Authorities in the U.S. have charged five people in connection with the death of “Friends” star Mathew Perry who died in October from a ketamine overdose.
Perry’s assistant and two doctors are among the people charged in what prosecutors said was an underground criminal network that helped supply the actor with the powerful surgical anesthetic that killed him.
Announcing the charges on Thursday U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said doctors preyed on Perry’s history of addiction in the final months of his life.
He accused the doctors of giving Perry ketamine in amounts they knew were dangerous.
Estrada said. “They knew what they were doing was risking great danger to Mr. Perry. But they did it anyway.”
Iwamasa, Perry’s former assistant, found the actor face down in his hot tub at his Los Angeles home on 28 October 2023.
Paramedics were called and they declared him dead.
An autopsy report shows that actor Matthew Perry died of ‘acute effects’ of ketamine.
