• By Tanya Garg
  • Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:02 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

Matthew Perry Death: A US-based doctor who pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawfully providing actor Matthew Perry with ketamine in the weeks preceding the FRIENDS' actor's death in 2023 might now receive 40 years in prison. Prosecutors announced Monday that the 'lead' doctor who is suspected of the actor's death from a ketamine overdose has agreed to a plea deal, Variety reported.

Dr Salvador Plasencia acknowledged giving him 20 ketamine vials, lozenges, and syringes illegally beginning about one month prior to Matthew Perry's, as per court documents. Additionally, the doctor taught actor Kenneth Iwamasa, his assistant, on how to administer the medicine and made two house calls to personally inject the celebrated actor.

The plea documents state that another patient put Dr Salvador in touch with Matthew Perry. Later, he asked Mark Chavez, another doctor, to assist him in getting more ketamine. The two exchange text messages in which Plasencia calls Perry a 'moron' and talks about how much money they could get out of him.

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Dr. Salvador, a resident of Santa Monica, California, is one of five individuals charged with Matthew's death. Three other defendants, including another doctor, agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation. The ketamine that killed Matthew Perry was distributed by an underground network of drug suppliers and dealers, according to the prosecutors.

The deadly dose that killed Perry is allegedly delivered by Jasveen Sangha, the lone defendant still awaiting a plea agreement. Having entered a not guilty plea, she is still in custody pending trial. Plasencia had agreed to enter a guilty plea before Sangha's trial, which was set for August.

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Matthew Perry, who became well-known throughout the world for playing Chandler Bing on FRIENDS battled drug addiction for many years. According to several media reports, he had been lawfully taking ketamine as an off-label treatment for depression from a licensed doctor before beginning to look for more dosages from other sources.