Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing in hit US sitcom Friends, died on October 28 last year from the “acute effects of ketamine” at the age of 54. An investigation unearthed a “broad underground criminal network” of people who “took advantage” of the US actor after he fell back into addiction in autumn last year. The first of five people charged over his death will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Matthew Perry died on October 28 at the age of 54 (Ian West/PA) During the last few weeks of his life, Perry “turned to street dealer” Fleming who is said to have sourced ketamine from Jasveen Sangha – named by authorities as “the ketamine queen”. The ketamine alleged supplied by Sangha was ultimately the dose that took Perry’s life, a Drug Enforcement Administrator claimed. Sangha is to face a trial on March 4 next year, alongside Salvador Plasencia, a doctor who allegedly used Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa to distribute ketamine to the actor from September to October last year.
Matthew Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine (Ian West/PA) Meanwhile, another doctor named Mark Chavez became the last defendant to admit to conspiring to distribute the surgical anaesthetic ketamine following the death of Perry. His sentence hearing was scheduled for April 2 2025. Perry had been seeking treatment for depression and anxiety when he became addicted to intravenous ketamine, turning to allegedly “unscrupulous doctors who saw Perry as a way to make .