More details about Matthew Perry 's death investigation are surfacing. At an Aug. 15 press conference, prosecutors revealed text messages between his doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez —two of five people charged in connection to the Friends alum's death —allegedly showing that the medical professionals discussed how much the actor would be willing to spend on ketamine, the drug found in his system after he was discovered unresponsive in the hot tub of his California home.
"I wonder how much this moron will pay," Plasencia allegedly wrote in one September 2023 message to Chavez, according to the press conference from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), while allegedly adding in another text that he wanted to be Perry's "go to for drugs." And other defendants in the case allegedly exchanged messages about profiting off Perry's ketamine use as well. The DOJ alleges that Erik Fleming —who pleaded guilty to two ketamine-related charges after admitting to authorities that he distributed the ketamine that killed the 54-year-old—confessed in a text, "I wouldn't do it if there wasn't chance of me making some money for doing this.
" And that's not the only evidence prosecutors have shared regarding the doctors' alleged involvement in his passing, which was ruled a drug and drowning-related accident and the result of the "acute effects of ketamine" by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. According to the DOJ, Plasencia, 42, worked with Perry's assistant Ke.