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine.
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US District Attorney Martin Estrada said in a press conference that Perry relapsed from his substance abuse issues last fall and the five people charged with his death “took advantage to profit for themselves.” Perry was open about his struggles with drug addiction in his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing .
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The actor’s longtime personal assistant, Kenneth “Kenny Iwamasa confessed to repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training, including administering multiple injections on the day Perry died. Iwamasa pleaded guilty to the charges.
Erik Fleming supplied Iwamasa with the Ketamine and has pleaded guilty to obtaining the drug from Sangha and delivering it to Iwamasa. In all, he delivered 50 vials of ketamine for Perry’s use. Fleming pleaded guilty on Aug. 8 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death.
Doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez corresponded with each other about supplying the ketamine to the actor. They received the drug from Dr. Jasveen Sangha dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” who supplied ketamine to doctors, including Plasencia, who would then facilitate the sale of the drug to people close to Perry. Sangha and Plasencia both pleaded not guilty to the charges against them, while Chavez has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine.
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