Matthew Perry’s assistant will get 41 months in jail for central position in his ketamine dying | World Information
2 min learnLos AngelesCould 28, 2026 12:35 AM IST
Matthew Perry’s live-in private assistant, who had a central position within the “Pals” star’s descent into ketamine dependancy and injected him with the deadly dose of the drug, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years and 5 months in jail.
Choose Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence to 60-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa in federal court docket in Los Angeles. He was additionally sentenced to 2 years of probation and a $10,000 superb.
It was the fifth and last sentencing within the 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution that adopted Perry’s dying at age 54 on Oct. 28, 2023.
Iwamasa was at Perry’s facet by way of the ultimate days of his life, appearing because the actor’s enabler, drug messenger and de facto physician. He was the final particular person to see Perry alive, and he was the one who discovered him lifeless in his Jacuzzi.
He was the primary particular person to achieve a cope with prosecutors, pleading responsible in August of 2024 to at least one depend of conspiracy to distribute ketamine leading to dying, and have become their most vital witness.
Iwamasa’s legal professionals stated in a court docket submitting that he was an worker doing his employer’s bidding and had a “specific vulnerability” in his relationship to Perry. “Briefly, he couldn’t ‘merely say no.’ That incapability had tragic penalties.”
