Matthew Perry's personal assistant sentenced to three years in prison for the actor's death

Matthew Perry's former personal assistant, Matthew Perry, Kenneth Iwamasa, was sentenced this Wednesday by a Los Angeles judge to three years and five months in federal prison for injecting the Friends actor with multiple doses of ketamine, the drug that caused his death on October 28, 2023.

Justice determines that the accused will also have to serve two years of supervised probation and pay a fine of $10,000 (approximately 8,500 euros) to the U.S. government, according to NBC News. Iwamasa confessed last August, after his arrest, to having been directly responsible for administering ketamine doses to Perry in his final weeks of life, and even injected him with the substance "repeatedly without medical training" on the day of his death, according to the prosecution.

The prosecution maintains that Dr. Salvador Plasencia, one of the five individuals involved in his death, instructed Iwamasa to "inject ketamine into Perry," and left him vials for him to self-administer without the proper safety equipment.

With this conviction, California justice puts a definitive end to the case of the interpreter's death. Besides the assistant, justice had previously convicted Jasveen Sangha, known as the ketamine queen; doctors Plasencia and Mark Chavez, and Erik Fleming, who coordinated the arrival of the drug to the actor's house.

Perry, popularly known for his character Chandler Bing in the series Friends, had spoken publicly about his struggle with addiction in his memoir Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing: A memoir (2022).