Courts and Crime
Kenneth Iwamasa "fed" Perry 70 vials of ketamine in the month before he died, including at least three injections on the day he died, prosecutors said
Matthew Perry’s live-in assistant was sentenced Tuesday to three years and five months in prison for injecting the Friends star with at least three shots of ketamine and leaving him alone in his backyard jacuzzi before he was found face down in the water on Oct. 28, 2023.
The assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, had pleaded guilty in August 2024 to a single count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death. The last of five co-defendants to be sentenced in the high-profile case, he had asked for six months in prison and six months of home detention. Prosecutors recommended the 41-month sentence, saying that punishment reflected both the “life-ending harm” Iwamasa caused and the “significant cooperation” he later provided to investigators.
“What you are is the monster who killed him,” Perry’s longtime business manager and estate executor, Lisa Ferguson, said in a dramatic victim impact statement delivered from a podium as Iwamasa watched her from just feet away. She accused Iwamasa of knowingly preying on a drug addict to live a luxury lifestyle at Perry’s house. She said he repeatedly lied to the family, took photos as Perry’s remains were interred in a wall at his funeral, demanded three years of his $150,000 salary as severance, and sued the estate with a workers’ compensation claim. “Matthew deserved to live. You don’t.”
