US EditionDoctor to be sentenced for selling Matthew Perry ketamine before ‘Friends’ star’s overdose death
Salvador Plasencia admitted to distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry over two weeks before the actor's death and faces up to 40 years in prison and loss of his medical license.
- A doctor pleaded guilty to illegally selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star's overdose death.
- Prosecutors are asking for a three-year prison sentence for Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who admitted to exploiting Perry's addiction for profit.
- Plasencia's lawyers argued for leniency, stating he has already lost his medical license, clinic, and career.
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Matthew Perry’s 'Dr. P' faces sentencing for supplying actor with ketamine before death
Salvador Plasencia, who authorities said repeatedly sold and injected Matthew Perry with the drug ketamine in the weeks leading up to the actor’s death in 2023, faces sentencing before a federal judge Wednesday.
On Wednesday, December 3, one of the doctors involved in Matthew Perry's tragedy must know his sentence. Accused of exploiting the actor's distress to enrich himself, he risks very big after having put in place a real financial scam on the back of the star of Friends.
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Plasencia, an operator of an urgent care clinic in Malibu, is set to be given his sentence in LA at around 7pm UK-time tonight. He had been set to go on trial in August in the case prior to reaching a plea deal
1st person set to be sentenced in connection with Matthew Perry's fatal ketamine overdose
David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A doctor who admitted to distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry weeks before he died is set to be sentenced on Wednesday — the first among the five people convicted in connection with the “Friends” actor’s 2023 overdose death. Salvador Plasencia pleaded guilty in July to four counts of distribution of ketamine. He is one of two doctors convicted of providing Perry with ketamine before the act…
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