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From Associated Press via USVI News: Matthew Perry's personal assistant has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in the drug death of the “Friends” star. Sixty-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa received the sentence in a Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday. Iwamasa The a.
Matthew Perry’s assistant gets more than 3 years in prison for central role in his ketamine death
Kenneth Iwamasa, one of five people who pleaded guilty in the ketamine overdose death of actor Matthew Perry, looks away as his attorney, Alan Eisner, talks to reporters after Iwamasa’s sentencing in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Matthew Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, left, and Keith Morrison, arrive at federal court for the sentencing of Kenneth Iwamasa, one of five people who pleaded guilty in connection with the ketamine overdose death of the actor, in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Matthew Perry’s stepfather, Keith Morrison, left, talks to reporters after the sentencing of Kenneth Iwamasa, one of five people who pleaded guilty in connection with the ketamine overdose death of the actor, in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Kenneth Iwamasa, one of five people who pleaded guilty in the ketamine overdose death of actor Matthew Perry, leaves federal court after his sentencing in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Matthew Perry poses for a portrait in New York on Feb. 17, 2015. (Photo by Brian Ach/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the “Friends” actor’s descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with a fatal dose of the drug, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in prison, bringing an end to the legal saga surrounding the death of one of the biggest TV stars of his generation.
“You were privy to his struggle with addiction,” said Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, who handed down the sentence to the 60-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa in federal court in Los Angeles. “Your conduct was reckless, not just on the day of his death but in the days leading up to his death.”
Iwamasa was the last person sentenced of the five who pleaded guilty in the investigation and prosecution that followed Perry’s death at age 54 on Oct. 28, 2023. The group included corrupt doctors and a major street dealer, “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha, whose 15-year sentence was the only one longer than Iwamasa’s.
The assistant was constantly at Perry’s side in his final days, acting as the actor’s enabler, drug messenger and de facto doctor. He was the last person to see Perry alive, and he was the one who found him dead in his Jacuzzi. He would eventually become prosecutors’ most important informant.
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