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Matthew Perry's assistant jailed for role in Friends actor's death

Matthew Perry's assistant played a key role in the star's ketamine addiction.  (Reuters: Phil McCarten, file photo)

Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant has been sentenced three years and five months in prison.

Kenneth Iwamasa had a central role in the Friends star's descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal dose of the drug

It was the fifth and final sentencing in the two-and-a-half year investigation and prosecution that followed Perry's death at age 54.

Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in the Friend's star's death.

Assistant who injected Matthew Perry with ketamine sentenced to over three years

Kenneth Iwamasa pleaded guilty over role in Friends actor’s death from drug overdose in 2023

The personal assistant who injected Matthew Perry with ketamine several times with no medical training, including on the day the Friends actor was found dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles residence, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison on Wednesday.

Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, had pleaded guilty to distributing ketamine that resulted in death or serious bodily injury. The sentence handed down to him matched what prosecutors requested.

Iwamasa’s sentencing will cap the criminal investigation into the five people authorities say played a role in Perry’s overdose death in 2023.

Perry's assistant sentenced to 41 months in prison

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A personal assistant who injected Friends star Matthew Perry with a fatal dose of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine has been sentenced ‌to three years and five months in federal prison, bringing to a close the prosecution of five people who ‌admitted to playing roles in the actor's death.

Judge Sherilyn Garnett delivered the 41-month sentence for Kenneth Iwamasa, the person ‌who found Perry floating face down and lifeless in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home in October 2023.

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