Two entertainment industry figures connected to ’s death, one of whom pled guilty in the federal investigation, were involved in another fatal L.A. area overdose nearly three years earlier, family members of the deceased tell .
Erik Fleming, a former film director and TV producer with a resume, was recently by the Department of Justice as a “street dealer” for his role in distributing vials of ketamine to Perry’s live-in personal assistant in the days before the actor’s October 2023 death. Brooke Mueller, the ex-wife of former addict Charlie Sheen who’s made headlines for her own struggles over the years with sobriety, with investigators in the Perry case due her ties to the suspects, including a longstanding friendship with Fleming as well as time spent in rehab with Jasveen Sangha, the so-called “Ketamine Queen,” from whom Fleming had purchased the vials. The earlier fatal overdose, on Jan.
4, 2021, was William Cooney, a 36-year-old found unresponsive and lying on the floor of a bathroom by fellow residents at the Red Door, a high-end recovery center in Bel-Air. previously the circumstances surrounding this death as part of a larger examination of alleged substandard care at the facility, which at the time was apparently operating beyond the scope of its state licensure. (The owners’ previous facility was after multiple client deaths.
) Employees and clients at the Red Door had told that Cooney obtained the drugs that killed him — including fentanyl from .