Matthew Perry’s assistant sentenced to three years and five months for actor’s ketamine death

Matthew Perry’s personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, who helped to administer ketamine to the actor, was sentenced to three years and five months behind bars.

Iwamasa looked stoic and wore a grey suit with a white shirt and grey tie with long grey tie as his fate was revealed by the judge.

Perry’s stepfather, Keith Morrison and his estate manager both gave very dramatic victim impact statements during the hearing — Iwamasa appeared to be on the verge of tears as Morrison spoke.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Iwamasa to three years and five months behind bars after he pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death in August 2024. Iwamasa cooperated with investigators throughout their investigation into the actor’s death.

Iwamasa marks the last person in the actor’s death saga to be sentenced — he will be taken into custody on July 17 to begin his sentence.

Perry’s mom, Suzanne, and stepfather, Keith Morrison, were both in attendance for the sentencing.

Suzanne submitted an emotional victim impact statement, reminding the court of what she saw on the tragic October 2023 night her son died. “Matthew trusted Kenny. We trusted Kenny,” she said.

“Kenny’s most important job — by far — was to be my son’s companion and guardian in his fight against addiction. We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price.”

“One night he was just a body, lying all but naked on the cold damp grass of his backyard. Helicopters circled overhead, eager for a glimpse of my dead little boy,” she wrote in the letter obtained by The California Post.

“I stood out on the street in the cold and begged for a blanket to cover him. Impossible, of course,” she added.

She then described her horrific trip to the morgue to see her once vibrant son, “He had been bathed and dressed and he looked almost beautiful and somehow relieved, like a gladiator who has finally earned his rest.” Morrison wrote.

Erik Fleming, 56, had pleaded guilty in connection with Perry’s overdose and was sentenced to two years on May 12.

Fleming, a former Hollywood producer and director, introduced Perry to “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha two weeks before the actor’s shocking death.

Sangha was sentenced last month to 15 years behind bars for her role in the actor’s fatal overdose.

Sangha told the court she took full responsibility for her crimes, adding she had the “rug of life ripped out” from under her.

At Sangha’s April 8 sentencing, Perry’s mother Suzanne and stepfather Keith Morrison appeared in court to address the convicted drug dealer.

“I feel bad for you, Miss Sangha. I don’t hate you. … You are a drug dealer,” Morrison told the court, fighting back tears.

He called Perry a brilliant and talented man, adding he should have “had another act.”

Mark Chavez, 55, was hit with eight months of home confinement by a Los Angeles federal judge on December 16 after he admitted in October to supplying 22 vials and nine lozenges of powerful medical anesthesia ketamine to the actor — despite knowing his struggles with drug addiction.

Dr Salvador Plasencia, 43, who was sentenced to two and a half years on December 3 for his role in Perry’s overdose.

Plasencia told Chavez how he once injected Perry “in the back seat of a car parked at a public parking lot of an aquarium in Long Beach, Calif.,” and Chavez “reprimanded Plasencia” for “dosing him” in a public place where kids were, prosecutors wrote. 

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