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    Home - Entertainment - Doctor to plead guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine before Friends star suffered fatal overdose

    Doctor to plead guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine before Friends star suffered fatal overdose

    Doctor to plead guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine before Friends star suffered fatal overdose

    Doctor to plead guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine before Friends star suffered fatal overdose

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    • June 17, 2025
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    Cliff Notes –  Doctor to plead guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine

    • Dr Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to charges of distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry, potentially facing 40 years in prison.
    • Prosecutors allege that Plasencia provided most of the ketamine consumed by Perry in his final weeks, contributing to the actor’s fatal overdose.
    • Four others, including another doctor, are implicated in the case, with only one defendant maintaining a not guilty plea.

    Doctor to plead guilty to giving Matthew Perry ketamine before Friends star suffered fatal overdose | US News

    A Los Angeles doctor has agreed to plead guilty to giving Friends actor Matthew Perry ketamine in the lead up to his death from a fatal overdose, prosecutors have said.

    Dr Salvador Plasencia, who will admit to four counts of distribution of ketamine, faces up to a maximum of 40 years in prison.

    He is among five people charged in connection with the death of Friends star Perry, 54, whose body was found in his hot tub by his assistant in October 2023.

    The medical examiner ruled that ketamine and other factors caused him to lose consciousness and drown.

    The actor had been using the drug through his regular doctor in a legal treatment for depression, but had begun seeking more ketamine than his doctor would give him.

    Plasencia is accused of supplying the bulk of Perry’s ketamine in his final weeks. He and three other defendants, including another doctor, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for their cooperation.

    Jasmine Sangha, who prosecutors allege was a major ketamine dealer, is alleged to have provided the dose that killed the actor and is the only defendant who has pleaded not guilty to the prosecution’s case.

    About a month before the actor’s death, Perry found Plasencia, a doctor who allegedly asked another doctor, Mark Chavez, to obtain the drug for him, according to court filings in the Chavez case.

    “I wonder how much this moron will pay,” Plasencia texted Chavez, according to court filings from prosecutors.

    The pair who practised in California met up the same day and exchanged at least four vials of ketamine, the filings said.

    After selling the drugs to Perry for $4,500 (£3,314), Plasencia allegedly asked Chavez if he could keep supplying them so they could become Perry’s “go-to” prosecutors said.

    Chavez has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine to Perry.

    Perry struggled with addiction for years, dating back to his time on Friends, when he became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing.

    He starred alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004.


    Sources

    Doctor who helped supply Matthew Perry ketamine pleads guilty to drug charge – WBAL-TV

    Matthew Perry death: Inside Hollywood’s ketamine obsession – BBC

    Dr Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to charges of distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry, potentially facing 40 years in prison.
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