The doctor suspected having exploded the addiction to Matthew Perry Ketamine, the series of the series FriendsBefore his death due to overdose in 2023, he accepted an agreement to declare himself guilty, according to the office of the Federal Prosecutor of California.
The main doctor prosecuted in this case, Salvador Plasencia plans to declare himself guilty of ethétamine distribution “in the coming weeks,” said the Prosecutor’s Office in a statement on Monday.
This risks up to “40 years in prison.”
A second Los Angeles doctor, Mark Chávez, already admitted to having contributed illegally to provide the actor and risks up to 10 years in prison.
The death of Matthew Perry, found unconscious in his jacuzzi in October 2023, had shocked fans of Friends And he woke up a rain of tributes to Hollywood.
The actor had talked publicly about his addiction problems.
I was taking ketamine in a supervised way in the context of depression therapy. But this legal anesthesia sometimes deviates for stimulating or euphoric purposes, and fell to addiction in the fall of 2023, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.
“Unscrupulous” doctors
A relapse that pushed him to the claws of the “unscrupulous” doctors, according to the authorities.
It is suspected that Dr. Salvador Plasencia has played a central role in this case, even if he did not provide the ketamine that killed the actor.
According to the investigation, it was he who organized “the exploitation” of the sick actor.
“I wonder how much this fool will pay,” he wrote in September 2023, in a SMS exhumed by researchers.
The agreement to declare himself guilty published on Monday by the Prosecutor’s Office emphasizes that Mr. Plasencia was supplied with doctor Chávez, and moved to Matthew Perry’s house to inject Ketamine, or provide the star assistant.
In total, Mr. Plasencia “distributed twenty bottles” of Ketamine to the actor during a fortnight in the fall of 2023, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The authorities previously explained that the Ketamine bottles were around $ 12 to the doctors involved, but “$ 2,000” were sold to the actor.
Five suspects are prosecuted for their participation in the death of Mr. Perry.
The other defendant in the center of the archive is Jasveen Sangha, a deeleuse known in Hollywood as the “Queen of Ketamine.”
This 41-year-old American-British-British sold the Ketamine bottle that killed the actor and risk the prison for life. She declares himself not guilty.
Matthew Perry’s personal assistant and an intermediary agreed to declare himself guilty.
“It should be dead”
True cultural phenomenon, the series Friends The transmission between 1994 and 2004 marked a whole generation of spectators, narrating the adventures of a band of happy friends in New York.
But behind the scene, Matthew Perry has long hidden an discomfort behind his Jovial character in Chandler. For a long time he had fought against his addiction to medication and alcohol.
In his memoirs published in 2022, he said he followed 65 retirement sessions, spending more than nine million dollars.
He had also undergone several surgical operations linked to his drug addiction problems, including an intervention for seven hours at the colon level in 2018, saying: “It should be dead.”
During an appearance on television shortly before his death, the actor had surprised the audience admitting that he had suffered great anxiety “every night” during the filming of Friends.
Source: BFM TV
