Posted on 05/28/2026 4:08:21 AM PDT by Libloather
LOS ANGELES — The personal live-in assistant for “Friends” star Matthew Perry was sentenced on Wednesday to 41 months in prison for repeatedly injecting the actor with ketamine, including the fatal dose that killed him in October 2023.
Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, of Toluca Lake, California, had pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence in U.S. federal court in Los Angeles, CNN reported. She also sentenced him to two years of probation and tacked on a $10,000 fine.
“You were privy to his struggle with addiction,” Garnett told Iwamasa as she handed down the sentence. “Your conduct was reckless, not just on the day of his death but leading up to his death.”
Iwamasa, who was paid $150,000 annually working for Perry, admitted that he repeatedly injected Perry with ketamine without medical training, according to the Los Angeles Times. That included multiple injections on Oct. 28, 2023, which was the day Perry died.
Iwamasa, who had known Perry since 1992, was the last of five defendants sentenced in the case, according to The New York Times. The sentence handed down for Iwamasa was what prosecutors had sought.
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No problem. The POS is in CONgre$$
Right? The story about AOC’s ketamine use has been stifled. Does she have a serious mental condition warranting ketamine treatment? I bet she is bipolar subject to rages and anxiety attacks. Real presidential timber there.
> No word on her current condition. <
Looks like her handlers are taking a page from the Biden’s playbook: Say little. Manage your client carefully.
Side note: In many polls, AOC is right behind Newsom for the 2028 D presidential nomination. Are Democrat voters that dumb? I guess they are.
The story about AOC’s ketamine use has been stifled.
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Imagine how the press would treat a Republican in her situation.
I am conflicted about this sentence and ultimately come down on the side that its too harsh. The assistant is being scape-goated. Did he do it? Sure. But he did it because Perry told him to do it. He was Perry’s assistant and did whatever Perry told him to do. Perry was a raging addict who put the assistant in all kinds of compromising and risky situations to keep his job. Could the assistant have said no and quit? Sure. But that is easy to say from a distance. I guess I just don’t like the prosecutor and press turning Perry into the victim and everyone else into the villain. Perry was the villain in this story. So was the doctor. This assistant did not have clean hands but was more of a victim than Perry. He should have gotten probation.
ketamine can be an extremely dangerous drug when administered in larger doses outside of a medical setting ... the main problem is that ketamine almost always causes blood pressure to skyrocket, and if that issue isn’t addressed at the time and/or the user had pre-existing hypertension, then the results can be absolutely catastrophic, i.e., death ...
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