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Matthew Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, was sentenced Wednesday by a Los Angeles judge to three years and five months in federal prison for injecting the‘Friends’<\/a> star with several doses of ketamine, the drug that caused his death.<\/p>\n

The court ruled that the defendant must also serve two years of supervised probation and pay a $10,000 fine to the U.S. government, NBC News reported.<\/p>\n

Iwamasa confessed last August, after his arrest, to having been directly responsible for administering the doses of ketamine to the actor in his last weeks of life, going so far as to inject him with the substance “repeatedly without medical training, including multiple injections” on the day of his death, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.<\/p>\n

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The indictment alleges that physician Salvador Plasencia, one of the five people implicated in the U.S. celebrity’s death, instructed Iwamasa to “inject Perry with ketamine,” leaving him vials to self-administer without proper safety equipment.<\/p>\n

After this conviction, the California justice system has definitively closed the case of the death of the interpreter, which implicated Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen”, doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, as well as Erik Fleming, who coordinated the arrival of the ketamine to the celebrity’s house.<\/p>\n

Perry, popularly known for his character of Chandler Bing in the ‘Friends’ series, had spoken publicly about his struggle with addictions in his memoir ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir’ (2022), Agencia EFE reported.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, was sentenced Wednesday by a Los Angeles judge to three years and five months in federal prison for injecting the‘Friends’ star with several doses of ketamine, the drug that caused his death. 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