Matthew Perry’s Ketamine Overdose Death Exposed in Dark Case of Price Gouging
Matthew Perry, the American actor who became a star with his role as Chandler Bing in the hit TV drama “Friends,” drowned in his swimming pool in Los Angeles last October. In the case in which a large amount of the anesthetic “ketamine” was found in the body of the deceased, the following people were arrested: doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chaves; Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry’s personal assistant of 25 years, who lived in his house; drug dealer Eric Fleming; and drug dealer and “ketamine queen” Jasveen Sangha, were indicted by August 15 (local time).
The shocking new revelation that a personal assistant injected Mr. Perry with ketamine three times on the day of his death and the actual trafficking route of the “Queen of Ketamine” against celebrities came to light, causing a stir.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said at a press conference,
“Mr. Perry had fallen back into drug addiction, and the defendants were taking advantage of that to line their own pockets,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office pointed out at a press conference.
The defendants took advantage of the situation to line their pockets.
At the height of his popularity, Perry battled addiction to painkillers and alcohol, and had checked himself into rehab several times. In the past, he once stated, “I spent $1.3 billion to beat my alcoholism.
The five were indicted on charges including illegal provision of ketamine. According to “Page Six,” Dr. Plasencia faces up to 20 years in prison, while Sangha faces more than 10 years in prison and possibly life in prison.
The massive ketamine case that preyed on Mr. Perry and then sent him to his death has taken a shocking turn.
Matthew Perry was found dead in the Jacuzzi of his Los Angeles home on October 28, ’23, at age 54. A plea agreement from his personal assistant Iwamasa revealed details of the date of Mr. Perry’s death.
At Ms. Perry’s direction, Iwamasa injected Ms. Perry with one dose of ketamine at approximately 8:30 a.m. on the day of her death, and a second dose at 12:45 p.m. About 40 minutes later, Ms. Perry asked Iwamasa to “get the Jacuzzi ready,
give me a big one.”
He asked her to give him a “big one.
Iwamasa did as Ms. Perry asked, injected the third dose of ketamine, and then left the house to run an errand. When he returned home, he found that Mr. Perry had
face into the Jacuzzi and died.”
Iwamasa said. Iwamasa jumped into the Jacuzzi, pulled Ms. Perry out, and called the police. Paramedics arrived and confirmed that she was dead.
Toxicology tests revealed a large amount of ketamine in Ms. Perry’s system. The cause of death was ultimately determined to be accidental, including other factors such as drowning, overstimulation of the cardiovascular system, and respiratory depression caused by ketamine.
Doctors Plasencia, Chavez, and Iwamasa arranged for Perry to receive 20 vials of ketamine for $55,000 (about $8 million) between September and October ’23. The doctors sold the vials of ketamine to Ms. Perry for $2,000 (about $295,000) after buying them for about $12 (about $1,800).
As obtaining ketamine from the doctors became more expensive, Ms. Perry began to obtain the drug more cheaply and more quickly from Jasveen Sangha, the “queen of ketamine,” and Fleming, a drug trafficker.
Sangha supplied Perry with about 50 vials of ketamine in a two-week period in October ’23. Sangha allegedly worked with Fleming and Iwamasa to sell the ketamine to Ms. Perry and made approximately $11,000 (approximately $1,623,500).
One of Sangha’s celebrity clients was Ariana Grande’s former lover, rapper Mac Miller, who died suddenly of a drug overdose at the age of 26 at his home in Studio City, California, in September ’18.
There are also said to be top-secret drug trafficking routes used by addicted stars like rock musician Tom Petty, who died of a drug overdose in October ’17. Tom allegedly died from an overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
Perry’s ketamine case, which made us feel anew the horror of drug addiction, has brought up “drug situations” common to the Japanese entertainment industry, such as the existence of drug trafficking routes targeting stars whose incomes are off the charts.
On the other hand, the anesthetic “propofol” that took Michael Jackson’s life, Prince’s overdose death from fentanyl, a narcotic painkiller, and Robert De Niro’s grandson Leandro’s overdose death from fentanyl, a powerful anesthetic and painkiller used for medical purposes such as painkillers and surgical anesthesia, are The death of Robert De Niro’s grandson, Leandro, from an overdose of “fentanyl,” a powerful anesthetic and painkiller used as a painkiller and surgical anesthetic for medical purposes, once again brought to light the dark side of the illegal trafficking of hard drugs in the United States.
If medical anesthetics and painkillers, which are even more dangerous than marijuana and stimulants, are trafficked and distributed as narcotics in Japan, it is inevitable that celebrities will be arrested and even killed, and it will be necessary to take new measures.
Writer: Ryo Sakamoto (Writer, former head of the Culture and Society Department of Tokyo Sports Newspaper) PHOTO: Reuters/Afro