A California doctor has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after admitting to supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star's death last year.
Salvador Plasencia 44 became the first of five people convicted in connection with Perry's 2023 overdose to be handed a prison term.
Plasencia, who ran an urgent care clinic in Calabasas, pleaded guilty in July to four counts of distributing ketamine . He did not administer the fatal dose himself, but prosecutors argued his actions contributed to the chain of events that led to Perry's death in October 2023, at age 54. Perry was found unresponsive in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home, with an autopsy confirming acute ketamine effects as the cause of death.
