Three people have pleaded guilty to charges associated with Perry's death (California doctor Mark Chavez, Perry's personal assistant, and a friend described by authorities as a "street dealer") with two others currently scheduled to face trial in the future. These men and women ranged from personal assistants to doctors who prescribed the ketamine that was found in Perry's body after his death.

"What I'm hoping is that people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that will kill them — they are now on notice, no matter what your professional credentials are — you're going down,"

"I am a very lucky woman," Suzanne said. "But there was one glitch, there was one problem that I couldn't… I couldn't conquer it. I couldn't help him."

"incredibly remorseful" and is "doing everything in his power to cooperate and help with this situation."

"People would be aware of this investigation, they'd be aware of the charges, and it would be made public and it would serve notice to anybody who was in a position to be an enabler: you better not do it. Because the price, if you do, may be very high indeed."

“Even when he was struggling in dark times, we were always proud of him,” Caitlin Morrison said. “We were always proud of the fact that he kept fighting and that he made it a big focus of his life to help other people.”

“It was always a jubilant thing when he would come over,” his sister Caitlin Morrison recalled. “All he wanted was to love and to be loved,” Emily Morrison, another sister, added.

Long known as a club drug, ketamine is increasingly used to treat people with depression and other mental health issues but carries serious medical risks and can be fatal if abused.

His death was ruled accidental.

This included a near-death experience in 2019 after his colon burst as a result of opioid use. In total, he spent some $7 million on rehabilitation and recovery efforts, Perry wrote in the book.

The actor's family, which includes his mother, Suzanne Morrison, and his stepfather, Keith Morrison, said in a statement Thursday that they are "heartbroken by Matthew's death, but it has helped to know law enforcement has taken his case very seriously. We look forward to justice taking its course."

Sangha also pleaded not guilty during her arraignment on Thursday, appearing in a green Nirvana sweatshirt with purple hair and shackles on her feet.

"Nevertheless, he continued to offer ketamine to Mr. Perry," Estrada said.

"revealed a broad, underground criminal network responsible for distributing large quantities of ketamine to Mr. Perry and others."

"The Ketamine Queen"

Friends

“I decided to create TeliMedi as a way to improve my access to patients that needed immediate care,

He describes his role as “helping his clients obtain optimum health and longevity through personalized coaching,” the website states.

wamasa had “various responsibilities” related to Perry’s medical care, including scheduling medical appointments and making sure he took “lawfully prescribed” medication, the court documents state.

Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing on “Friends,” died in October 2023 at age 54 because of “acute effects of ketamine” and subsequent drowning, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office autopsy report.

supplied him with the drug that would ultimately kill him.

At the height of his fame, Perry was battling with addiction to painkillers and alcohol, and attended rehabilitation on multiple occasions. He detailed his struggle with substance use in his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.

Prosecutors said Perry's assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, worked with two doctors to provide the actor with more than $50,000 (£38,000) of ketamine in the weeks before his death.

A post-mortem examination found a high concentration of the drug ketamine in his blood and determined the "acute effects" of the controlled substance had killed him.Advertisement

He is "incredibly remorseful", his lawyer said

Prosecutors said he “provided a falsified document purportedly showing the medical treatment plan for Victim M.P.” that claimed he was being given a maximum dose of 60 milligrams over 24 hours.

Mr. Perry wrote about his history of drug and alcohol addiction in a memoir. Officials declined to explain whether the ketamine treatment he initially received was legitimate and would not say how he became connected to Dr. Plasencia and Dr. Chavez.

If they are convicted, Ms. Sangha, 41, faces between 10 years and life in prison while Dr. Plasencia, 42, faces up to 10 years in prison for each ketamine-related count and up to 20 years for each count of falsifying records.

“If you are in the business of selling dangerous drugs, we will hold you accountable for the deaths that you cause.”

injected him with at least 27 shots of ketamine in the five days leading up to his death, including at least three on the day he died.

Wednesday detailed grand jury charges against Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said was known as “the Ketamine Queen,” and Dr. Salvador Plasencia, known as “Dr. P.”

