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Matthew Perry's assistant sentenced to 41 months for role in the actor's death
Prosecutors said Iwamasa injected Perry with ketamine and worked with doctors to supply more than $50,000 of the drug before the actor died.
- In a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa was sentenced to 41 months in prison, concluding a multi-year legal case surrounding the actor's death.
- Prosecutors alleged that Iwamasa, lacking medical training, injected Perry with ketamine and coordinated with two doctors to supply more than $50,000 of the drug in the weeks before Perry's October 2023 death in his backyard hot tub in Los Angeles.
- After pleading guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death, Iwamasa admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry, including multiple times on the day he died; medical officials determined acute ketamine effects caused the overdose, with drowning as a contributing factor.
- Beyond prison time, Iwamasa faces two years of supervised release and a $10,000 fine; in court, he stated he was 'horribly, horribly sorry' for illegal acts he would 'forever regret' while Perry's mother Suzanne Morrison wrote that 'We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price.'
- All five defendants pleaded guilty, with the 'Ketamine Queen' Jasveen Sangha sentenced to 15 years in April and Dr. Salvador Plasencia to 30 months in December; Perry's sisters Caitlin Morrison and Madeline Morrison expressed conflicting views, with Caitlin stating she had 'no sympathy' while Madeline told the judge Iwamasa was 'more culpable' than Sangha.
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Matthew Perry’s assistant sentenced in Ketamine death case
LOS ANGELES, California — Kenneth Iwamasa, the former live-in assistant to late “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in federal prison for his role in the ketamine overdose death that killed the actor in October 2023.
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Matthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022 at The West Hollywood EDITION on Nov. 17, 2022, in West Hollywood, California. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for GQ) Matthew Perry’s live-in assistant was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 3 1/2 years in prison for administering the dose of ketamine that killed the Friends actor in 2023. Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, is one of five people charged and convicted in what federal prosecutors called a con…
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