Chicago – August 17, 2024
aFive people have been charged in connection with “Friends” star Matthew Perry’s death from “the acute effects of ketamine” last October.
During a Thursday news conference, Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, announced a shocking “number of charges against the five defendants.”
Physician Salvador Plasencia, 42, and 41-year-old Jasveen Sangha, whom the DOJ’s press release referred to as the “The Ketamine Queen” of North Hollywood, face 18 criminal counts for allegedly “distributing ketamine to Perry during the final weeks of the actor’s life.”
Co-conspirators named in the case are Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, 59; Dr. Mark Chavez, 54 and Erik Fleming, 54, who is described as Perry’s acquaintance.
Iwamasa and Fleming pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine; Fleming pleaded guilty to an additional charge of distribution of ketamine resulting in death. Chavez “has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine,” the Department of Justice said.
