When officials first announced that they were investigating Matthew Perry’s death . . . and where he got the ketamine that killed him . . . it was unclear if anything would actually come of it.
But it was just announced that FIVE PEOPLE have been charged, including Matthew’s live-in personal assistant.
All of them played roles in Matthew’s addiction to ketamine, which he was apparently using both as a therapy AND in extreme, anesthesia-level amounts.
Matthew’s 59-year-old assistant Kenneth Iwamasa has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing a death.
Two doctors were also charged: Salvador Plasencia of Santa Monica . . . and Mark Chavez of San Diego.
The two doctors discussed Matthew’s desire for ketamine in a text exchange together last September, one month before he died. Plasencia asked Chavez, quote, “I wonder how much this moron will pay . . . Let’s find out.”
Plasencia also taught the assistant how to inject the ketamine into Matthew . . . and told Chavez that process was, quote, “like a bad movie.”
Those two “doctors” provided Matthew with about 20 vials of ketamine in the month leading up to his death . . . for $55,000 in cash. But that might not have been the ketamine that killed him.
The fourth person charged was an acquaintance of Matthew’s named Erik Fleming, who reached out to a major underground seller known as the “ketamine queen” to get even MORE ketamine.
That person, Jasveen Sangha, was the fifth person charged. She knew that ketamine could be fatal. In fact, in 2019, a man overdosed on ketamine that she provided. Afterward, a family member sent a text to her . . . saying, “The ketamine you sold my brother killed him. It’s listed as the cause of death.”
After that, prosecutors say the “ketamine queen” Googled, “Can ketamine be listed as a cause of death.”
Over two weeks, she sold approximately 50 vials of ketamine to Matthew for around $11,000 in cash.
She provided them through the acquaintance, who coordinated the sales with the assistant. On October 28th of last year, the assistant injected Matthew with at least three shots of ketamine using syringes provided by the “moron” doctor.
Matthew was found unresponsive in his pool later that day.
Despite all these charges, Matthew’s death was ruled an accidental overdose . . . from the “acute effects of ketamine.”
A rep for the DEA says, quote, “Matthew Perry’s journey began with unscrupulous doctors who abused their position of trust because they saw him as a payday. And it ended with street dealers who sold him ketamine in unmarked vials.”
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