The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office said in an autopsy report

The actor, who gained sitcom superstardom as Chandler Bing on “Friends,”

Matthew Perry’s personal assistant, two doctors and two others have been indicted and charged with providing the ketamine that caused the death of Mr. Perry, a star on the television show “Friends,” the authorities said on Thursday.

In his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” Perry recounted his lifelong struggle with addiction to alcohol and opioids.

“He’s been redoing this house forever and he seemed fine. It’s very sad.”

“We are devastated by the passing of our dear friend Matthew Perry,” Warner Bros. Television Group, which produced “Friends,” said in a statement to The Times.

“cause of death may not be known for some time, but at this point foul play is not suspected.”

No drugs were found at the scene, sources said, but a source told The Times prescription medications were recovered at the home and hence toxicology will be part of the investigation

discovered unresponsive

“Friends” star

Although the pair’s joint trial was set to begin on March 4, 2025, per Variety, a February 2025 filing acquired by The Times showed that the judge agreed to push Sangha and Plascenscia's trial to Aug. 19.

“were more interested in profiting off Mr. Perry than caring for his well being.”

But in the months following his death, Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, and stepfather, Keith Morrison, opened up about how Perry’s passing — while heartbreaking — had a sense of “inevitability.”

had been receiving ketamine infusion therapy, which the National Institute of Health has studied for its potential mental health benefits. His last treatment occurred “one and a half weeks” before his death

“broad underground criminal network responsible for delivering a large quantity of ketamine to Matthew Perry and others.”

“I say in the book that if I did die, it would shock people, but it wouldn't surprise anybody. And that's a very scary thing to be living with.”

Perry's multiple near-death experiences, including a five-month hospital stay in 2018, left Perry “grateful to be alive.”

The NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters from March 7-11 via a mix of telephone interviews and an online survey sent via text message. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points

Thirty-six percent of registered voters identified themselves as MAGA supporters in the March NBC News poll. It’s a significant increase from past NBC News polling — up from 23% of respondents in a merged sample of all of NBC News’ polling across 2023 and 27% of respondents in a merged sample of NBC News’ 2024 polling.

"But whatever. Moving on, we got a new show. We got Jack Black this week. We're here talking about GERD. We will be fine."

"Get me to God's country"

And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was just like, oh wow, that was pretty visible. You know what I'm saying? It was a pretty visible thing."

"I'm not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, but we weren't surprised because Prince was notoriously kind of standoffish. It's just how he was

"Seems like a complicated individual, I guess,

Kenan Thompson calls Morgan Wallen's SNL early exit 'spike in the norm':

The clip, which came out last year, is now making headlines as more and more of Reynolds and wife Blake Lively’s interviews and actions are under scrutiny due to their lawsuit against actor Justin Baldoni.

WOW! Disgusting.”

“I thought it was very crude in the movie having those words come out of a little kid and now, knowing that was his OWN child he put that kind of pressure on her or he would find another child actor to say it for the scene…That is sooo disturbing,”

“not been transparent” about what it is doing and not done enough to “convince me that these specific remedies are called for”.

antisemitic incidents on Columbia’s campus during anti-Israel protests, and that the university had mishandled them in a “clear violation” of federal anti-discrimination law.

the first amendment still guarantees universities the right to shape their own expressive communities, and many of the demands that the administration is making would intrude on that right.”

effort to block a US Department of Education ultimatum calling for colleges and universities to cancel campus diversity initiatives or risk losing federal funding.

sent a letter to 60 schools warning that they are under investigation for discriminating against Jewish students; and arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia student who led pro-Palestinian protests, under an obscure provision that gives the US secretary of state the power to deport foreign nationals whose presence in the US has “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”.

Many of the demands that the Trump administration is making are not lawful, Jameel Jaffer told the Guardian. Jaffer, who said that he did not speak for the university, is the executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia

Other colleges and universities across the US have been watching to see how Columbia reacts to the letter, which is widely viewed as a test case for academic freedom.