Matthew Perry's assistant sentenced to 41 months for role in the actor's death
Prosecutors said he injected Perry with ketamine multiple times and helped conceal evidence after the actor’s overdose death.
- 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 aide gets 3 years for role in death
What happenedKenneth Iwamasa, actor Matthew Perry’s live-in assistant and the person who injected him with a fatal dose of ketamine in 2023, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison on Wednesday. Iwamasa was the last to be sentenced of five people who pleaded guilty in the case, apparently “bringing a yearslong legal saga to a close,” The New York Times said. Only “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha drew a longer sentence, at 15 years.…
Kenneth Iwamasa pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute ketamine that caused the death of Matthew Perry.
He is the last of five defendants convicted in the case.
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Winston-Salem JournalLast person sentenced in Matthew Perry death
LOS ANGELES — The personal assistant who injected "Friends" star Matthew Perry with a fatal dose of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison Wednesday, bringing to a close the prosecution of five people who…
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