Matthew Perry‘s former assistant is going to prison.
Kenneth Iwamasa, the 60-year-old former live-in employee of the late Friends star, pleaded guilty in 2024 to drug distribution charges in connection to the actor’s death a year prior.
He received a sentencing of over three years in prison Wednesday (May 27), marking the fifth person sentenced in connection to the death, per CBS News.
He was sentenced to three years and five months in prison, two years of probation and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine after entering his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine.
He had been accused to purchasing and injecting Matthew with ketamine, including the fatal shots that led to his death.
Kenneth was the one who found Matthew in his backyard hot tub.
As for the other four involved: Salvador Plasencia, one of the doctors who pleaded guilty to distributing ketamine, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. The second doctor, Mark Chavez, was sentenced to three years of supervised release, with eight months of home confinement and 300 hours of community service. Jasveen Sangha, nicknamed the “Ketamine Queen,” was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to supplying the drugs. Erik Fleming, who pled guilty to delivering the drugs, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and then three years on supervised release after his prison term.
The actor, best known for his beloved performance as Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom Friends, died suddenly on October 28, 2023 at the age of 54. It was initially reported that he drowned in a jacuzzi, until it was later ruled in his toxicology report that he died of “acute effects of ketamine.”
One of his co-stars revealed they find comfort in watching reruns of their old show together.
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