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Matthew Perry’s Ketamine Death: Second Doctor Agrees to Plead Guilty


A second doctor has agreed to plead guilty over his role in Matthew Perry's 2023 ketamine death, prosecutors said Monday.

The “lead” doctor charged in connection with Matthew Perry ’s 2023 ketamine overdose death has agreed to a plea deal, prosecutors announced Monday. “[Plascencia] essentially acted as a street-corner drug dealer peddling a dangerous substance to somebody he knew was addicted,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Ian Yanniello said last year at Plasencia’s arraignment in downtown Los Angeles. Perry, an actor best-known for playing Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom Friends, died on Oct. 28, 2023, at the age of 54 from the acute effects of ketamine, his autopsy determined.

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